Today we updated your Object Desktop subscription with the WindowBlinds 7.90 beta. Featuring Windows® 8 / 7 support, an all-new user interface and performance enhancements.

Current Object Desktop subscribers
Visit your Stardock account now to download the beta and you will also have free access to the final release version in the near future.

Note: WindowBlinds 7.90 beta supports Windows 7 and 8 only.

Info about upgrades for current WindowBlinds (non-Object Desktop) customers will be available at a later date.

 

The new WindowBlinds 8 UI

The new WindowBlinds 8 UI

 

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WindowBlinds 8 running on Windows 8 with Start8

 

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WindowBlinds 8 running on Windows 7


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on May 20, 2013

I copied all of my skins from my backup folder to the new windowblinds folder and they don't show up. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

on May 20, 2013

Michael Lyman

I copied all of my skins from my backup folder to the new windowblinds folder and they don't show up. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

You need to use the rebuild list option in WB. Click the icon at the top left to access the menu.

on May 20, 2013

Thanks! That worked.

on May 22, 2013

Thank you STARDOCK!! I have been waiting for this. After I installed it someone ask me why my Windows 8 looked better than the one they had at home. I just smiled.....

on May 25, 2013

Michael Lyman

Thanks! That worked.

It was too late for me. I've paid my last subscription with Stardock. I jumped on an OD subscription after receiving a promotional email back in November, that  -- at a first glance -- seemed to promise WB for Windows 8. Lots of people here seem to have done the same thing. When it turned out that just about the only piece of functionality that actually worked with Windows 8, was Start8 there was no apology, no refund, just "it'll come when it comes,  you should have read the fine print".  There were new posts in the forum on this theme almost every day, many of them removed. I essentially missed out on 60% of my subscription period, so I feel ripped off, cheated and badly treated. Stardock really missed the train.

on May 25, 2013

cordelia0507
you should have read the fine print

 

Stardock didn't miss any train. You simply failed to get all available information before purchasing.

on May 25, 2013

cordelia0507
many of them removed
In my opinion,It's a shame you didn't go with them.

cordelia0507
you should have read the fine print"
You should have read, Period. You claimed you had no time for that. Strange that you seem to have plenty of time to complain and make accusations though.

There has been plenty of value and functionality in ODNT since November, even for Win 8 adopters. Stardock introduced some great enhancements for the new OS. Just because you didn't get the one thing you wanted, all the rest meant nothing to you. Now you finally get what you were demanding at the time, WindowBlinds for Windows 8 and yet, you still find reason to be a malcontent. No train here, but the waaamubulance is waiting.

 

on May 25, 2013

Wizard1956


Quoting cordelia0507, reply 20 many of them removed In my opinion,It's a shame you didn't go with them.


Quoting cordelia0507, reply 20you should have read the fine print"You should have read, Period. You claimed you had no time for that. Strange that you seem to have plenty of time to complain and make accusations though.

There has been plenty of value and functionality in ODNT since November, even for Win 8 adopters. Stardock introduced some great enhancements for the new OS. Just because you didn't get the one thing you wanted, all the rest meant nothing to you. Now you finally get what you were demanding at the time, WindowBlinds for Windows 8 and yet, you still find reason to be a malcontent. No train here, but the waaamubulance is waiting.

 

 

Ok, right.     That's exactly what I would say if I was a paid Stardock evangelist. A lot of people here speak that way. Normal people who are not paid evangelists would ignore a rant, or agreed, As countless regular (non-groupies/evangelists) did. 

It seems to be a complete shock to everyone here that normal consumers get angry if they feel they are not getting what they paid for, and not getting good customer service.I normally don't whinge about stuff I but my experience with Stardock has been on a downhill slope since my initial good experience back in 2006 or about then.

I'm having constant license trouble with Stardock products, and then the 8 month wait for a beta version of Windowblinds with no offer for a refund after I politely raised my complaints. Since Stardock obviously doesn't care much about keeping me as a customer I won't be troubling it with my tiresome business once my subscription expires.

 

 

on May 25, 2013

Wizard is neither normal or a paid Stardock evangelist. Just saying....

on May 25, 2013

First and foremost, I am not paid by or represent Stardock in any way shape or form. Opinions expressed are soley my own.

You expressed your opinion about Stardock, I am also entitled to mine, plain and simple.

Secondly, I find most people to be a very poor judge of what "normal" is for me or anyone else for that matter.  Your claim that you are a "normal consumer" and"normally don't whinge"  tells me your standards for normal are far from mine.  You would therefore be far down the list for such an evaluation.

You got what you paid for when you renewed, you just didn't get what you expected, based on your own failure to investigate all the details which is NOT the same thing. I suspect your  "constant license trouble with Stardock products" stems from your same lack of attention to details.

Now, if only the beta could run for the remaining 40%

 

 

 

 

on May 25, 2013

RedneckDude

Wizard is neither normal or a paid Stardock evangelist. Just saying...

I was born next to Normal, but that is as close as I ever got and sadly, I'm still not a paid anything.

I do offer my services as a troubleshooter and smartass free to all takers though.

 Next to Normal

on May 25, 2013

Stardock has been more than helpful every time I have needed it. Cordelia you obviously didn't read the clear print about what was promised when you renewed. There are several products that work on Windows 8 now, so you have what you paid for. If you don't renew your OD subscription you will still have the software and updates that you paid for. No, I do not work for Stardock either.

on Jun 11, 2013

I seem to have an issue the new WindowBlinds for Windows 8.  This involves taskbars on secondary monitors.  Whenever I apply a skin via WindowBlinds the secondary taskbar on the secondary monitors keeps jumping up and down like a kangaroo.  Up, blink, down, up, blink, down... like a kangaroo.

on Jun 11, 2013

trparky
I seem to have an issue the new WindowBlinds for Windows 8.  This involves taskbars on secondary monitors.  Whenever I apply a skin via WindowBlinds the secondary taskbar on the secondary monitors keeps jumping up and down like a kangaroo.  Up, blink, down, up, blink, down... like a kangaroo.

This should be posted in the beta bug thread where it will be seen by the right people. https://forums.wincustomize.com/444609/page/10/#3369938

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