![]() ![]() Other times it was about reminding power users just how gimped the Windows XP “Luna” UI made Windows. Sometiems it was just a matter of making Windows XP look a bit nicer than Windows XP defaulted to. (The Microsoft XBox team here – one wonders what the Windows team felt about this at the time) Third-parties began licensing WindowBlinds for marketing purposes (Nvidia here) ![]() The quality of the skins had to really go up to compete with the bland but free uxtheme skins. WindowBlinds thus had to provide significant value-add to justify $20. The competition had stiffened as Microsoft had released uxtheme.dll that, once hacked, allowed people to create GUI skins freely. In fact, making Windows look like other, less ugly, OSes was a big deal.ĭesigned with Windows XP in mind, 3.0 was the first version that could skin every part of the Windows GUI. MacOS’s “Aqua” look for its newly launched MacOS X helped make WindowBlinds incredibly popular for Windows users who suddenly recognized how ugly Windows NT/2000 were. Remember AOL? Their client was a huge pain the skin correctly. WindowBlinds skins supported adding buttons and other objects into the frames (such as this stock ticker). We took this out because users were unhappy about their “privacy” (anonymous data being sent). WindowBlinds used to send data back to us on what skins people had. Yea, this was the config UI we had.cough.Īdds per-window skinning, semi-transparent explorer windows, skin colorizing ![]() Let’s take a look at its evolution in pictures. It was the first program to enable users to customize the look and feel of the Windows GUI. WindowBlinds 1.0 was released in November 1998! Since then, it’s gotten over 100 MILLION downloads! Over on CNET’s version 8 has received over 18 million downloads. ![]()
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