Stardock WindowBlinds v5.51 Build 110

WindowBlinds is a program that allows you to completely change the look and feel of Windows to whatever you want it to look like It allows you to completely customize your desktop by changing the style of title bars buttons and toolbars You can change the look of buttons and check boxes by assigning them skins or personalities and you can assign buttons that will launch programs to toolbars You can create your own skins choose from the four that are included in the program or download additional ones You can also choose to exclude certain programs from WindowBlinds if you don 39 t want to change their appearances

Features
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 39 s video cards to accelerate visual styles
Tight Integration WindowBlinds is so tightly integrated into Windows XP and Windows 2000 it can even skin the Windows command prompt Only WindowBlinds makes this possible
Native WindowBlinds doesn 39 t quot skin quot over the Windows GUI Instead it actually handles the painting for the application This allows WindowBlinds to skin virtually every control On Windows XP for example WindowBlinds can actually stylize more controls on more programs than the bundled msstyle engine
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 gives Windows XP users for the first time a say on how big their Windows XP start bar is Now users can set how big they want their Start bar to be
WindowBlinds visual styles support skinning additional small aspects of the Windows XP user interface such as mouse overs on the Start menu
WindowBlinds supports a feature called quot Hyperpaint quot This is different from quot Smart Paint quot Hyperpaint uses the extra video RAM on your video card to quot buffer quot your windows which makes moving them on screen possible without any repainting
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
Stardock Skincast is a way for users to add new visual styles to Windows right from the appearance dialog or WB Configuration dialog It automatically downloads the week 39 s featured visual style and installs it
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
WindowBlinds allows users to have different visual styles on different applications
WindowBlinds can skin non theme aware applications Windows XP is designed to only fully skin quot theme aware quot programs But WindowBlinds 4 can skin even non theme aware applications fully while still maintaining a high level of compatibility
WindowBlinds enables users to change the Windows progress animations to one of their choice Users can even mix and match their visual styles and their animations