Benefits of the full version
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WindowBlinds 3 Enhanced Registered Version | $19.95 |  |
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Object Desktop (suite of desktop enhancements that includes WindowBlinds) | $49.95 | |
WindowBlinds is the result of thousands of hours of hard work. If you find yourself using it, you need to purchase the full version. Purchasing it allows us to keep improving the program. A program such as WindowBlinds is very difficult to develop because of the thousands of different configurations people run their software on. We are constantly striving to make WindowBlinds better, faster, and easier to use.
To reward users who support our efforts, we add additional features into the full version. By default, WindowBlinds is designed to behave similarly to what users see in Windows XP's default new look behavior. That is, some GUI elements are not skinned and most existing applications are not supported. We also limit the extended WindowBlinds functions in the shareware version such as SmartButtons and the dynamic colorizing.
Because WindowBlinds is modeled after the Windows XP visual style framework, by default it only skins "theme aware" applications. Windows XP, for instance, does not apply its new visual style fully to most applications because they are not theme aware. Similarly, the shareware version does not either. The enhanced registered version, however, treats all applications as if they are theme aware.
On Windows 98/ME/2000 no applications are technically theme aware so we dynamically make selected applications theme aware so that users can get a taste of what a fully skinned application looks like.
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On Windows XP, existing applications are not fully skinned. Note how even Microsoft Word's scrollbars aren't skinned. Other popular utilities and applications are not fully skinned by either Windows XP or the shareware version of WindowBlinds.
With WindowBlinds 3 installed, here is what the same windows would look like with a different skin applied:
The Enhanced version of WindowBlinds for registered users can fully skin the entire GUI. Notice how Word's scrollbars are now skinned. The options dialogs of mIRC and FileSync are now fully skinned. mIRC's scrollbars are now skinned.
The shareware version of WindowBlinds disables the skinning for scrollbars, progress bars, and other GUI elements. The enhanced registered version skins these things and more.
Scrollbars
Progress bars
SmartButtons allow users to have configurable areas of the GUI. For instance, a user could configure a SmartButton to be a button that when pressed lists the 5 websites they visit most often. Or it might open their Quicklaunch. Stardock plans to continue to add a great deal of SmartButton options for registered users as time goes on.
Many WindowBlinds skins support dynamic colorizing. What this means is users can change the color of a skin on their own.
Stardock continues to enhance and extend WindowBlinds. Over time, more and more features will become part of the enhanced registered version as a way of thanking our customers. Be sure to vist http://www.wincustomize.com to select and download from over 1400 freely available WindowBlinds skins!
Visit http://www.windowblinds.net/order.html to purchase your copy of WindowBlinds today. You can also get WindowBlinds as part of Object Desktop (which is also available on the order page).