WindowBlinds 5.5 Officially released! Customizing Vista Discuss WindowBlinds 5.5 Officially released! in the Windows Vista forums; enables users to customize the look and feel of the graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying "skins", WindowBlinds can change title bars, borders, push buttons, scroll ...

[Island Dog]

enables users to customize the look and feel of the graphical user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying "skins", WindowBlinds can change title bars, borders, push buttons, scroll bars, the taskbar, the Start menu and virtually every element of the Windows environment. Thousands of different skins exist and can be created using a free program called SkinStudio.

WindowBlinds 5.5 is a major update in that it is the first program to allow users to change the look and feel of Windows Vista. Thanks to a new technology called "SmartSkinning", WindowBlinds allows skins created for Windows XP to be used to skin Windows Vista. WindowBlinds 5.5 then transforms the skin, on-the-fly, to conform to the new user interface conventions of Windows Vista to give it a distinctly Windows Vista look and feel. Users of .msstyles files on Windows XP can use SkinStudio to convert their favorite .msstyles to WindowBlinds 5.5 to run natively on Windows Vista.

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[ProCookie]

ummmm is that spam????

[Island Dog]

No. WindowBlinds 5.5 has been released and it's the first program to allow skinning of Vista and I thought members here might be interested.

[ProCookie]

oh ok, well personaly i think Vista is nice enough as it is. Windows XP on the other hand was ugly, i allways used Windows Blinds on XP but vista has such a nice UI i wouldnt want to change it.

Having said that some other members might like to change the UI, so thanks for the info

[Island Dog]

Aero is nice, and I do like it, but I have using it for a while now so it's starting to wear off.

[Splicker]

I used windows blinds on XP also and it used lots of resources and annoyed me when i tried to uninstall it leaving rubbish behind. Why would anyone wish to change the Vista GUI its perfection as is how does windows blinds 5.5 run on vista has anyone tried it yet?

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