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WindowBlinds 4 Released!

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WindowBlinds 4 Released!

http://www.windowblinds.net
from WinCustomize Forums
WindowBlinds 4 has some great new features including:



* Command prompt skinning

* Skinning of virtually every element of the Windows XP GUI

* Skinning of the logoff, shellstyles, and please wait dialogs

* Smart painting - makes most WindowBlinds enhanced visual styles run nearly as fast as "classic"

* Enhanced integration into Windows XP greatly increasing compatibility with nearly all programs

* A new configuration program that makes the features of WindowBlinds more accessible than ever

* Settings for control of the Windows XP start bar. Now you can have a skinny start bar with any visual style

* Native integration into Remote Desktop and graphics acceleration by most video cards



These new features add to the already impressive WindowBlinds feature set that includes:

* Change the color of your visual style on the fly

* Gamma correction on visual styles

* Skinning of non-theme aware applications

* Hyperpaint - uses the extra memory in your video card to buffer to increase performance

* Additional controls in the title bar such as MP3 players, roll-up buttons, always on top buttons, minimize to tray, and much more

* Associate sound effects with title bar buttons

* Have animated title bars, buttons and more

* Powerful enhanced visual style format that allows placement of buttons any place on a window edge as well as independently sized window borders

* Much more!



Users who purchased WindowBlinds 3 since the beginning of the year can upgrade for free. Just visit https://www.stardock.com/support.asp and type in your email address.



Other users of WindowBlinds 3 can upgrade to version 4 for only $10 for a limited time.

Visit http://www.windowblinds.net/wb4upgrade.asp to upgrade.



All other users can purchase WindowBlinds 4 at: https://www.stardock.com/order.asp?product=Windowblinds for $19.95.



WindowBlinds is part of Stardock''s Object Desktop which is $49.95 and includes WindowBlinds 4 plus DesktopX, ObjectBar, IconPackager, WinStyles, and much more plus a year''s worth of updates to them.

A shareware version of WindowBlinds 4 will be released next week.
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yeah UIS1 works great on programs that don't want to skin well (like photoshop and other graphic programs).

If UIS1 don't work, then just exclude the program.
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What does UIS stand for anyways? I'll have to give it a try on the programs I had previously excluded from being skinned.
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Universal Interface Specification, I believe. There's UIS1 (which should really be UIS1++) and UIS2, which came before it. Confusing, no? *g*

See http://www.windowblinds.net/skinning/skinformats.html for full details of the differences.
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ah hah! So that's what it is. Thanks

I didn't know there was that much info about it..
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't understand it. Am I the only one having nothing but problems with 4.0? I try to access Control Panel from the start menu and it doesn't appear. Switching between Window Blinds, my system freezes. Had no problems with previous versions. Running XP on a 1.5MHZ with 256MB ram and G-Force II. Any ideas?
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Richrap, Have you tried reinstalling or re-downloading WB4? Did you uninstall/unload your previous version of WB?

I don't know what else could be causing those problems..
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"The version for Windows 9x/2000 will be released around the beginning of summer. We have said this is the case for some time now.
by Citizen Neil Banfield - 4/9/2003 6:37:38 AM"

Well, actually, wbxp was promised at an earlier date with 95\98\me to be released this spring. I renewed my OD subscription in Jan. Looks like I'll have missed out on half of what I paid for. *Sigh*
but on the bright side, I have SDC, which I enjoy thoroughly!
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Very Nice!! but I still get an error when opening any spreadsheet documents, Of course any version of WB's caused me a problem there. I like the new interface and will always be a fan of Stardock and the apps
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What error do you get when opening spreadsheets?

And which app do you use for those?