The History of WindowBlinds
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WindowBlinds was the first full GUI skinning program for Windows. It began development in 1997. And by 2001, thousands of skins/visual styles had been made for it and even influenced the development of Windows XP which includes a quasi-WindowBlindsLite type feature in it to change from classic to "Windows XP style".
This article goes over the history of WindowBlinds complete with screenshots of its evolution. Check it out!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane mate