WindowBlinds 5 now available!
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released WindowBlinds 5 to the public today. WindowBlinds allows users to completely alter the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying visual styles (skins) to title bars, buttons, the Start bar, borders and more. Consumers customize nearly everything else in their environments: their cars, homes, clothing and cell phones are based on their personal preferences and needs. With WindowBlinds 5, users can now make their Windows desktops look and feel the way they want.
WindowBlinds 5 introduces a broad range of new features, including per-pixel alpha blending, resulting in smooth or glassy title bars and borders that realistically distort the content behind them; as well as the ability to change toolbar icons, progress animations and the hue and saturation of the Windows interface.
With over over 8 million users worldwide, WindowBlinds 5 is the most popular desktop-enhancement utility of all time according to CNET’s Download.com where it recently passed the 9 million download mark. It is also used by companies such as Microsoft, ATI, nVidia, Alienware, Nintendo and many others to provide custom Windows user interfaces for their customers.
WindowBlinds 5 is $19.95 as a stand-alone program or for $49.95 by purchasing Stardock’s award-winning Windows enhancement suite, Object Desktop. A shareware version of WindowBlinds is available for free download.
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Reply #62 Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:08 PM
| To be more specific right at 99% done installing windowblinds it says stardock has encountered a error and has to close..Any ideas.. |
are you downloading from the popup screen if so don't it dident work for me, say no and upload from SC it self!!!
i hope this helps
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Reply #70 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:44 AM
the skin i was applying was a vista one but not the glass one what does this pixel thing do and how do i know if it is a pixel one?
Also should be option to have that notify off. as it won't work anyway.
sorry i took a while to reply.
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Reply #75 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:56 AM
...and many thanks for WB5! Great prg.
greetz
Reply #76 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:50 AM
| c242: transparency is not left out of the shareware version. We include Aura, 5imple Alpha, Cyclops & DogMax4 which all support transparency in WB5 shareware, we just don't support it on downloaded skins. |
Okay.
Now I can give that explanation to people complaining about that.
Reply #77 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:19 AM
I want to like Window Blinds, I really do. Afterall, I spent $50 for a one year subscription to OD primarily because I wanted Windowblinds. Unfortunately, the skins all have bugs of one type or another, and I've switched both my Laptop and my Desktop back to using Shell styles from that other skinning site.
The problems I see are inconsistancies with some applications, bad font displays, buttons not rendering correctly, etc. etc.
Is there a 100% stable, everything looks and works correctly skin out there that someone can reccomend for me to try? Before I decide I wasted my money?
Reply #78 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:20 AM
I just went and tried on my nearly 2 yr old machine which has Radeon 9800 pro 256mb
the glass crap didn't work is it just the shareware version or what it suck. my other machine which is only a cheapy but only 6 months old didn't like windows blinds 5 on it it slowed it down i had uninstalled it but has left traces of a vista theme on it only the menue when you right click the desktop. And that blue highlight thing that on everything, will i have to system restore to get rid of it?
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Reply #80 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:44 AM
| I just went and tried on my nearly 2 yr old machine which has Radeon 9800 pro 256mb the glass crap didn't work is it just the shareware version or what it suck. my other machine which is only a cheapy but only 6 months old didn't like windows blinds 5 on it it slowed it down i had uninstalled it but has left traces of a vista theme on it only the menue when you right click the desktop. And that blue highlight thing that on everything, will i have to system restore to get rid of it? |
I'm running on a R9800Pro too... except 128MB here. I'm currently running Catalyst 5.9 drivers and everything looks fine on my end. My system isn't, by all means, old, but the video card is showing its age (oh Battlefield 2, how heavy you are). If any, check your drivers first and foremost.
I just installed some hours ago. Things are looking smooth so far. Stardock is gonna have a hard time trying to top this release in the next major version bump. I honestly don't see how in the world they'll be able to do it. But hey, they may... so may they surprise me and prove me wrong.
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Reply #61 Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:02 PM
Thank's again guy's for all your hard work, the $50.00 i spent i will spend again next year
I could never go back to a normal desktop again (i'm a stardock junkie now