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 4)

ALMonty

on May 11, 2008

When it rebooted, it told me it couldn't restore anything because there had been no changes to my computer

Do you have Norton antivirus? Norton has to be turned off for the system restore to work. The new Norton protects itself and doesn't allow any changes to be made. If you have Norton let me know through this thread and I'll write how to turn it off in case you need to use system restore again.

jazzymjr

on May 16, 2008

Man...this was a bear of an update! First, I updated on my laptop...went off without a hitch. So, I thought....yea! Then I did the update on my desktop...what a mess! The first go around, all I had was the original windows classic and a message that the wbconfig.exe couldn't be found. All of my skins were lost in action. I rebooted a few times to no avail. So, then I decide to restore my previous version. At, first, it wouldn't restore...but, eventually, I got it to restore. Had to reboot several times to get my blind to display properly. When all was well, I thought I would try again to update. So, I went to SDC and it showed that 6.1 was already installed...but, in wbconfig, it showed 6.03. So, I bit the bullet, and unistalled WB altogether and rebooted. Then came back to SDC, and re-installed WB. The skins were all there, so I thought..yea! Well, applied a skin, and all I got was the classic version of it. So, I rebooted again, and this time, the skin loaded properly! Whew! I sure hope Stardock takes a look at this, and fixes whatever is broken with the update process!

jazzymjr

on May 16, 2008

So, I rebooted again, and this time, the skin loaded properly! Whew! I sure hope Stardock takes a look at this, and fixes whatever is broken with the update process!

Well, I spoke too soon! When I went to change to a different skin, it crashed my computer! So, I have gone back to the previous version of WB 6...and, will not try to update again until Stardock fixes whatever is wrong here.

HauntingMorgana

on May 17, 2008

Still having issues myself with this. My above post explains. Basically....update wb, then wbconfig cannot be found. Cannot be started,etc. So, reboot, redo, then it can be found, but then all of my blinds/skins are missing, as in gone. Uninstall and then reinstall, same thing.

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