- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: January 22, 2008
- Total Downloads: 14,709,588
- Downloads last week: 35,378
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 659 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
WindowBlinds offers a generally compelling way to add some panache to Windows XP or Windows Vista. It lets you skin your graphic interface, offering a number of preconfigured themes that range in styles and change the entire look of your desktop. You also have the ability to make some serious tweaks to each theme, should it be close to what you want, but just not quite right. 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 that the skins loaded seamlessly after about 30 to 60 seconds. However, we should note that the program takes up its fair share of system resources, and that load times will depend on your system hardware.
To make more than mere cosmetic changes, you'll have to install the publisher's SkinStudio. However, the latest version of WindowBlinds lets you use your own wallpaper, and being able to see your changes without restarting is a serious plus. WindowBlinds helps liven up any Windows experience for both novices and those advanced users who've got better things to do than hack Windows on their own.
Publisher's description
From Stardock :Customize the look and feel of Windows XP and Windows Vista with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. WindowBlinds 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) 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 and its design actually uses less memory and resources than the default Windows XP and Windows Vista visual styles. It also takes advantage of hardware acceleration on modern video cards to increase performance over the default Windows XP/Vista experience. Version 6.02 build 44x86 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version:
Version 6.02 build 44x86 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews of WindowBlinds 6.02 build 44x86
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 659 votes
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Version: WindowBlinds 6.02 build 44x86
"newbs like this kind of garbage"
Cons: anything from stardock is like anything from aol, huge and useless. most of the graphics are amateur at best, and no matter how much tuning you do it will still look cheap.
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Version: WindowBlinds 6.02 build 44x86
"Its Superb..................i give it 6 stars 5 stars are less for this......"
Pros: i like everything about this software.............
Cons: why this column is here???????
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Version: WindowBlinds 6.02 build 44x86
Pros: has some nice make over effects
Cons: program has conflictions with SP3 and has no where to enter in serial regestartion a problem that needs to be fixed for international customers
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Version: WindowBlinds 6.02 build 44x86
"It was okay for a trial program."
Pros: I like having the control of customizing.
Cons: The skins were too lame.
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