Galactic Civilizations IV was recently announced and is the newest installment of its award-winning space 4X strategy sandbox game series takes the best of what its predecessors had to offer and adds to it with many new and exciting features. As the all-powerful leader of a spacefaring civilization, the player must seek out new star systems and discover the exciting potential of the subspace realm.  Learn more about the game here:  https://www.galciv4.com/ To help celebrate...

The WindowBlinds gallery has been updated with quite a few new and updated skins from some of our talented community skinners lately! I wanted to feature some of them in the news this week in case you might have missed them. Download these and see many more in the WindowBlinds gallery here . 7 for 10   Windows Zero   Simple Gray   50s Style  

As we close in on the first days of summer, it's always fun to pick and feature some of our favorite wallpapers that you can use on your desktop. Of course, there's no reason you can't download these and use them on your various mobile devices as well! Here are five of our favorite summer wallpapers! Seaside Relaxation   Canopy on the Beach   Rolling Wave   Tropical Beach from Above   Summer Countryside ...

We are less than a month away from the official start of summer, and we've been talking about it over the past few weeks here. Last week, we looked at some animated wallpapers for you beach lovers, and today we'll look at some WindowBlinds skins for that same summer theme. If you have a favorite skin that you use for summer, let us know in the comments below and be sure to post them in our monthly desktop screenshot thread here . Beach   Summer Green ...

It seems like not long ago we were posting this similar article about spring. Well summer arrives in a little over a month, and I think it's going to be a hot one. Summer is a fun season to skin as there are a variety of WindowBlinds skins, animated wallpapers for DeskScapes , CursorFX themes and more you can use! There are also plenty of landscape wallpapers to have your desktop feel like it's on a tropical vacation. We'll be showing off and featuring more summer inspired skins soon,...

It's May and that means it's time for another monthly desktop screenshot thread in the forums! Are you getting a summer desktop ready yet, or sticking with more of a spring theme? Let us know and post your desktop in the forum and lets us know what skins you are using! Post your desktops to the monthly thread here:  https://forums.wincustomize.com/504755/ (This is a news thread and will be locked. Screenshot taken by 2of3)

Master skinner and long-time WinCustomize member 2of3 has been sharing some awesome WindowBlinds skins, and I wanted to feature some of them in the news this week.  Thanks for creating these wonderful themes, and we can't wait to see more!   Gekko   Sovereign   Cole   Radiolux  

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a trending color called Electric Tangerine. I think it's a beautiful spring and summer color, and I think at least a few of you agreed. 2of3 and don5318 have released WindowBlinds skins that have some of that color integrated in the design. These are both fantastic skins so be sure to check them both out! Cole by 2of3   Tangerine II by don5318 Thanks for taking time to create and share these skins with the WinCustom...

We've mentioned spring desktop wallpapers recently, but of course there's much more you can do for spring than just change your wallpaper.  One of my favorite skins to use for spring is from don5318 called Simple Green . This is a nice WindowBlinds skin that has an overall minimal design, but with beautiful touches of spring colors sprinkled in. Not specifically designed for spring, but Reality by LightStar  has a perfect color scheme that matches well with a bunch of s...

We have been producing some additional triggered animated wallpapers for DeskScapes. Some of these are video based .dreams and some are more dynamic using still images that will change over the course of a day.  There are more coming out, but I wanted to highlight a few to start the week off. See more animated wallpapers for DeskScapes here . Looking Up at the Sky Day and night sky triggered animated wallpaper of a "looking up" scene in the mountains. Day at th...

Looking at the Curtains gallery this week, and I wanted to highlight the top 3 Curtains themes that are available to download here on WinCustomize. Curtains comes with several great styles already installed, but if you want to branch out then come see what other members have been downloading recently. If you don't have Curtains yet, download it here:  Stardock Curtains Transparent/Blur/Aero/Glass by DestinyChild   Play by danioc   PVC Da...

I've obtained the top download lists from 2020 and have been going through them. I'm going to be making several posts about them, but today I wanted to start with CursorFX . It was an exciting year for CursorFX as we released v4 back in April.  So, let's take a look at the most downloaded CursorFX themes on WinCustomize for 2020! Hal 2030 by theAVMAN was the top CursorFX download in 2020! Piranha FX by neone6  and Oberon 7 by Vampthothika came in as the 2nd and 3r...

Valentine's Day is approaching in a few weeks, and I thought it would be fun to feature some of the Valentine's Day inspired skins and themes here on WinCustomize. Do you add Valentine's skins to your desktop?   Happy Valentines Day by vlad (Wallpaper)   Valentines Day by danilloOc (Start buttons)   Valentine Hearts by AzDude (Dream)   My Dirty Valentine by Vampothika (CursorFX)     ...

On behalf of the teams at WinCustomize and Stardock, we'd like to wish our fantastic community a Happy New Year! 2020 has been an.....interesting......year, so let's look forward to 2021 and make it a great one! Do you have any New Year plans?

The Christmas and the rest of the holiday season is just about here, and we've been talking about and featuring holiday skins for weeks! So now lets show off those holiday creations and see what beautiful seasonal desktops you have displayed! Head over to our December screenshot thread and post your holiday desktop! December Holiday Desktop Thread Screenshot by Chasbo