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WindowBlinds 7.3 Released!

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WindowBlinds 7.3 Released!

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WindowBlinds is a program that allows users of Windows 7, Vista, and XP to totally change the look and feel of the Windows GUI to anything they'd like by applying any of the thousands of free skins available.  WindowBlinds 7.3 adds a Windows 8 skin along with a Metro skin (for registered users) as well as enhancing skinning support for Office 2010, bug fixes, and a number of other updates.

The enhanced version, which allows on-the-fly recoloring of skins and access to more enhanced skins is $19.95 or can be purchased as part of Object Desktop, Stardock's flag-ship suite of desktop experience utilities for $49.95.

Users can download WindowBlinds 7.3 at www.windowblinds.net.

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time. 

 

We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler :D Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always).

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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

{quote]It occurs to me to ask you to post a screenshot.  Some monitors have terrible rendering of light colours and so off white and white look identical and in some themes the line colour and the document colour may be closer than in others.[/quote]

 

Well for some reason today, the gridlines are clearly rendered using ignore or don't ignore mode.  However, when allowing WB to skin Excel 2010, the minimize, maximize and close buttons don't work so I set ignore back on for now.  Oh wait, I did change the blind I'm using so your theory may be correct,  As a matter of fact I used Skin Studio to affect amsall chnage to Ravens Wood once before to make it more readable.  I'm using Bell, Book and Candle now (both by Casperrr).

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Awesome-

 

As I went right from XP to W7 - I would never had figured it out.

 

Best

 

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Impulse update was fine.

The dark Metro skin is beautiful. Dani? Use it for awhile. The effects are subtle. Love it. :thumbsup:

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Updated through my store account works great! I love the dark metro blind..I'm using it with Omnimo for rainmeter and it looks amazing!

Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting roflmfaoo, reply 51
I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time. 

 

We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always).
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Dunno about the others, but JJYing, I think, works for HP and probably has a full plate.

 

He has his own site too.

http://iconmoon.com/about.html 

 

And at DA.  

Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Essorant & vStyler remain very active skinners here.   Haven't seen any work from Mike in a long time.  Too long... very talented skinner.

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

roflmfaooreply 51I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time.  We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always). Dunno about the others, but JJYing, I think, works for HP and probably has a full plate.   He has his own site too. http://iconmoon.com/about.html    And at DA.
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I'm right here, I'm back working at Stardock and in fact I did this two skins ( thought the original design direction is from Microsoft).

I'm working some really cool stuff at SD and have some new (original) skins coming too, i hope you like it :)

Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

and what about Tiggz  ? who can forget GT3...

Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top

roflmfaooreply 51I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time.  We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always). Dunno about the others, but JJYing, I think, works for HP and probably has a full plate.   He has his own site too. http://iconmoon.com/about.html    And at DA.   I'm right here, I'm back working at Stardock and in fact I did this two skins ( thought the original design direction is from Microsoft). I'm working some really cool stuff at SD and have some new (original) skins coming too, i hope you like it
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Cool Dani! I hope it works with WB 7.2 since until I find out somehow why 7.3 alters my screen brightness I'll be stuck with 7.2

And sorry guys...everything else works fine...it's just 7.3 that caused that...so it has to be something with that since it fixed itself after rolling back. ;)

Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top

this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit

Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit
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Yeah, I had so many of my programs crash I just deleted everything except cursorFX.  It seemed expecially bad after I tried to opened Skin Studio 7 to adjust the horizontal button position to use Vista style positioning on a couple of blinds.  Skin Studio wouldn't open and after that I got all of these errors so I just uninstalled everything and tried again.  Same result. 

Maybe consideration should be given to operating system specific installation instead of trying to incorporate changes for upcoming operating systems which seem to screw the pooch.  It has to be difficult as internet browsers and mail programs seem to always be changing their interface plus having to allow for several operating systems in both 32 and 64 versions.  Still, I'm gonna take a break for a while.

Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting tanasii, reply 63
this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit

 

Yeah, I had so many of my programs crash I just deleted everything except cursorFX.  It seemed expecially bad after I tried to opened Skin Studio 7 to adjust the horizontal button position to use Vista style positioning on a couple of blinds.  Skin Studio wouldn't open and after that I got all of these errors so I just uninstalled everything and tried again.  Same result. 

Maybe consideration should be given to operating system specific installation instead of trying to incorporate changes for upcoming operating systems which seem to screw the pooch.  It has to be difficult as internet browsers and mail programs seem to always be changing their interface plus having to allow for several operating systems in both 32 and 64 versions.  Still, I'm gonna take a break for a while.
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It sounds like you had a skin with a coding error in it.  WB 7.3 became more sensitive to a coding problem but this should be resolved in the next update to WB which I think is going up this week.

Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 61
roflmfaooreply 51I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time.  We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always). Dunno about the others, but JJYing, I think, works for HP and probably has a full plate.   He has his own site too. http://iconmoon.com/about.html    And at DA.   I'm right here, I'm back working at Stardock and in fact I did this two skins ( thought the original design direction is from Microsoft). I'm working some really cool stuff at SD and have some new (original) skins coming too, i hope you like it

Cool Dani! I hope it works with WB 7.2 since until I find out somehow why 7.3 alters my screen brightness I'll be stuck with 7.2

And sorry guys...everything else works fine...it's just 7.3 that caused that...so it has to be something with that since it fixed itself after rolling back.
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Based on the lack of other people reporting similar things and my knowledge of how WB works I believe your issue was just chance it happened with the WB update.  It could be you have an app running at startup which changes the brightness settings, but in that case I would expect to see a crash dialog if WB were crashing it before it could change your settings.

Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RoodVargas, reply 62
this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit
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Change your skin to another one and disable recolouring and see if that helps.

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

An updated 7.30.047 version is available via the My Accounts page on the Stardock store. I will see about updating the Impulse build on Friday. There are a couple of specific compatibility fixes and a bunch of updates to the Win8 Metro skin (Windows XP and Office 2007 oddities in particular).

Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

An updated 7.30.047 version is available
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Thanx for the new version.

My issue with Deskscapes 3 is solved.

Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Is it possible to force skin IE9 buttons and tabs?