WindowBlinds 5.5 is the first version of the software to officially support Windows Vista, and is, more or less, the only game in town at the moment for users who want to really tweak the look of their Windows Vista system. This attracted the attention of prominent technology site,
ExtremeTech, which ran a rather detailed review of WindowBlinds titled "A Face-lift for Vista?" The review covers the application usability, functionality, little gotchas, as well as a few of the outstanding skins you can use to transform how your Vista PC looks and feels. It even covers that often overlooked feature of per-application settings!
Here's a clip from the larger review:
Incompatibilities were rare, however, and, more importantly, performance tests showed that WindowBlinds didn't hinder performance in games, or in encoding, at all. Stopwatch tests showed that applications such as Internet Explorer and Windows Mail loaded just as quickly with WindowBlinds loaded as they did with it unloaded. I'm not publishing result graphs because there's nothing to see; frame rates and 3DMark scores were consistent before and after installing WindowBlinds.
Overall, ExtremeTech gave WindowBlinds 5.5 on Vista an impressive 9/10 score. Be sure to check out the review at the link below and give them your own feedback and thoughts in the comments.