FILEnetworks Blog: Stardock WindowBlinds 6.004 Enhanced

WindowBlinds is a one-of-a-kind utility that allows Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying a new skin. There are thousands of different skins to choose from that are freely downloadable from the WindowBlinds website. A WindowBlinds skin can change Windows to look like an alternative operating system, favorite sports car brands, favorite sports team, or virtually anything else. With modern video cards, WindowBlinds can do this without reducing performance. WindowBlinds 6 adds the ability to have “blurred glass” window borders on Windows XP which allows artists to make skins that could make Windows XP look virtually identical to Windows Vista.

New in version 6:

New start menu animation support
Category filtering on skins in wbconfig
Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
Random skin support
The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instead of the entire skin
Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames. Has some limitations on XP
Ability to save such changes as a preset
Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
Ability to skin the sidebar
Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
Support for explorer background bitmaps
Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
Skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI
Clean and easy configuration dialog.
Tons of configuration options for users
Animation supported on titlebars, buttons, and many other elements.
Change the color of any visual style on the fly
Per-application visual styles
Doesn't alter any system files
Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of Windows