- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Limited skinning capabilities); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: March 10, 2007
- 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 in modern video cards to make Windows perform even faster than it does by default.
Version 5.5 adds support for Windows Vista, includes faster performance, and updated skins.
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User reviews of WindowBlinds 5.5
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 657 votes
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24 out of 37 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.5
Pros: Windows blinds changes the theme of XP into something cool.Lots of great themes to choose from.It's really fun and none of the skins look boring.If you want to changes the boring look of XP then get this now.
Cons: I wish this program was free.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.5
"Very fun program with lots of options"
Pros: I love this software, it's very fun to fiddle around with, and even some of the options they offer look better than Vista's appearance. I downloaded it for my lil brother, and it seems he is enjoying it more than me.
Cons: Wish, you didn't have to pay for all the options. Besides this, it all A ok.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.5
"This is a really great program"
Pros: I cannot imagine now how I would do without it. Had it not been for WindowBlinds - Windows would be such a boring and monotonous thing.
Cons: Some glitches rarely happen.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.5
Pros: This program is low on system recources and does not require you to replace any windows .dll files. Some nice skins, and easy to unload.
Cons: More skins created by professional designers?
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: WindowBlinds 5.5
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