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Change your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, and every other aspect of the Windows GUI with the world's most popular desktop enhancement, WindowBlinds. Make your Windows GUI look like anything you want it to!
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WindowBlinds 5.01
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More downloads from Stardock Corporation, Inc.  Size: 10.5MB
Version: v5.01
Date Updated: 7/11/2006 1:25:44 PM
License: Free
Description: WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to personalize their Windows XP PC with thousands of different visual styles.
WindowBlinds is a program that that enables Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows user interface. Users customize Windows by using visual styles (skins) created for WindowBlinds. With these skins, WindowBlinds can change the look of:
- Title bars
- borders
- The Start bar
- Progress animations
- Explorer Views
- and virtually every other part of Windows!
Features of WindowBlinds
- Excellent application compatibility. Because Stardock has had years to tune WindowBlinds for compatibility, WindowBlinds has excellent compatibility. How good? Ask Microsoft, Nintendo, nVidia, ATI, and many others who have licensed WindowBlinds to release additional visual styles.
- Top Notch Performance. WindowBlinds uses the graphics acceleration features of today's video cards to accelerate visual styles.
- Tight Integration. WindowBlinds 5 doesn't need to any dedicated process in order to run, it runs as a native Windows XP extension.
- Native. WindowBlinds DOES NOT "skin over" the existing user interface. It works by extending the existing painting calls with newer, faster, more feature rich ones.
- WindowBlinds skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI that one can imagine. And in fact, the enhanced visual styles used by WindowBlinds can skin things previously not thought to be skinnable such as logon/logoff dialogs, the "please wait" dialog, backgrounds in the Control Panel and other special folders, and more.
- WindowBlinds also comes with clean and easy configuration dialog. Users can still control their WindowBlinds enhanced visual styles from the display properties dialog, but the WindowBlinds configuration makes it easy to manage dozens of skins, sort them by category, and configure it to their liking.
- WindowBlinds comes with tons of configuration options for users.
- WindowBlinds 5 skins support per-pixel alpha blending on nearly all controls including the title bars, borders, menus, and other major elements. That means no "jaggies", semi-transparent elements, and just plain cooler looking user interfaces. And best of all, it does this using DirectX acceleration so for most users, it actually increases performance over standard Windows.
- WindowBlinds skins can customize the Start menu to a very high degree.
- WindowBlinds can be configured either from its configuration program or from the Windows display properties dialog.
- WindowBlinds lets users define what double clicking and right clicking on the title bar do. This can translate into significant productivity gains for users as they can perform various actions with a single or double click to the title bar.
- Animation support even on per-pixel title bars!
- WindowBlinds can change the color of any visual style on the fly. While there are thousands of existing WindowBlinds visual styles, this feature allows users to take those visual styles and tune them to their own tastes visually. The same is true about gamma adjustment and even gray scale. A user can even invert the colors of a visual style.
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