- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Limited skinning capabilities); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP
- Date added: March 21, 2006
- Total Downloads: 14,709,588
- Downloads last week: 35,378
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 657 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Despite a few issues, WindowBlinds offers a compelling way to add some panache to Windows XP. In short, the program lets you skin Windows, offering a number of preconfigured themes that range in styles and change the entire look of your desktop. No matter what skin you choose, though, we doubt you'll have any complaints with the appearance of the polished, attractive themes. You also choose from several toolbar icon sets to match your skin of choice and tweak settings such as the size of the taskbar. WindowBlinds gets high marks for performance; we found the skins loaded seamlessly after a couple of seconds. However, we should note that the program takes up its fair share of RAM--65MB on our test machine. If you want to edit the themes through the program, you'll have to install the publisher's SkinStudio, and we missed the ability to reassociate a wallpaper image of our choice with our selected themes. On the plus side, the trial version lets you test the program for a full two months, which is very generous by today's standards. Anyone who sits in front of a computer all day will find that WindowBlinds helps liven up the experience.Publisher's description
From Stardock :Customize the look and feel of Windows XP with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. It can "skin" your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, radio buttons, and nearly every other part of Windows. There are thousands of freely available skins to choose from. Use WindowBlinds to make Windows look like another operating system (Mac, Linux, etc.) or give it your own unique look and feel. You can also create your own skins using the freely available SkinStudio. WindowBlinds eliminates the need for any stay-resident program making it use virtually no extra memory. It also makes use of hardware acceleration found on most nVidia and ATI cards resulting in an overall performance increase.
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User reviews of WindowBlinds 5.01
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 657 votes
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42 out of 46 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.01
"One of those "Can't live without""
Pros: Using it since Windows 95. Just GREAT. The purchase price is worth every peny, and more! The full version have NO real skining limitation, it will even skin applications and part of the UI that Windows XP can't.
Many skins will add some functionalities to the usuals ones like rolluo/unroll, always on top toggle, send to bottom,...
Go get a look at wincustonize and get thousands of skins to chose from!
Sounds and wallpapers can be disabled if you want.
You can set overrides to change some funtionality of the skins.
Cons: If you don't have Windows XP, you must stay with the 4.x version.
Maybe to much choice of skins, you can fill up your drive with those!
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17 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.01
"One THE BEST downloads on this site!"
Pros: This product lets you completedly change how windows looks.
You can download lots of different 'Skins' that make your computer look origional and stylish - once you try some of the skins, you will never go back to the old windows ones.
There is a great variety that you can download, different colours schemes, different buttons, ones that look like Apple Or other computer makes...There are so many you could spend months downloading and using them.
The program is easy to use - and dosen't make the computer go much slower.
Windowblinds is part of the 'Object Desktop' which you can buy from stardock, which has many prodrams that lets you customize your computer! It is a great buy that you will use forever. (Check out 'Desktop X' for one of the other better programs from the pack)
Cons: You have to pay to get the full version, which lets you edit skins, download more of them, and many other little features
60 Day Demo
***But it's a small download and the two months you do get are more than worth downloading it***
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.01
Pros: It lets you skin your computer with another theme other than the default Windows theme. It makes the look and feel of your computer a little more pleasing to the eye. Some skins allow you to launch WMP from it
Cons: Costs more resources. After using this, a regular default Windows skin looks too plain.
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16 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.01
"best skinning tool available"
Pros: had absolutley no problems viewing the themes, and there are a lot available, more can be found on their site.
as far as i know, it doesnt use up your system resources, its quite a light program
Cons: when you unload a skin, i.e. go back to the windows xp theme, the theme is xp classic for some reason
other than that its great
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.01
Pros: It lets you change practically everything!
Really irks my sense of OC!!!!
Many sleepless nights of seeing my ideas come to life!
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