ExtremeTech reviews WindowBlinds 4.5

Published on February 9, 2005 By Stardock Central In WinCustomize News

ExtremeTech has taken an in-depth look at the newly released WindowBlinds 4.5. WindowBlinds is a program that lets you completely customize the look & feel of the Windows graphical user interface.

Comments

Brandon Paddock

on Feb 09, 2005

Funny, while reading this I found a new bug in WB 4.5.

If WB 4.5 is skinning any browser that uses the IE engine (tested on both Maxthon and Avant), and you use the Find window (Ctrl-F) to search for text, then close the Find window... the browser locks up. Avant recovers after a while, but Maxthon seems to die completely most of the time.

Adding an exception that disables just the titlebar skinning seems to resolve the issue.

Frogboy

on Feb 09, 2005

It's not happening here though I am using Blog Navigator. I will ask someoen in the lab to try this with Maxthon or Avant.

dukeofchutney

on Feb 10, 2005

Good read that, but they only rated it an 8 out 10.

Good grief, it's at least a 9.5!

danioc

on Feb 10, 2005

Great article

Essencay

on Feb 10, 2005

If WB 4.5 is skinning any browser that uses the IE engine (tested on both Maxthon and Avant), and you use the Find window (Ctrl-F) to search for text, then close the Find window... the browser locks up.

Using Maxthon....works fine here.

Great article

PixelPirate

on Feb 10, 2005

Using Maxthon here, does not work fine. It locks up after closing a search. Also the download animation is broken somehow, the regular Windows download animation shows instead.

Essencay

on Feb 10, 2005

Depends on the skin for me.....Koasati's TranKwill skin does not lock it up. A personal port of KoL's MM Maggra-X does.

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