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 2)

S J N

on May 07, 2008

Updated through Impulse. No problems. Just Reboot after install.

zakai1369

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.

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on May 07, 2008

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.

Buy that man a new Car~!
This is one heck of nice feature Neil!

SGT

HauntingMorgana

on May 07, 2008

Tried to update twice. Restored from an image twice. Upon reboot, right click the tray icon, and the shortcut cannot be found. In fact, wb6 itself is missing. Bleh. Stick to the older release for now.

Neil Banfield

on May 07, 2008

HauntingMorgana: Did you uninstall the older build first? If so did you reboot between doing this and installing the new build? Also how are you installing (SDC, Impulse, or standalone)?

WebGizmos

on May 07, 2008

Neil....after I did the recent update and rebooted I couldn't get WB Config to open up after several tries. Just restored my system and every things back to normal. Not sure what caused that...never happened before. I didn't uninstall anything before the update and updated through SDC.

No biggy though...seems the cool updates are for vista only anyway.

HauntingMorgana

on May 07, 2008

Hello Neil- I did not uninstall the other build first. Just let sdc do the update, and it rebooted. I'm running XP though.

Wet Monkey

on May 07, 2008

Thanks much Neil, that did the trick. I should have asked this question months ago. Thanks again.

VistArtXPosed

on May 07, 2008

Does WindowBlinds 6.1 finally support Explorer Backgrounds in XP? Because although Skinstudio 6 has an explorer background feature, it fails to work in XP, and only works with Vista. I should check this out.

vStyler

on May 07, 2008

I couldn't get WB Config to open up after several tries

Happened to me too... I reinstall wb and it seems to work fine now..

zakai1369

on May 07, 2008

updated without a hitch

WebGizmos

on May 07, 2008

Happened to me too... I reinstall wb and it seems to work fine now.

Thanks V....Maybe I'll give that a try.

TYCUS

on May 08, 2008

Option to force start button to the middle of skins.

Images............, IIIMAGES PLEASE!!!!

..or i wont update

Philly0381

on May 08, 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?

The fix was to clear out the XML folder, close Impulse, restart Impulse and the WB update was there.

Bebi Bulma

on May 08, 2008

Option to force start button to the middle of skins.

Images............, IIIMAGES PLEASE!!!! ..or i wont update

Was gonna say that myself. Pics 4 proof.

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