WindowBlinds 5.5 Officially released!

Island Dog · 14-03-2007, 06:28 AM

Stardock released WindowBlinds 5.5 today. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to customize the look and feel of the graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying "skins", WindowBlinds can change title bars, borders, push buttons, scroll bars, the taskbar, the Start menu and virtually every element of the Windows environment. Thousands of different skins exist and can be created using a free program called SkinStudio.

WindowBlinds 5.5 is a major update in that it is the first program to allow users to change the look and feel of Windows Vista. Thanks to a new technology called "SmartSkinning", WindowBlinds allows skins created for Windows XP to be used to skin Windows Vista. WindowBlinds 5.5 then transforms the skin, on-the-fly, to conform to the new user interface conventions of Windows Vista to give it a distinctly Windows Vista look and feel. Users of .msstyles files on Windows XP can use SkinStudio to convert their favorite .msstyles to WindowBlinds 5.5 to run natively on Windows Vista.

Stardock has also begun work on WindowBlinds 6 which will provide a host of native features to Windows Vista such as custom blur effects, Sidebar skinning, glass toolbar skinning, and some new features that Stardock is keeping under wraps. Users who purchased WindowBlinds 5 after February 1st will receive WindowBlinds 6 free. A beta of WindowBlinds 6 will be available for registered users shortly.

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=147084

gofeddy · 14-03-2007, 12:57 PM

Oh great. I will download it then. I wish they made it freeware

Tech Geek · 14-03-2007, 01:00 PM

Atlast....

Thanks for telling

alsiladka · 14-03-2007, 01:36 PM

Seems all Vista centric!!! Any new feature for the XP version?

ax3 · 15-03-2007, 11:13 AM

will downloading it ! ! !

thanx .......

Third Eye · 15-03-2007, 12:50 PM

Thanks for telling us,i am waiting for WB 6.

Ankur Gupta · 15-03-2007, 07:03 PM

Is Windows Blinds better than Aston??

Third Eye · 15-03-2007, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ankurgupta.me

Is Windows Blinds better than Aston??

yeah

Island Dog · 15-03-2007, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alsiladka

Seems all Vista centric!!! Any new feature for the XP version?

On the XP side there were various tweaks and fixes, but the main feature was compatiblity with Vista.

gxsaurav · 15-03-2007, 10:17 PM

Not worth it on Windows Vista. I am waiting for WindowBlinds 6 as by that time there will be better Vista centric skins. Right now the ones available just XP skins ported to Vista.

Using it right now in Windows XP