WindowBlinds 5 BETA released
Bring Glass to Windows XP
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released the first BETA of WindowBlinds 5. WindowBlinds is a program that can completely alter the look and feel of the Windows GUI. It does so by applying visual styles (skins) to your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, borders, etc.
The most anticipated new feature of WindowBlinds 5 is its ability to deliver glass effects to Windows XP user. Technically speaking, WindowBlinds can do full alpha blended user interfaces now, that means that skins can have a variable level of transparency. Numerous new features have been added to allow skinners to do reflective effects, shadows, smooth edges and more to their WindowBlinds skins.
WindowBlinds 5 also eliminates any dedicated processes to it. When running WindowBlinds 5, no additional processes are needed anymore, it runs as part of the system. WindowBlinds 5 BETA currently requires Windows XP (32-bit edition). A 64-bit edition will be available with beta 2. It should run on any reasonably modern video card.
WindowBlinds 5 is currently only available on Object Desktop. To get Object Desktop visit: www.objectdesktop.com.
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Reply #102 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:09 PM
I'm running a Pentium D 3.0 Ghz with 1 Gig of DDR2 667Mhz Corsair RAM with the Asus Skin using an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache PCI-E Card 256 MB RAM.
All the dialog boxes that were skinned under WB4.6 were okay but not skinning under WB5. I'll attempt one more reboot then fall back to WB4.6 if it's not fixed.
Reply #103 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:33 PM
Reply #104 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:43 PM
It says in windowblinds that my drivers don't support per-pixel borders
Specs:
Win XP Home SP2
2.7GHz celeron processor
512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 7500 (catalyst 5.9)
Reply #106 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:53 PM
| It says in windowblinds that my drivers don't support per-pixel borders |
Then why not update the drivers? I'm sure ATIs website would have an updated driver for you?
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Reply #108 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 8:12 PM
Working perfectly here. My desktop is a thing of sheer beauty 
Xp Home, P4 2.66Ghz, 768Mb ram, GeForce FX-5900 77.72 drivers
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Reply #111 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 8:38 PM
Anyone experience this or have any solutions at this stage?
Reply #112 Thursday, October 6, 2005 1:36 AM
| hey laoran, I have the latest version of the drivers. |
My apologies andy
This whole thing is nuts!! I still can't make any associations with why it does and doesn't work with certain computers. Oh well, that's why we leave it to support I suppose. On another interesting note!
My brothers' computer today upgraded to WindowBlinds 5 Beta and is running as smooth and flawless as mine.
His specs are as follows:
AMD Sempron 3300+ (2GHz)
2GB RAM
ATI Raedon 9800
Windows XP Professional - SP2 installed
250GB Seagate, 300GB Maxtor
One of my finer creations.
But, he's in debt now for about 2 years. LolReply #113 Thursday, October 6, 2005 3:31 AM
ATI 7500 cards do not have the ability to use WBs per pixel frames. Sorry.
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Reply #101 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 6:57 PM