WindowBlinds 7 – Beta 2 Released!

Published on August 5, 2009 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Stardock is excited to announce the release of Beta 2 for WindowBlinds 7. WindowBlinds is an application that lets users change the look and feel of Windows XP, Vista, and now Windows 7 by applying themes (also known as skins). This latest beta release introduces a wide range of improvements and features over earlier betas.

This beta 2 update includes:

Live previews. See the changes you make in settings in real-time
Completely new user interface which includes grab and throw scrolling, reflections, and a simpler layout.
Improved Windows 7 support
Improved skin coloring (see video)
Improved sub-style selections, and skin search


New UI	Skin coloring

WindowBlinds 7 – Beta 2 is available for download via Stardock’s Impulse for Object Desktop subscribers. Purchase WindowBlinds 6 now, and you will get the upgrade to WindowBlinds 7 for free when released!

For more information, please visit www.windowblinds.net.

Comments (Page 1)

ZubaZ

on Aug 05, 2009

I love being able to click and drag to navigate the skins. Very cool.

Who else is clicking and dragging just to watch them slide?

Neil Banfield

on Aug 05, 2009

I may have spent a little time dragging things around, but far less time than I spent maximizing and minimizing windows with WindowFX 2.

Wizard1956

on Aug 05, 2009

Who else is clicking and dragging just to watch them slide?

Cameochi

on Aug 05, 2009

Why are we still stuck in the age of black and gray? I like the functionality of the new interface but aren't we into themes, graphics and color? The black and gray looks like shades of the built-in Vista theme that I intensely disliked. That's why I purchased Window Blinds and Skin Studio. I wanted to escape from black and gray into the world of full color. Perhaps we will have some options in the future?

CarGuy1

on Aug 05, 2009

Neil Banfield

reply 2

I may have spent a little time dragging things around, but far less time than I spent maximizing and minimizing windows with WindowFX 2.

Neil, I believe you really enjoy teasing us.

bmetelsky

on Aug 05, 2009

Very nice update! Thanks.

neophil78

on Aug 05, 2009

Nice to get a resing interface

But where are gone some options like Explorer Backgrounds, Toolbar icons, Animations and some others like the "never use per pixel borders on a skin" ?

N.B: still the same trouble with the "Google button" in taskbar ==> https://forums.wincustomize.com/358671

Neil Banfield

on Aug 06, 2009

The Explorer backgrounds tabs is not yet in the UI. The Toolbar icons & Animations settings will probably go on a new tab off the settings dialog rather than in the main UI. For now you can set them using the old UI (and likewise the never use per pixel borders option)

c242

on Aug 06, 2009

Hm, for me per application does not work with this beta. I have this one app that always crashes when resizing windows. But it is a very special ERP-app, so I didn't report that one but instead used per app.

c242

on Aug 06, 2009

UPDATE : It seems that we have different per app settings in the old and the new interface ? I can see the setting in the old interface but I had to add it also in the new. A bit strange, isn't it ?

Neil Banfield

on Aug 06, 2009

Per app settings are identical between the two UIs.

neophil78

on Aug 06, 2009

OK, i was afraid that he new version would be out of these

Quokka1979

on Aug 06, 2009

I'm still running beta 1, don't seem to find beta 2 in impulse

ZubaZ

on Aug 06, 2009

In case you haven't noticed when running Windows7:

This one is for you JRRCIVIC98

OrderMoD

on Aug 06, 2009

How do I download it, I have an object deskto subscription, but I don't see the option to update windowsblind to 7 beta 2 on impulse, any tip will be appreciated.

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