WindowBlinds 6.1 Now Available

Published on May 7, 2008 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Stardock is excited to announce the release of WindowBlinds 6.1 today. WindowBlinds is the easiest, and safest way to change the complete look and feel of both Windows Vista and XP by applying one of thousands of visual styles that are available.

These visual styles can change just about every element of the Windows user interface from the Start menu, task bar, title bar, push buttons, scrollbars, and nearly everything else in Windows.

The WindowBlinds 6.1 update is available to current customers as a free update, and users can upgrade either through Stardock Central or the Impulse preview. The WindowBlinds 6.1 release includes the following updates:

Several maintenance and performance tweaks.
Option to force start button to the middle of skins.
Explorer background feature.

The Explorer Background feature allows users to change the background of their explorer, along with the background color and opacity. There are 30 different background textures to choose from, including a "no texture" option that lets you set just the color and transparency of the Explorer background.

WindowBlinds has a free download available for evaluation, and is $19.95 for the full enhanced version. WindowBlinds is also part of the Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements.

Link: WindowBlinds

Comments (Page 1)

SteveGosselin

on May 07, 2008

Bug not fixed > JZC-975647

messiah1

on May 07, 2008

Option to force start button to the middle of skins.

So the startbutton can be set to the middle of the taskbar??

JavaFiend

on May 07, 2008

I am glad I am not the only one confused by that statement

angus1949

on May 07, 2008

Transparency can't be reset in XP??? I changed hue and saturation and then applied...nothing happens??? Using newest .81 version.

ALMonty

on May 07, 2008

Option to force start button to the middle of skins.

If that's what it means it doesn't work. Maybe a little clarification.

Wet Monkey

on May 07, 2008

I have been having another problem with WB for quite awhile now. On my my laptop, running XP every time I right click on the task bar, or click on a pull down menu, explorer crashes and then I get the white Active desktop re-activation page and mu current background disappears. I know his is related directly to WindowsBlinds because as soon as I un-install WB, the problem goes away. Anyone else having this problem or does anyone know of a work around for this? I have not ben using WB because of these problems, (thought I'd give this new build a try), which can be really frustrating when yo are trying to get work done.

ZubaZ

on May 07, 2008

Make sure you reboot before posting errors.

Neil Banfield

on May 07, 2008

Wet Monkey: If you have nvidia nview enabled please try disabling it.

"Option to force start button to the middle of skins"

This means the start button can be positioned in the middle vertically on multi line taskbars as the aero orb is. The default in WB is to position this at the top of the taskbar. This is a Vista only feature. Users can force this via the advanced settings page in wbconfig, or skin authors can set it in their skins if they want the button to use this mode.

Bebi Bulma

on May 07, 2008

Was wondering about the start button thing myself. Was asking a few skinners if it would be possible to skin it so that the button is centered vertically on double task and they didn't think it was possible without a lot of work, so this is cool!

Philly0381

on May 07, 2008

The WindowBlinds 6.1 update is available to current customers as a free update, and users can upgrade either through Stardock Central or the Impulse preview.

I have switched to using Impulse for downloading updates, the WB update has not shown up there yet, it is showing up in SDC.

Do I cause myself problems by using SDC to download this update or should I just wait for it to show up in Impulse? Or because of the difference between SDC and Impulse do I all ready have the update and don't know it?

ALMonty

on May 07, 2008

All good questions. Try SDC and see if it's there.

downuoadind

Whoa that's a real bad Zubaz

Finhbar

on May 07, 2008

Working great on Vista64, thanks

Philly0381

on May 07, 2008

downuoadind

Whoa that's a real bad Zubaz

Yeah, I wonder how I was able to edit and correct it but yet you saw it AL.

vStyler

on May 07, 2008

Neil, Fantastic update. Everyone else.. I am working on a skin using the newest translucency features that looks so good, even I am surprised.

Bebi Bulma

on May 07, 2008

This is a Vista only feature.

Waaaa just noticed that.

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