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WindowBlinds™ 7.90 beta is available for download now!

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WindowBlinds™ 7.90 beta is available for download now!

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Today we updated your Object Desktop subscription with the WindowBlinds 7.90 beta. Featuring Windows® 8 / 7 support, an all-new user interface and performance enhancements.

Current Object Desktop subscribers
Visit your Stardock account now to download the beta and you will also have free access to the final release version in the near future.

Note: WindowBlinds 7.90 beta supports Windows 7 and 8 only.

Info about upgrades for current WindowBlinds (non-Object Desktop) customers will be available at a later date.

 

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Great job, guys and well worth the wait! 5* 5*   \o/ :thumbsup:

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One good thing I see with WB8 on 7.

The secondary start menus using DisplayFusion now paint correctly.   k6

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been working on my new laptop/windows 8 for about 2 months and it's been driving me nuts not to have windowblinds.

You guys are awesome!

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting karmat, reply 53
You guys are awesome!

Aren't they just....;)

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 54

Quoting karmat, reply 53You guys are awesome!

Aren't they just....

 

Yes, they is.

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Any screencaps of Glass/Aero on Windows 8?   :D

Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I are so liking this new WB. The new UI is great. I made a copy of the skins folder thinking I'd have to re-install the skins but nope. Wasn't necessary. All my skins are there and intact. I find I'm playing with it more often than usual. Excellent job SD. 5* 5*

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One important thing to consider when using Win7 skins is that the ones with semi-transparent areas that looks well, may not look as good in Win8 because there is no blur in Windows 8 (ATM) so skinners may want to update their skins with less transparency to compensate the lack of blur.   One easy alternative for non-skinners and skinners that want a fast solution, you can use the "Transparency" settings from WindowBlinds 8 (Colour > Transparency) to reduce skins transparency and then you can save this changes as a skin preset under the "Style" section (see screenshot).   Some new skins featuring new WB8 features will come put very soon, one of them is intended to be used as a base-template skin and will have some basic visuals and source files will be released too (.psd).

Skinners might want to consider the majority of people use w7 so better to not update a current skin but make a seperate w8 skin. 

Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

First of thanks for the email ^^ im exited downloading atm... more feedback to it later
Then i want to already thank dani, for the input provided might come handy in the future :grin:  

Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I just télécharder and install WindowBlinds ™ 7.90 beta on my PC (Windows 8) >:( but I can not activate it, I have disabled my windows firewalls and Avast on my PC but despite this activation is not?? can someone give me a help? :D

Reply #62 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting alainvarin, reply 61

I just télécharder and install WindowBlinds ™ 7.90 beta on my PC (Windows 8) but I can not activate it, I have disabled my windows firewalls and Avast on my PC but despite this activation is not?? can someone give me a help?

You should see a message if things go wrong.  What message did you see?

Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 Good Morning Everyone,

I installed WindowBlinds 7.90 beta this morning and so far it is working perfectly.  The new interface works well although I miss being able to change transparency.  :-)  I even tried the beta on some legacy blinds and it worked just fine. 

I uninstalled the earlier version of WB before installing this one to avoid any conflicts but tt was kind of a shock to see my system running naked!  No WB??  I can't imagine it and don't want to.    8C

I know I will probably upgrade to Windows 8 when 8.1 is released but it will be hard as Windows 7 has been rock solid from day one.  I will most definitely be using Start 8 though as I find the new Windows inteface to be harder to navigate than it should be.  Sure seemed like a lot of work to do a simple restart and the people I serve are lost for the most part so I recommend Start 8 to everyone. 

The Stardock team did a great job on WB 7.9.  So far it's working flawlessly (Windows 7, 64 bit).  Thanks for the great work!  It is greatly appreciated. 

I did just notice one strange thing though.  The emoticons on this forum appear in a single line down the page.  :grin: To add the "grin" I had to scroll waaay down the page.  LOL 

Reply #64 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Cameochi, reply 63
although I miss being able to change transparency.

Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks, Zubaz.  Not sure how I missed it earlier when I fiddling around with colors but I think maybe it is because transparency and fonts are in light gray.  Got it now though so thanks again.  The emoticons are now displaying correctly too.  :sun:

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

About a month ago I switched from Windows 7 to Windows 8 because i got a great deal at $15 (or so I thought) I was bummed that Windowblinds didn't work with it yet but accepted it. Yesterday I moved back to 7 looking forward ro re-installing Windowblinds but come to find out that because I let object desktop lapse I cannot re-install Windowblinds or Icon Packager even to the last versions I used without paying for Object Desktop . I was offered a discount. Still not happy.

Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Is WindowBlinds 7.90 / 8 still working with XP ?

 

Reply #69 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting neophil78, reply 68

Is WindowBlinds 7.90 / 8 still working with XP ?

 

No.  WindowBlinds 8 only supports Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Will you be able to skin "Background on folders area" Transparent in Sks 8 ? |-)

Reply #71 from Stardock Forums Top

just recently installed new windowsblinds 8.. all is fine, but , cant create my own Textures , and explorer backgrounds..

in earliar version 7.4 when we used to click create new from image, a window used to open up for tilling and saving the texture, but doesnt seem to be working in it when i choose image  it does nothing

 

Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 3dsardarshailendra, reply 71

just recently installed new windowsblinds 8.. all is fine, but , cant create my own Textures , and explorer backgrounds..

in earliar version 7.4 when we used to click create new from image, a window used to open up for tilling and saving the texture, but doesnt seem to be working in it when i choose image  it does nothing

 

 

I have the exact same problem as well.                -- Ace --

Reply #73 from Stardock Forums Top

May be its beta,, thats why bugs are tend to happen..hope to get the final version soon,, any idea, where the orignal textures are saved, ? couldnt seem to find the path also..

any workaround in mind

 

Reply #74 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting 3dsardarshailendra, reply 71
in earliar version 7.4 when we used to click create new from image, a window used to open up for tilling and saving the texture, but doesnt seem to be working in it when i choose image  it does nothing

I've reproduced this and have alerted the developer.

Reply #75 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting 3dsardarshailendra, reply 73
where the orignal textures are saved, ?

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds\Textures

The images are tga files and the .texture files can be opened in notepad to edit settings.