WindowBlinds 7.3 Released!

Published on October 12, 2011 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

WindowBlinds is a program that allows users of Windows 7, Vista, and XP to totally change the look and feel of the Windows GUI to anything they'd like by applying any of the thousands of free skins available. WindowBlinds 7.3 adds a Windows 8 skin along with a Metro skin (for registered users) as well as enhancing skinning support for Office 2010, bug fixes, and a number of other updates.

The enhanced version, which allows on-the-fly recoloring of skins and access to more enhanced skins is $19.95 or can be purchased as part of Object Desktop, Stardock's flag-ship suite of desktop experience utilities for $49.95.

Users can download WindowBlinds 7.3 at www.windowblinds.net.

Comments (Page 5)

WebGizmos

on Oct 18, 2011

Cool Dani! I hope it works with WB 7.2 since until I find out somehow why 7.3 alters my screen brightness I'll be stuck with 7.2

And sorry guys...everything else works fine...it's just 7.3 that caused that...so it has to be something with that since it fixed itself after rolling back.

RoodVargas

on Oct 18, 2011

this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit

eagleyelgae

on Oct 20, 2011

this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit

Yeah, I had so many of my programs crash I just deleted everything except cursorFX. It seemed expecially bad after I tried to opened Skin Studio 7 to adjust the horizontal button position to use Vista style positioning on a couple of blinds. Skin Studio wouldn't open and after that I got all of these errors so I just uninstalled everything and tried again. Same result.

Maybe consideration should be given to operating system specific installation instead of trying to incorporate changes for upcoming operating systems which seem to screw the pooch. It has to be difficult as internet browsers and mail programs seem to always be changing their interface plus having to allow for several operating systems in both 32 and 64 versions. Still, I'm gonna take a break for a while.

Neil Banfield

on Oct 20, 2011

tanasii

reply 63

this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit

Yeah, I had so many of my programs crash I just deleted everything except cursorFX. It seemed expecially bad after I tried to opened Skin Studio 7 to adjust the horizontal button position to use Vista style positioning on a couple of blinds. Skin Studio wouldn't open and after that I got all of these errors so I just uninstalled everything and tried again. Same result.

Maybe consideration should be given to operating system specific installation instead of trying to incorporate changes for upcoming operating systems which seem to screw the pooch. It has to be difficult as internet browsers and mail programs seem to always be changing their interface plus having to allow for several operating systems in both 32 and 64 versions. Still, I'm gonna take a break for a while.

It sounds like you had a skin with a coding error in it. WB 7.3 became more sensitive to a coding problem but this should be resolved in the next update to WB which I think is going up this week.

Neil Banfield

on Oct 20, 2011

WebGizmos

reply 61

roflmfaooreply 51I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time. We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always). Dunno about the others, but JJYing, I think, works for HP and probably has a full plate. He has his own site too. http://iconmoon.com/about.html And at DA. I'm right here, I'm back working at Stardock and in fact I did this two skins ( thought the original design direction is from Microsoft). I'm working some really cool stuff at SD and have some new (original) skins coming too, i hope you like it

Cool Dani! I hope it works with WB 7.2 since until I find out somehow why 7.3 alters my screen brightness I'll be stuck with 7.2

And sorry guys...everything else works fine...it's just 7.3 that caused that...so it has to be something with that since it fixed itself after rolling back.

Based on the lack of other people reporting similar things and my knowledge of how WB works I believe your issue was just chance it happened with the WB update. It could be you have an app running at startup which changes the brightness settings, but in that case I would expect to see a crash dialog if WB were crashing it before it could change your settings.

Neil Banfield

on Oct 20, 2011

RoodVargas

reply 62

this new WB version doesn't work correctly. crashing my explorer in win7 64bit

Change your skin to another one and disable recolouring and see if that helps.

Nakor

on Oct 20, 2011

An updated 7.30.047 version is available via the My Accounts page on the Stardock store. I will see about updating the Impulse build on Friday. There are a couple of specific compatibility fixes and a bunch of updates to the Win8 Metro skin (Windows XP and Office 2007 oddities in particular).

ablev12

on Oct 21, 2011

An updated 7.30.047 version is available

Thanx for the new version.

My issue with Deskscapes 3 is solved.

RoodVargas

on Oct 21, 2011

Is it possible to force skin IE9 buttons and tabs?

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