Quote - (chAos972 @ Aug 8 2007, 01:42) 
Wow, this looks very nice. I might just buy this down the track if they include some decent Vista themes (there aren't many of those around atm).
Isn't there like a gazillion Vista themes out there?
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| Post #31 Aug 8 2007, 13:08 | |
Neowinian Senior   Group: Partner Posts: 3,661 Joined: 4-April 04 From: St. Cloud, FL. Member No.: 51,791 
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Isn't there like a gazillion Vista themes out there?
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Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,217 Joined: 4-May 04 From: St. Louis, MO Member No.: 54,666
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So people who use XP will benefit more with this application? From what I'm reading, those with XP use this app to make XP look more like vista. Is there a benefit using this with vista?
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| Post #33 Aug 8 2007, 16:05 | |
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Neowinian Senior Group: Partner Posts: 3,661 Joined: 4-April 04 From: St. Cloud, FL. Member No.: 51,791
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The best benefit is you can easily change skins and have the features like adjustable transparency, blurring, colorizing skins, sidebar skinning, and the overall flexibility you will only get with WB.
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| Post #34 Aug 8 2007, 16:08 | |
BlendedFrog  Group: Registered Posts: 4,598 Joined: 28-August 01 Member No.: 899
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Quote - (Xenomorph @ Aug 7 2007, 13:08) there are some annoying issues with WindowBlinds. first, it doesnt add functionality to the Windows skinning engine, it replaces it. it's a little annoying to have it unload the Windows skinning engine - changing things to a "classic" look, and then load the WindowBlinds engine, then load the skin. When you go back to a native Windows theme, it has to unload the WindowBlinds engine - changing things back to a "classic" look, then load the Windows skinning engine and then the theme you selected. second, those talented enough to make a WindowBlinds skin seem to enjoy making the most ugly, horrid interfaces known to man. there are VERY few WindowBlinds skins that are totally usable and pleasant to look at. a lot of the people who make a Vista-looking skin for XP put crap in like fake Start Menus that have fake Search boxes. they don't function, but the skin designer thinks its cool to have the XP Start Menu look identical to Vista. why do they do this? WB unloads the uxtheme automatically when you apply a theme. All you have to do to get the luna theme back and unload WB is select the luna theme at the front of WB and select apply. It then goes back to luna, loads uxtheme and unloads the wb engine. Very simple. Also, the uxtheme engine is nothing but a stripped down version of wb3. I direct to to any skin made by KoL, vstyler, JJYing, Code2, adni18, b0se. Those are just some of my favorites. My take on all msstyles/WB skins. 99% of all the skins out there are crap and not useable. Of the 1% left, 0.5% I might use for a few days to a week. The last 0.5% are the best ones and go into my rotating library for keeps. So far I have a grand total of 15 skins. Thats how picky I am. Quote - (gizbug @ Aug 8 2007, 08:14) So people who use XP will benefit more with this application? From what I'm reading, those with XP use this app to make XP look more like vista. Is there a benefit using this with vista? People seem to like vista now because it's new and they can get XP to look like it because WB6/WB5 can do PPT now. Remember when OS X came out, there were 100's of msstyles/wb skins that looked like os x. Now you get 1 every so often. Give it a couple of months, it will die down. For life of god, stop your complaining of the program. If you don't like it, don't use it. If you can't find a good skin, then take a crack at making your own or use the free version skinstudio and convert your favorite msstyle over. Big pluses for WB5/6: Use gpu for skinning, less cpu load/ram (mine uses a whopping 750K) Can do PPT and now blurring Animated start menus recoloring of skins/individual parts of skins |
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1 2 Freddy's coming for you   Group:  VeteranPosts: 10,912 Joined: 6-August 01 From: 3 4 better lock your door Member No.: 390
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Quote - (Island Dog @ Aug 7 2007, 21:26) In your opinion maybe. There are a wide variety of skins for WB that can fit all kinds of styles whether you like bulky, industrial type skins, or maybe just minimal skins with minimal transparency. I would be happy to list links to all my favorite "usable" skins, but I really don't think it would help much. What "functionality" do you want? Make sure you have the latest version of Stardock Central installed, then uninstall and reinstall again. If you still have issues please report it to the WB6 feedback thread. http://forums.wincustomize.com/?forumid=16...=159218&p=5 Yeah it seems when I uninstalled WB5 SDC didn't get rid of all the registry entries. So I rebooted yet again and nuked them myself, then reinstalled WB6 and it loaded fine
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Geek 2² Ever  Group: +Subscriber Posts: 12,153 Joined: 10-August 04 From: Quebec / Canada Language: French / English Member No.: 66,198
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Why any treads about WB always turn to flame? Damn, there is no adults there?
