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WindowBlinds
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WindowBlinds - Description
WindowBlinds is part of Object Desktop that can change the look and feel of the Windows graphical user interface.
It changes the title bars, borders, push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, Start bar and other elements of the Windows interface.
It does this by loading “Visual styles”. Windows XP, by default, comes with a single visual style “Windows XP style” with 3 flavors – blue,
silver, and olive. WindowBlinds enables users to add more visual styles to their system.
WindowBlinds also gives Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows ME users the ability to have visual styles on their computers as well.
Its part of the Object Desktop pack that contain:
WindowBlinds,
IconPackager,
WindowFX,
SkinStudio,
IconDeveloper,
ObjectBar,
DesktopX,
Keyboard LaunchPad,
Stardock Central,
Theme Manager,
Object Zip,
Object Edit,
Tab LaunchPad,
DriveScan,
Object Sweeper,
Spring Folders,
Component Tray.
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WindowBlinds - Highlights
1. Enables users to add visual styles to Windows
2. WindowBlinds visual styles can radically change the Windows GUI
3. Can change the color or brightness of a visual style on the fly
4. Allows additional title bar buttons to be added (roll-up, always on top, MP3 player controls, etc.).
5. Allows users to change their Internet Explorer and Explorer toolbar icons
6. Allows users to change their Windows progress animations
7. Supports hardware acceleration in nVidia and ATI cards to improve system performance
8. Right mouse click on title bar can be used to minimize applications
9. Supports different visual styles for different programs.
10. Can skin non-theme aware applications
11. Can skin the Windows command prompt
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WindowBlinds - review
from PCworld review: "...Do you look at your screen and say to yourself,
"Could my desktop be any more generic?" With this shell enhancement, you can tweak the style of its title
bars, buttons, toolbars, and other items, making your computing experience as personal as you'd like it to be.
Create and customize your own skins or download any of the ones available, and create your own themes from
your favorite TV show, holiday, operating system, and so on. You can also use it to make your files and applications
more accessible by adding buttons (roll-up buttons, always-on-top buttons, program launching buttons, menus, and
so on). Use the available plug-ins that users have made for it to control your MP3 player, keep track of the time, or
display whatever other information or controls you'd like to have integrated as a native part of Windows. ..."
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