Stardock WindowBlinds v6.30

WindowBlinds is a one-of-a-kind utility that allows users to completely change the look and feel of the interface by applying a new skin. There are thousands of different skins to choose from that are freely downloadable from the WindowBlinds website. A WindowBlinds skin can change to look like an alternative operating system, favorite car brands, favorite tm, or virtually anything else. With modern cards, WindowBlinds can do this without reducing performance. WindowBlinds 6 adds the ability to have blurred glass window borders on XP which allows artists to make skins that could make XP look virtually identical to Vista.

Additionally, WindowBlinds 6 adds full support for customizing ™ new Vista operating system. Everything from Internet Explorer 7 skinning, Sidebar skinning to explorer backgrounds, WindowBlinds 6 skins virtually every element of Vista while making full use of the hardware acceleration ftures on Vista for maximum performance.
The new version also adds a host of other ftures including advanced animation support in skins, user-crtable skin sub-styles, a new, sy to use configuration program, user customization options of fonts and colors in skins and much more.

WindowBlinds is safe and sy to use. It doesn't alter any system files and users can switch between the default look and feel and a custom WindowBlinds skin with the click of a button. In addition, WindowBlinds has been tested to ensure it works with Vista, so you know it is compatible, reliable, and more secure.

Stardock WindowBlinds will let you apply thousands of different skins (visual styles) to change the look and feel of your entire desktop. WindowBlinds is so flexible that users can crte skins that mimic the look and feel of other operating systems. Even with thousands of different visual styles to choose from, you can customize those visual styles as well. WindowBlinds gives you total control over your graphical user interface. WindowBlinds will let you change the color of your GUI, change your wallpaper, give different their own specific look, choose a new taskbar and Start button.

WindowBlinds doesn't just make look better, it can make it more functional. You can crte your own skins that add additional buttons to the title bar that provide additional functionality such as roll-up buttons, link buttons, program short cuts, even media player controls. Moreover, because WindowBlinds uses the latest ftures of your graphics card, it can make even faster than the default XP or "Aero" style.

Ftures:
- New start menu animation support
- egory filtering on skins in wbconfig
- Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
- Random skin support
- The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
- Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instd of the entire skin
- Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
- Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
- Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames. Has some limitations on XP
- Ability to save such changes as a preset
- Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
- Ability to skin the sidebar
- Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
- Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
- Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
- Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
- Support for explorer background bitmaps
- Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
- Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
- Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
- Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
- Skins virtually every aspect of the GUI
- Cln and sy configuration dialog.
- Tons of configuration options for users
- Animation supported on titlebars, buttons, and many other elements.
- Change the color of any visual style on the fly
- Per-appliion visual styles
- Doesn't alter any system files
- Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of

WindowBlinds 6.30 Relse
This relse for WindowBlinds 6.30 adds new skinning options for layer blend modes. See the betas of SkinStudio 6.30 to check that out.

Support for a of blending modes for layers
Brdcrumb bar text positioning no longer changes depending on if the window is maximized
Do not shift text when button pressed skin option (edit in SKS)
64 bit has had some twks to handle bad sizing of the addressbar
Shadow effect now works on very transparent things like the diamond taskbar clock text.

Homepage: http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

Download Stardock WindowBlinds v6.30 | 31.6 MB

Tags: Style , Utility, , portable software