WindowBlinds 4 Released!
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 by Stardock Central | Discussion: WinCustomize News
WindowBlinds 4 has some great new features including:* Command prompt skinning
* Skinning of virtually every element of the Windows XP GUI
* Skinning of the logoff, shellstyles, and please wait dialogs
* Smart painting - makes most WindowBlinds enhanced visual styles run nearly as fast as "classic"
* Enhanced integration into Windows XP greatly increasing compatibility with nearly all programs
* A new configuration program that makes the features of WindowBlinds more accessible than ever
* Settings for control of the Windows XP start bar. Now you can have a skinny start bar with any visual style
* Native integration into Remote Desktop and graphics acceleration by most video cards
These new features add to the already impressive WindowBlinds feature set that includes:
* Change the color of your visual style on the fly
* Gamma correction on visual styles
* Skinning of non-theme aware applications
* Hyperpaint - uses the extra memory in your video card to buffer to increase performance
* Additional controls in the title bar such as MP3 players, roll-up buttons, always on top buttons, minimize to tray, and much more
* Associate sound effects with title bar buttons
* Have animated title bars, buttons and more
* Powerful enhanced visual style format that allows placement of buttons any place on a window edge as well as independently sized window borders
* Much more!
Users who purchased WindowBlinds 3 since the beginning of the year can upgrade for free. Just visit https://www.stardock.com/support.asp and type in your email address.
Other users of WindowBlinds 3 can upgrade to version 4 for only $10 for a limited time.
Visit http://www.windowblinds.net/wb4upgrade.asp to upgrade.
All other users can purchase WindowBlinds 4 at: https://www.stardock.com/order.asp?product=Windowblinds for $19.95.
WindowBlinds is part of Stardock''s Object Desktop which is $49.95 and includes WindowBlinds 4 plus DesktopX, ObjectBar, IconPackager, WinStyles, and much more plus a year''s worth of updates to them.
A shareware version of WindowBlinds 4 will be released next week.
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MarkSnyder61
Reply #2 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:37 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:37 PM
I waited all day then there it was VERSION 4! I immediately downloaded from Object Desktop and I have to say that this is THE BEST VERSION so far! Keep up the great work! Hope it works well with the upcoming Longhorn?? 
balls
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:38 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:38 PM
All I get on Stardock Central is 3.99f(rc).012 which actually doen't intall..Keep getting an error at XP Jeans.
chuckyboy81070
Reply #4 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:47 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:47 PM
wow..."nearly as 'classic'"
nearly what as "classic"? goofy?
nearly what as "classic"? goofy?
chuckyboy81070
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:49 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:49 PM
please...do something about the screenshot. if i wasn't a longtime user and owner already, i'd run away as fast as i could.
AtomB
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:56 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:56 PM
very nice to come home from work and see 4.0 available in Object Desktop.
MGiff
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:02 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:02 PM
After I installed and restarted, I noticed the contrast and clarity of everything has improved. Anybody else have this happen? Overall, I really love this effect!
CoOLeRGuY
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:05 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:05 PM
awww what the heck.. i posted first and it didnt get it 
oh well! I DONT CARE because windowblinds 4 is here! wooo hooo!
oh well! I DONT CARE because windowblinds 4 is here! wooo hooo!
bordfryr
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:18 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:18 PM
Ah, yes. WB4! I almost forgot...................NOT!!!
chuckyboy81070
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:35 PM
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:35 PM
MGiff, i can't really say i noticed a clarity difference, but i noticed it's much zippier, even just over the last RC. i thought i was just giddy, but i'm almost positive it's faster. it's also nice to be able to read the text of a highlighted link.
good job folks.
good job folks.
TheSwede1970
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:43 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 8:43 PM
HUGE improvement...
Very happy customer here...
Very happy customer here...
hawkon
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 9:57 PM
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 9:57 PM
Of course there had to be some minus issues; only XP users so far 
well well ...
well well ...
Timoleon5
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 10:12 PM
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 10:12 PM
Immediately noticed a speed increase. Time & Chaos finally skins properly! Very, very well-done indeed --- worth many times the ten bucks it cost me to upgrade.
Very, very well-done indeed --- worth many times the ten bucks it cost me to upgrade.
sthrncin
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 10:42 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 10:42 PM
I love it. It works extremely good. Very fast also. 
Darkee
Reply #17 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 12:36 AM
Reply #17 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 12:36 AM
Having just purchased WB4.100, the speed differance from ver 3.4 is like going from a cycle to a high preformance car.
The skinning of the Windows XP GUI is excellent. Well done Stardock
The skinning of the Windows XP GUI is excellent. Well done Stardock
c242
Reply #18 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 1:38 AM
Reply #18 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 1:38 AM
For people having problems updtaing via SDCentral : Clearing the SDC temp-folder (C:\Program Files\Stardock\Temp) might do the trick. 
QuazziLoco
Reply #19 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 3:21 AM
Reply #19 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 3:21 AM
Congradulations This is a wonderful program. I'm going to miss installing all those betas
This is a wonderful program. I'm going to miss installing all those betas
mr.bo
Reply #20 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 4:19 AM
Reply #20 Wednesday, April 9, 2003 4:19 AM
Hmm, it seems that background (explorer) bitmaps have been disabled. I can't find it anywhere.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 7:30 PM