Thankyou kindly Brad of Stardock for the heads up on this here release of WB3.
Stardock released WindowBlinds 3.0 today. WindowBlinds is a program that extends Windows to support full GUI customization (skinning). With WindowBlinds, a user can make Windows look like another OS (Windows XP, MacOS, Linux, etc.) or like something completely new. WindowBlinds 3 adds a host of new features to enhance productivity as well as new visual effects.
On Windows XP it allows WindowBlinds skins to be used as native visual styles. WindowBlinds 3 is much faster than previous versions of Windows (and is faster than visual styles on Windows XP) thanks to version 3's ability to use hardware acceleration when available. WindowBlinds 3 also uses far less memory and resources than previous versions.
Version 3 is free to download (www.windowblinds.net). Users can purchase the enhanced version for $19.95 which provides additional features such as dynamic coloring, inclusion lists, scrollbar skinning, SmartButtons, and much more.
Download: WindowsBlinds 3.0 Mirror(1.62mb) Shareware version
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View: WindowsBlinds 3.0 Guide
News source: WindowsBlinds Webpage
Stardock released WindowBlinds 3.0 today. WindowBlinds is a program that extends Windows to support full GUI customization (skinning). With WindowBlinds, a user can make Windows look like another OS (Windows XP, MacOS, Linux, etc.) or like something completely new. WindowBlinds 3 adds a host of new features to enhance productivity as well as new visual effects.
On Windows XP it allows WindowBlinds skins to be used as native visual styles. WindowBlinds 3 is much faster than previous versions of Windows (and is faster than visual styles on Windows XP) thanks to version 3's ability to use hardware acceleration when available. WindowBlinds 3 also uses far less memory and resources than previous versions.
Version 3 is free to download (www.windowblinds.net). Users can purchase the enhanced version for $19.95 which provides additional features such as dynamic coloring, inclusion lists, scrollbar skinning, SmartButtons, and much more.
Download: WindowsBlinds 3.0 Mirror(1.62mb) Shareware version Screenshot: One | Two | Three View: WindowsBlinds 3.0 Guide News source: WindowsBlinds Webpage
Stardock has focused on improving WindowBlinds' performance to the point that it is, on Windows XP, faster than the bundled visual styles (Luna) when running a similar skin. It does this while using fewer resources and less memory as well. Stardock was able to do this by taking advantage of new hardware acceleration features in video cards (visit www.xpbench.com to see if your video card supports XP APIs). WindowBlinds 3 boasts a completely new architecture designed to minimize resource usage while providing new features such as SmartBars, Inclusion lists, Hyperpaint, per skin font/color customization, animated mouse-overs, and more.
For users of Windows 98, ME, 2000 WindowBlinds brings much of the new XP theming architecture over. In the coming months, users with WindowBlinds 3 on those versions of Windows will be able to take advantage of "XP theme aware applications".
WindowBlinds allows users to customize nearly every part of the Windows GUI.
Title bars, scrollbars, start bar, radio buttons, push buttons, etc. It can also add additional buttons to the title bar to enhance productivity such as roll-up buttons, URL buttons, always-on-top buttons, and more. It supports a fairly powerful but simple plugin format so that users can put nearly anything they want onto the Windows title bar.
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