StarDock WindowBlinds Reaches 10 Million Downloads

Stardock marked the 10 millionth download of popular skinning software WindowBlinds by releasing WindowBlinds 5.01. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to completely change the look and feel of Microsoft Windows. With it, users can apply "skins" that change the existing Windows graphical user interface (GUI) across the entire system. Title bars, push buttons, radio buttons, the Start bar, and nearly every other part of the Windows interface is changed. WindowBlinds 5.01 improves performance on X64 based systems, adds support for wallpaper management, taskbar blurring, IE 7 support, and various tweaks, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.

WindowBlinds is used by companies such as Microsoft, nVidia, ATI, Nintendo, Blizzard, Alienware and many others to create their own custom desktops. The most recent addition to WindowBlinds fans is Xbox 360 Desktop, which uses WindowBlinds to create an xBox themed desktop. Companies also license WindowBlinds-based technology in the form of DirectSkin to make their own applications skinnable. For example, the ATI Catalyst Control Center uses WindowBlinds for its skinning and GE Medical uses it to create skinnable applications.

WindowBlinds has skinning features not thought possible on Windows XP or before. The most popular of which is that WindowBlinds can support alpha blending in skins (glass effects and other visual enhancements in title bars and controls) as well as animation, shadows, sound effects, and more. document.write('');

It can be downloaded at www.windowblinds.net. WindowBlinds can be registered on its own for $19.95 or as part of Stardock's award-winning suite of desktop utilities Object Desktop (www.objectdesktop.com).

About Stardock: 

Stardock is the world's leading developer of Windows enhancement utilities. Its software is used by over 10 million people worldwide and has been licensed by trendsetting companies like nVidia, ATI, Alienware and Microsoft, plus in movies and TV. Stardock operates WinCustomize.com, the premier portal for Windows enhancement drawing more than 3 million unique visitors each month, in addition to one of the world's largest blogging communities, JoeUser.com, where the company provides a popular freeware blog-reading program called Blog Navigator. Stardock is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. The company s website is www.stardock.com.

Author:  

Email:    

Topic:    

Content:

Related Computer Hardware Articles

• BCP Extends Major IBM Services Contract by 37 Million Euro
  17 March 2006



• Philanthropist Lois Pope Challenges States To Raise $5 Million, Which She Will Match, For American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial
  2 March 2006



• Cingular Wireless Investing More Than $210 Million in Its North Carolina Network in 2006
  24 February 2006



• Radyne Receives $1.3 Million Satellite Modem Order
  22 February 2006



• One Year of Podcasting -- A Quarter Million Downloads 'The Sound of Young America' Stands at a Crossroads: Is Podcasting a New Road to Susta
  19 February 2006



• Websense Master Database Grows to More than 15 Million Active Websites
  14 February 2006



• Kasenna Raises $11 Million of Growth Capital
  8 February 2006



• IBM, ISOGON Corporation, Sued For $10 Million For Sexual Harassment and Retaliatory Discharge
  6 February 2006



• AMD News:AMD And HP Generate More Than $2 Million For The Lance Armstrong Foundation
  30 January 2006



• 2X to Give Away 1 Million Free Thin Clients
  21 January 2006