Does WindowBlinds 3.95 beta Work???????

I love it. It has been really smooth for me. Drawbacks? Lots of skins need updating to it, but they work fine -- just not with the extras.

I think that WB 3.95 beta is still only for Win XP.

3.95 adds new parts that are skinned like the logoff dialogs. Adding those seems to have sacrificed parts that don't skin any longer like the backgrounds. Dialog, toolbar, MDI, etc doesn't skin anymore.

IMO this version should be called Windowblinds ME and the next version made instead of this one.

Sally...clearly you have never been involved with Alphas and Betas of programs.
Often parts will be disabled or not-yet implimented.
Remember...it is not a general release version, OK?...

See there. That explains a lot.

I have installed every version that has been released and none worked right and I was beginning to imagine that the final release would be the same.

However, SkinStudio is not final yet and every version that is released keeps getting better and better. I was hoping wb would be like that also.

Polyphemus: Since you have Windows 2000, Windowblinds 4 won't install on your system anyway. But even if it did, you wouldn't get much benefit out of it since its main features apply to Windows XP visuals only (such as the Shellstyle, the dialogs, etc.).

Delicous, that's what beta programs are. Testings, fixing. On some systems they work fine, on smoe others they don't. Every version of the alpha has worked almost flawlessly for me, but yet, some other people have problems. Some have seen their problems fixed, some haven't. And that's why it's still in beta.

Beta testers ....

i have heard the name: POLYPHEMUS some where...

hey...its the one-eyed cyclops hero in AOM right?

I have the screenshot of the messed up IE toobar and I camt find the thread with the place to send it.

Sally, go here news://news.stardock.com/ and subxcribe to one of the windowblinds binaries newsgroups........... don't send images to any non binaries newsgroup there. I'm sure someone will help you there.

Quick question. Can a virus be transmitted through a newsgroup like it can an email?

Or

Is there any way to receive newsgroups using Outlook. Not OE but Office Outlook. The group keeps reverting to OE and I hate OE.

FWIW I narrowed down the problem to the area of the chevron. Seems they are not skinning and causing the areas around them to mess up.

Just loaded WB 3.96 (aka WB 4) and it is running fine.
Great new interface as well.......9.5/10 to the team behind it.

i made a tough decision today

i don't use windows much at all, i was using win98 for the little work in windows that i DID do. i specifically upgraded to win2k so that i could get the benefit of the new features of windowblinds (that's how much i like windowblinds

i can see the writing on the wall....that skinning tools and programs will eventually leave all versions of windows behind and be generally xp only...

i will never run xp, so i can see i'm going to miss out on anything really fancy that windowblinds does for xp...

what i'd really like to see is a 'farewell to win2k cd' when early versions of windows are left behind...

I run Outlook 2000 and yes it uses the newsreader from OE. As far as I know that is your only option unless you get a separate newsreader program.

As far as Wb4 I like the possibilities. Just wish I could see it more evident in the skins I use, but I understand it takes time to add that to them, if the skin authors ever do. And definitely a lot nicer configuration section for it.

I also think that as WB4 is more tailored directly towards XP it will run much smoother than any version yet.

Polyphemus: If you get ObjectBar, then, along with WB4 (the version for everything other than XP coming out later this year), you can get almost the same experience.