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 2)

balls

on Apr 08, 2003

4.00.006 and working just fine.

Darkee

on Apr 09, 2003

Having just purchased WB4.100, the speed differance from ver 3.4 is like going from a cycle to a high preformance car.

The skinning of the Windows XP GUI is excellent. Well done Stardock

c242

on Apr 09, 2003

For people having problems updtaing via SDCentral : Clearing the SDC temp-folder (C:\Program Files\Stardock\Temp) might do the trick.

QuazziLoco

on Apr 09, 2003

Congradulations

This is a wonderful program. I'm going to miss installing all those betas

mr.bo

on Apr 09, 2003

Hmm, it seems that background (explorer) bitmaps have been disabled. I can't find it anywhere.

Neil Banfield

on Apr 09, 2003

Explorer bitmaps are not in WB 4 right now.

They may reappear in WB 4.1.

snarph

on Apr 09, 2003

This has been one of the most diapointing release of any product Object Desktop that I have personaly experienced all winter long encrementaly come release after release only to be told not for you, only for Windows Xp. Well personaly I a cant say what comes to mind, but I cant almost smell it. Now its here and still stardock has the nerve to say not for you only for Windows XP I realize that as a produser of software you will need to support the latest and greatest versions. But i'M NOT RUNNING WIN95,WIN98 SHOOT NOT EVEN WINME just the lastrelease pre-winXP WIN 2000 so yea whoopy its finaly here (NOT)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neil Banfield

on Apr 09, 2003

The version for Windows 9x/2000 will be released around the beginning of summer. We have said this is the case for some time now.

The version for XP was completed first as XP has a number of features which 2000 and 9x do not have.

skikel

on Apr 09, 2003

Anyone having trouble using the download link? Just purchased my upgrade this morning and the link continues to time-out on me!

skikel

on Apr 09, 2003

...so I cleared the IE cache and it downloaded and I forgot...and I...

Installed great and what a difference. Nice!

chadlachlanross

on Apr 09, 2003

Still having Windowblinds 4/DesktopX 1.3 Multimonitor issues.... I get no responses in the Stardock support forum. Is there one just for Windowblinds that I am missing?

_Martin_

on Apr 09, 2003

Chad,

Think these are just DX issues. Not related to WB

TheGuest

on Apr 09, 2003

>"Hmm, it seems that background (explorer) bitmaps have been disabled. I can't find it anywhere"
>
>"Explorer bitmaps are not in WB 4 right now.
>They may reappear in WB 4.1"

Ahh, I was going to ask about that too. Little surprised they aren't included with WB4 seeing as they were there in previous versions.

werewolf

on Apr 09, 2003

Congratulations you guys! WB v4! Awesome and another milestone in the history of a great company. Keep up the good work.

REMenard

on Apr 09, 2003

I am disappointed, at the time frame for win2000 support. You may of said in places this summer. But the few things had seen from you stated soon to follow. bummer

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