WindowBlinds 6.1 Now Available

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Stardock is excited to announce the release of WindowBlinds 6.1 today.  WindowBlinds is the easiest, and safest way to change the complete look and feel of both Windows Vista and XP by applying one of thousands of visual styles that are available.

These visual styles can change just about every element of the Windows user interface from the Start menu, task bar, title bar, push buttons, scrollbars, and nearly everything else in Windows.

The WindowBlinds 6.1 update is available to current customers as a free update, and users can upgrade either through Stardock Central or the Impulse preview.  The WindowBlinds 6.1 release includes the following updates:

  • Several maintenance and performance tweaks.
  • Option to force start button to the middle of skins.
  • Explorer background feature.

The Explorer Background feature allows users to change the background of their explorer, along with the background color and opacity.  There are 30 different background textures to choose from, including a "no texture" option that lets you set just the color and transparency of the Explorer background.

WindowBlinds has a free download available for evaluation, and is $19.95 for the full enhanced version.  WindowBlinds is also part of the Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements.

Link: WindowBlinds

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Option to force start button to the middle of skins.
So the startbutton can be set to the middle of the taskbar??
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am glad I am not the only one confused by that statement
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Transparency can't be reset in XP??? I changed hue and saturation and then applied...nothing happens??? Using newest .81 version.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Option to force start button to the middle of skins.
If that's what it means it doesn't work. Maybe a little clarification.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have been having another problem with WB for quite awhile now. On my my laptop, running XP every time I right click on the task bar, or click on a pull down menu, explorer crashes and then I get the white Active desktop re-activation page and mu current background disappears. I know his is related directly to WindowsBlinds because as soon as I un-install WB, the problem goes away. Anyone else having this problem or does anyone know of a work around for this? I have not ben using WB because of these problems, (thought I'd give this new build a try), which can be really frustrating when yo are trying to get work done.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Make sure you reboot before posting errors.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wet Monkey: If you have nvidia nview enabled please try disabling it.

"Option to force start button to the middle of skins"

This means the start button can be positioned in the middle vertically on multi line taskbars as the aero orb is.  The default in WB is to position this at the top of the taskbar.  This is a Vista only feature.  Users can force this via the advanced settings page in wbconfig, or skin authors can set it in their skins if they want the button to use this mode.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Was wondering about the start button thing myself. Was asking a few skinners if it would be possible to skin it so that the button is centered vertically on double task and they didn't think it was possible without a lot of work, so this is cool!
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The WindowBlinds 6.1 update is available to current customers as a free update, and users can upgrade either through Stardock Central or the Impulse preview.


I have switched to using Impulse for downloading updates, the WB update has not shown up there yet, it is showing up in SDC.

Do I cause myself problems by using SDC to download this update or should I just wait for it to show up in Impulse? Or because of the difference between SDC and Impulse do I all ready have the update and don't know it? :NOTSURE: 
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
All good questions. Try SDC and see if it's there.

downuoadind


Whoa that's a real bad Zubaz :LOL: 
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
downuoadind


Whoa that's a real bad Zubaz
Yeah, I wonder how I was able to edit and correct it but yet you saw it AL.  :SURPRISED: 
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neil, Fantastic update. Everyone else.. I am working on a skin using the newest translucency features that looks so good, even I am surprised.  :HOT: 
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is a Vista only feature.

Waaaa just noticed that.  X-( 
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Updated through Impulse. No problems. Just Reboot after install.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neil, Fantastic update.

Everyone else.. I am working on a skin using the newest translucency features that looks so good, even I am surprised.   


:CONGRAT: :CONGRAT:
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This means the start button can be positioned in the middle vertically on multi line taskbars as the aero orb is. The default in WB is to position this at the top of the taskbar. This is a Vista only feature. Users can force this via the advanced settings page in wbconfig, or skin authors can set it in their skins if they want the button to use this mode.


Buy that man a new Car~!
This is one heck of nice feature Neil!

SGT ;) 
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Tried to update twice. Restored from an image twice. Upon reboot, right click the tray icon, and the shortcut cannot be found. In fact, wb6 itself is missing. Bleh. Stick to the older release for now.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

HauntingMorgana: Did you uninstall the older build first?  If so did you reboot between doing this and installing the new build?  Also how are you installing (SDC, Impulse, or standalone)?

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neil....after I did the recent update and rebooted I couldn't get WB Config to open up after several tries. Just restored my system and every things back to normal. Not sure what caused that...never happened before. I didn't uninstall anything before the update and updated through SDC.

No biggy though...seems the cool updates are for vista only anyway.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hello Neil- I did not uninstall the other build first. Just let sdc do the update, and it rebooted. I'm running XP though.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks much Neil, that did the trick. I should have asked this question months ago. Thanks again.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Does WindowBlinds 6.1 finally support Explorer Backgrounds in XP? Because although Skinstudio 6 has an explorer background feature, it fails to work in XP, and only works with Vista. I should check this out.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I couldn't get WB Config to open up after several tries
Happened to me too... I reinstall wb and it seems to work fine now..