Today we are happy to announce an update to the WindowBlinds 7 Beta.  The WindowBlinds 7 beta is currently available for active subscribers to Object Desktop, and can be downloaded via Stardock’s Impulse. 

New in this update:

  1. XP toolbar & animations settings are back in the UI. They are under Settings now
  2. On Vista the sidebar skin settings are back in the UI. Also under Settings.
  3. Explorer backgrounds tab has been added to the UI. This will show on XP, Vista AND Windows 7.
  4. New Textures tab added to the UI.
  5. Support for enlarged menus on Vista / 7
  6. Some additional skin sections added for Vista / 7 including new shadow sections.
  7. The fixes for the start button clipping on multiple monitor Win7 boxes are in this build. 
  8. The old WB UI has a bigger button for the new UI and says Beta 2 rather than Beta 1. 
  9. You can drag wallpapers to the large preview area and it will copy them into the wallpapers folder off WB skins as it used to in WB6. Note that its the large preview area and NOT the list itself.
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on Sep 21, 2009
How do you change the GUI to WB7? Mine is showing WB6. It was posted how to do this once, but even tried to search and can't find how. Can someone please tell me? Thank you.


There should be a button in the upper right-hand side.

Hopefully user generated textures can be added.


They can. 
on Sep 21, 2009
Were can i get windowsblinds 7 please tell me how. Thank you
on Sep 21, 2009
No button in the upper right, I made a shortcut to SevenConfig so I can change it.
on Sep 21, 2009

Hopefully user generated textures can be added.





They can.

Tell me how, please....been trying.

on Sep 21, 2009
Were can i get windowsblinds 7 please tell me how. Thank you


You need to be an active Object Desktop subscriber to get access to the beta.

http://www.objectdesktop.com
on Sep 21, 2009

No button in the upper right, I made a shortcut to SevenConfig so I can change it.

 

on Sep 21, 2009
Woops there is a button to change it.
on Sep 21, 2009
Wow.. Thank you.. Is it possible to add textures & backgrounds?? Thanks anyway.. Brilliant....
on Sep 21, 2009

It still doesn't make toast

on Sep 21, 2009

On Vista:

  • Textures: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds\Textures
  • Backgrounds: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds\Vista Images\Textures

Have fun

on Sep 21, 2009
Quite nice.

Textures are very cool

Also reporting that, for me also, explorer backgrounds aren't working in win7.
on Sep 21, 2009

No problems here on Win 7 everything works well!

Thanks for the update.

on Sep 21, 2009

If you are having problems with explorer backgrounds on Windows 7, can you post the version WindowBlinds shows on the about box please and if you are on 32 or 64 bit.

on Sep 21, 2009
Having problems in this release in Windows XP 32-bit whenever I use some of the textures and the transparency functions, all skins applied are messed up, solid colors in areas of the start menu, taskbar has vertical lines in it, frames go solid color, etc. A reboot put everything back to normal though. WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 79 x86) WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins. (Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 Wblind.dll 2009/08/28 19:21:20 Wbsrv.dll 2009/08/28 19:21:18 SevenConfig.exe 2009/09/15 13:57:23 Wbload.exe 2009/08/03 12:38:10 Wbhelp.dll 2009/03/24 17:04:07 Wbui.dll 2009/03/24 17:04:05 Tray.dll 2009/08/03 12:38:19 Screen.exe 2009/08/28 19:21:05
on Sep 21, 2009

On Vista:


Textures: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds\Textures
Backgrounds: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds\Vista Images\Textures
Have fun

But does it only accept .TGA and .texture? And if so, how does one make a texture file? I don't know what program makes .texture files?

Will .png and .jpg work?

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