Windows 7 Themes and Beyond with WindowBlinds

Published on October 19, 2009 By Island Dog In OS Customization

Windows 7 has greatly improved its own theme capabilities, which are far better than you found in Windows XP or Vista. With Windows 7 you can now change the colors of theme, background, sounds, screensaver, etc. and even package those themes for sharing.

I have seen some nice combinations of themes, and it’s such a far departure from the Luna days most of us should remember. Even though the integrated Personalization options have widely grown over time, there are still limitations to be had. If you want to truly customize your desktop, third-party software is what you will need.

Being that the Windows 7 launch is in October, it’s also very close to the release of Object Desktop 2010, which includes huge updates like WindowBlinds 7. If you want to extend your personalization and customization needs beyond what Windows offers, this is what you want.

With WindowBlinds 7 you have many more options and features available for Windows 7.

Some of these include:

Advanced skinning options
Adjustable transparency
Textures
Re-coloring of skins in real-time
Changing of Explorer backgrounds
and much more!

Take a look at my current Windows 7 desktop using a skin created by a community member of WinCustomize.com.

Here is the same desktop with a texture applied to the skin. The customization options are nearly endless!

Comments (Page 1)

amitsaran

on Oct 19, 2009

Nice shots ID......some really good things coming up with Windows7 and WB 7

vStyler

on Oct 19, 2009

Hopefully there is no limitation on user imported texture sizes.. Ive seen quite a few screens now of new user textured themes and although I agree it is a nice option for the end user, the main thing that stands out to me is the obvious tiling of the textures.. it just doesnt look good to see the same texture patterns tiled accross a frame or start menu, frame... especially on a large monitor at something like 1920... the tiling would be really obvious.

I'm all for being able to texture as long as the texture size is not limited.

Neil Banfield

on Oct 19, 2009

The texture limit would be about 16000x16000 though that would be a bit large!

It is interesting to create textures from wallpapers using the create effect option.

vStyler

on Oct 19, 2009

Good to hear Neil.. well done old chap

Leo the Lion

on Oct 19, 2009

vStyler

reply 4

Good to hear Neil.. well done old chap

John you're showing your 'Britishness'........Old Chap.........Good for you..........Tally Hoo! Bandits at four o'oclock and all that!!!! Hehehehehe

Nice article ID

carlobee

on Oct 20, 2009

that looks awesome!

zakai1369

on Oct 20, 2009

It is interesting to create textures from wallpapers using the create effect option.

I tried this. I used a wallpaper to create a texture. If I go back to the create a texture section again the new .tga file shows up in the dropdown list but when I go back to the main interface it is not added to the pictured blocks of texture you see there.

Fuzzy Logic

on Oct 20, 2009

Tally Hoo

I think that should be 'Tally Ho!'

Neil Banfield

on Oct 20, 2009

zakai1369

reply 7

It is interesting to create textures from wallpapers using the create effect option.

I tried this. I used a wallpaper to create a texture. If I go back to the create a texture section again the new .tga file shows up in the dropdown list but when I go back to the main interface it is not added to the pictured blocks of texture you see there.

The blocks of texture will be based on the first texture in an effect, so if you have one texture on the frames and another on the taskbar, the mini preview will use the one for the frames.

Vampothika

on Oct 20, 2009

wow that texture idea is really cool! i love the concept!!

zakai1369

on Oct 20, 2009

The blocks of texture will be based on the first texture in an effect, so if you have one texture on the frames and another on the taskbar, the mini preview will use the one for the frames.

Ahh okay. It did have a blank one at the end that I couldn't see there until I clicked on it because I only set the texture for taskbar only and left the frames and start menu without one. I must have messed something up though because it seems it saved the texture as a blank image. I went through and did another one and it works fine. Thanks.

storm347

on Oct 20, 2009

nice ideas ID

winstar4

on Oct 21, 2009

Thanks

bk13GarbageMan

on Oct 21, 2009

Just wondering.......If someone wants to upload a texture, is there going to be a texture gallery on the new site, or are We going to have to put it into the graphics gallery????

holyfire1993

on Oct 25, 2009

I tried to apply bootskin vista onto windows 7 operating system it gives me permanent damage to my com. pls remind me if there is a bootskin for windows 7...Ahhhh!

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