The tread started about WB6 Beta and now it's upon the again or the for the use of WB and the quality of the themes... I'm afraid to start a tread about SkinStudio6 Beta that was made available... |
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BlendedFrog Group: Registered Posts: 4,598 Joined: 28-August 01 Member No.: 899
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Quote - (Nienor @ Aug 8 2007, 21:03) Why any treads about WB always turn to flame? Damn, there is no adults there? The tread started about WB6 Beta and now it's upon the again or the for the use of WB and the quality of the themes... I'm afraid to start a tread about SkinStudio6 Beta that was made available... That's what happens here. People on neowin don't understand that WB has come a long way. They have this opinion from using version 3 or 4 and they continue to think that it doen's work right. They also think that the uxtheme is the best when really it is just a stripped down version of wb3. |
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GGTW  Group: +Subscriber² Posts: 10,273 Joined: 18-May 03 From: Chester, England Member No.: 28,458
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I've been using this for a few days now, and haven't really noticed anything different. Loading times seems about the same, and there are still skinning bugs with Office 2007.
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Tree Climber Group: Registered Posts: 3,841 Joined: 24-March 05 From: Waterloo, Iowa Member No.: 102,394
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Quote - (gizbug @ Aug 8 2007, 08:14) So people who use XP will benefit more with this application? From what I'm reading, those with XP use this app to make XP look more like vista. Is there a benefit using this with vista? One real advantage of using this on Vista is that you can convert and use XP visual styles
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Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,007 Joined: 16-July 05 From: Maryland Member No.: 118,616
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Quote - (huskerpat @ Aug 5 2007, 10:28) sweet. I added transparent borders to LE 5.1 black.  Whoa!.. That sounds awesome, can you possibly share a screenshot of that in action? PM it if you want. |
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Neowinian³  Group: Registered Posts: 351 Joined: 26-November 06 From: LA, CA Member No.: 188,748
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BTW, I thought I saw somewhere on the WB website saying if got WB5 from February and later, you get WB6 free. I'm not sure when I ordered my copy of WB5. I know only that I got the very first version about a week after the release. Do I qualify to get WB 6 free or just buy it with the upgrade discount out of curiosity.
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Neowinian  Group: Registered Posts: 98 Joined: 3-July 04 Member No.: 61,264
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Anyone knows when the x64 version will be out?
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Neowinian Senior Group: Partner Posts: 3,661 Joined: 4-April 04 From: St. Cloud, FL. Member No.: 51,791
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Quote - (-Hiroshi- @ Aug 20 2007, 01:55) Whoa!.. That sounds awesome, can you possibly share a screenshot of that in action? PM it if you want. This is a quick shot a took of LE with some added transparency.  Quote - BTW, I thought I saw somewhere on the WB website saying if got WB5 from February and later, you get WB6 free. I'm not sure when I ordered my copy of WB5. I know only that I got the very first version about a week after the release. Do I qualify to get WB 6 free or just buy it with the upgrade discount out of curiosity. Correct. Anyone who purchased after February 1st of this year will get the upgrade free, otherwise it will be at a discounted upgrade. If you PM me I can find out when you purchased your copy. |
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Neowinian³ Group: Banned Posts: 348 Joined: 31-July 02 Member No.: 16,139
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Quote - (Echilon @ Aug 19 2007, 11:34) I've been using this for a few days now, and haven't really noticed anything different. Loading times seems about the same, and there are still skinning bugs with Office 2007. Bummer- I'm going to stick with my current version, and not purchase WB again until they sort out that problem. I know it's not Stardocks fault, but if they can't fix the glitches associated with Office 2007, then I'm going to have to switch back to VSs for XP. I use Office far to much... |
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Neowinian²  Group: Registered Posts: 157 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Essex, England Member No.: 33,310
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Could someone who has Windowblinds 6 and Windows XP, use a Vista-like theme like Aeroglass and post screenshots of the titlebar with the new blur effect enabled, and with it disabled, for comparison so we can see the difference?
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