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.