WindowBlinds 4 Released!

Published on April 8, 2003 By Stardock Central In WinCustomize News

WindowBlinds 4 has some great new features including:

* Command prompt skinning

* Skinning of virtually every element of the Windows XP GUI

* Skinning of the logoff, shellstyles, and please wait dialogs

* Smart painting - makes most WindowBlinds enhanced visual styles run nearly as fast as "classic"

* Enhanced integration into Windows XP greatly increasing compatibility with nearly all programs

* A new configuration program that makes the features of WindowBlinds more accessible than ever

* Settings for control of the Windows XP start bar. Now you can have a skinny start bar with any visual style

* Native integration into Remote Desktop and graphics acceleration by most video cards

These new features add to the already impressive WindowBlinds feature set that includes:

* Change the color of your visual style on the fly

* Gamma correction on visual styles

* Skinning of non-theme aware applications

* Hyperpaint - uses the extra memory in your video card to buffer to increase performance

* Additional controls in the title bar such as MP3 players, roll-up buttons, always on top buttons, minimize to tray, and much more

* Associate sound effects with title bar buttons

* Have animated title bars, buttons and more

* Powerful enhanced visual style format that allows placement of buttons any place on a window edge as well as independently sized window borders

* Much more!

Users who purchased WindowBlinds 3 since the beginning of the year can upgrade for free. Just visit https://www.stardock.com/support.asp and type in your email address.

Other users of WindowBlinds 3 can upgrade to version 4 for only $10 for a limited time.

Visit http://www.windowblinds.net/wb4upgrade.asp to upgrade.

All other users can purchase WindowBlinds 4 at: https://www.stardock.com/order.asp?product=Windowblinds for $19.95.

WindowBlinds is part of Stardock''s Object Desktop which is $49.95 and includes WindowBlinds 4 plus DesktopX, ObjectBar, IconPackager, WinStyles, and much more plus a year''s worth of updates to them.

A shareware version of WindowBlinds 4 will be released next week.

Comments (Page 1)

rikkie

on Apr 08, 2003

Great update !! It 's a faster than the last beta-version so the guys at stardock must have found some improvements even afer the release of that one ..can't wait for the win2k version though

MarkSnyder61

on Apr 08, 2003

I waited all day then there it was VERSION 4! I immediately downloaded from Object Desktop and I have to say that this is THE BEST VERSION so far! Keep up the great work! Hope it works well with the upcoming Longhorn??

balls

on Apr 08, 2003

All I get on Stardock Central is 3.99f(rc).012 which actually doen't intall..Keep getting an error at XP Jeans.

chuckyboy81070

on Apr 08, 2003

wow..."nearly as 'classic'"
nearly what as "classic"? goofy?

chuckyboy81070

on Apr 08, 2003

please...do something about the screenshot. if i wasn't a longtime user and owner already, i'd run away as fast as i could.

AtomB

on Apr 08, 2003

very nice to come home from work and see 4.0 available in Object Desktop.

MGiff

on Apr 08, 2003

After I installed and restarted, I noticed the contrast and clarity of everything has improved. Anybody else have this happen? Overall, I really love this effect!

CoOLeRGuY

on Apr 08, 2003

awww what the heck.. i posted first and it didnt get it

oh well! I DONT CARE because windowblinds 4 is here! wooo hooo!

bordfryr

on Apr 08, 2003

Ah, yes. WB4! I almost forgot...................NOT!!!

chuckyboy81070

on Apr 08, 2003

MGiff, i can't really say i noticed a clarity difference, but i noticed it's much zippier, even just over the last RC. i thought i was just giddy, but i'm almost positive it's faster. it's also nice to be able to read the text of a highlighted link.
good job folks.

TheSwede1970

on Apr 08, 2003

HUGE improvement...

Very happy customer here...

hawkon

on Apr 08, 2003

Of course there had to be some minus issues; only XP users so far

well well ...

Timoleon5

on Apr 08, 2003

Immediately noticed a speed increase. Time & Chaos finally skins properly!

Very, very well-done indeed --- worth many times the ten bucks it cost me to upgrade.

sthrncin

on Apr 08, 2003

I love it. It works extremely good. Very fast also.

Chef Garry

on Apr 08, 2003

yay!

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