First Look: WindowBlinds desktop themes

by Jessica Dolcourt

A few months ago, I shared a great-looking combo of themes that give Windows XP and Firefox a dark, unified look. WindowBlinds is an app that achieves the same end, but brings a large gallery of theme options to you. Dress your desktop up or down with default selections or choose specially-formatted third-party themes that download straight into WindowBlinds. Either way, the sharp visuals and full-featured, easy-to-use configuration manager make this application a recommended choice for anyone interested in pimping out their desktop. Aww, yeah.

Topics:: Desktop Enhancements

Tags:: First Look,; WindowBlinds,; desktop themes,; desktop skins

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by saurav1445 May 8, 2008 8:53 PM PDT: Reply to this comment


by tashfeen_m May 9, 2008 10:37 AM PDT: Nice work! WindowBlinds can make your desktop look really pretty. But it does eat up quite a bit of RAM, as far as I remember.; Reply to this comment

by JoyceNgo-218335993631273378369 May 9, 2008 1:29 PM PDT

The video isn't working for me, once again. Is anyone else having this problem?

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by xoSushi May 9, 2008 11:05 PM PDT: Same goes for me. NONE of the videos work for me. I liked the old video players better.
Maybe it's a Firefox browser related problem.


by Mdpats May 9, 2008 2:33 PM PDT: Don't use Firefox to view; Reply to this comment


by 0zSpit May 9, 2008 4:45 PM PDT: newbs like garbage like this.; Reply to this comment


by spy_1 May 10, 2008 5:39 AM PDT: another load of old rubbish that Download.com is trying push out on people who know no better the very same people in fact that still go to PC World and Buy Norton Internet Security .; Reply to this comment


by jtaylorhoopla May 10, 2008 5:52 AM PDT: Okay, Common Mis-conception with windowblinds. Windowblinds Uses VIDEO ram. I run windowblinds and play games at the same time, and i mean graphic intensive games. So, it really doesnt slow your computer down any.; Reply to this comment


by 0zSpit May 11, 2008 6:11 AM PDT: lol spy_1, the people who use this probably say "pwned", too; Reply to this comment


by sk8ter11892 May 11, 2008 7:25 AM PDT: yeah i am its getting ridiculous; Reply to this comment


by fooldog01 May 12, 2008 7:13 AM PDT: I have this prog and I'm not a "noob" nor do I use the much maligned phrase "pwned".
I just found it to be a fun little prog to play around with. It hasn't negatively affected performance on my PC either.; Reply to this comment


by yelljack May 12, 2008 8:25 AM PDT: I have had the same problem and this is how you fix it. You probably use an ad blocker plug in for Firefox. I use Ad Block Plus. All you have to do is right click on the plug in icon and disable it for the web site that you are viewing. Then refresh the page with the video on it and you should be able to view it with no problems; Reply to this comment