Best windowblinds software for free download

Design your own Windows GUI with SkinStudio. SkinStudio lets you create your own Start bar, Start button, title bar buttons, push buttons, scrollbars, toolbar icons, progress bars, and much more. Your new interface can then be applied by popular programs such as WindowBlinds to change the look and feel of the entire Windows GUI.

SkinStudio 4.5 enables you import MSStyles into WindowBlinds seamlessly. It also allows users to create visual styles with semi-transparent Start menu elements (per pixel alpha blending).

• Supports Universal Skin Format (USF)
• Create a skin from a pre-made image
• Create WindowBlinds Skins
• Import .msstyles into USF

SkinStudio is free. The free version supports Universal Skin Format (USF), creating a skin from a pre-made image, creating a WindowBlinds skin and importing .msstyles into USF.

Version 5.01 is a maintenance release over 5.0 which was released last November. It includes performance enhancements, further support for other languages, and better skin previewing.

An enhanced version is also available for $19.95, which adds additional features such as using pre-made GUI widgets, importing parts from other skins and advanced skin colorizing. The Pro version is $29.95 and allows you to create Media Player Skins. The Pro version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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RightClick enables users to extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu. When a user right-clicks on their Windows desktop, RightClick's custom made menus comes up. Users can add short-cuts, tasks, system commands, and much more to the menu. It's also fully skinnable and can be set to automatically inherit the user's current WindowBlinds visual style. For users who normally have their desktop covered up, a hot key can be set up so that will activate it at any time.

RightClick supports displaying running tasks, the Start menu, the system tray and virtually anything else one might imagine having on there allowing the user to replace the Start bar if they so chose (and in fact RightClick supports hiding the Start bar).

A trial version is available for download. Users can purchase it stand-alone for $14.95 or as part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes RightClick, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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ObjectBar allows users to create their own custom Start bars, finders, pop-up menus, program launchers, wharfs, docks, etc. It is completely customizable. Users can download hundreds of themes and bars for it from the ObjectBar gallery on WinCustomize.com

Every OS has its own way of accessing programs, tasks, and information, and ObjectBar takes the best from those OSes and gives you the power to build your own. This handy program has everything you need to build your own unique Windows desktop environment, and also comes with a set of very high quality, easy-to-use interfaces that can take your Windows desktop to the next level.

Highlights:
-Easy to configure.
-Manage content that you regularly use and make it easily accessible.
-Tear off menus allow for greater desktop customization.
-Fully skinnable and a host of visual effects.
-Ability to simulate virtually any operating system's desktop environment or create a completely new one.
-Automatically use the current WindowBlinds skin.
-Highly compatible with DesktopX widgets.
-Group running programs together any way you wish.
-Supports pop-up menus and the ability to create new pop-up menus.
-Handy e-mail plug-in shows last several headers of received mail.
-Ability to pick which items are displayed in the System Tray.
-Configurable personalized Smart Menus to display only the program items you regularly use.

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Keyboard Launchpad (KLP) is a program that allows you to quickly and easily assign hot keys to launch programs, visit URLs, paste saved clipboards, control individual programs, perform system commands, and more.

What makes KLP special is that it works system wide. No matter what program you're in, no matter what you're doing, you can always access the hotkeys of KLP. It also has an open plugin format so that if there is a specialized program you wish to add your own hot key support to, you can do so.

KLP can turn your current clipboard into a permanent hotkey. Technical support departments use KLP to store “canned replies” for customers, marketing and legal departments use KLP to store logos, letter heads, signatures, and more. And Internet users can use KLP to store passwords, signatures, and frequent responses.

Keyboard LaunchPad is available as a free download. An enhanced version is also available for $9.95, which allows an unlimited number of shortcuts. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes Keyboard LaunchPad, IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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More than an icon theme changer, more than an icon editor, IconX is a program that turbo-charges your Windows desktop icons. It can put shadows, make them bigger, have them zoom up when you put your mouse over them, even change color based on what you are doing.

-Set your icons to be any size and react to different mouse states. Use the built in pre-loads for easy use or go in and set it up for yourself.

-Change font, size and color label of the icon for easier viewing or better looking desktop.

-Set up special effects for your icons.

-Control which icons show up on your desktop.

-Easily replace any icon on your desktop with a new icon or PNG image.

IconX is available as a free download. For those who need to configure their desktops down to the last detail an enhanced version is also available for $9.95, which adds additional features such as enabling animation and saving changes between start-ups. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconX, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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IconDeveloper is a program that makes it a snap to create your own icons for Windows. Most icon editors come with their own graphics editor. IconDeveloper doesn't. Instead, it assumes that most people who want to create icons are either going to create them using an existing graphics package like Photoshop, MS Paint, CorelDraw, or they take existing images (.BMP, .PNG, .JPG, etc.) and turn those into icons.

So instead of putting effort into a bitmap editor, IconDeveloper focuses itself on making it really, really easy to turn existing images into Windows icons and allowing for common modification of those icons (resizing, color changing, etc.). The result is a program that makes icons extremely fast, extremely well and extremely easily.

The free version allows for the creation of standard Windows icons, Windows XP icons, and shell integration.

An enhanced version is also available for $19.95, which adds additional features such as creating and editing any sized icons at any resolution up to 256x256, changing the hue/gamma/color of the icons, batch convert and batch colorize entire folders of icons. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock's premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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DesktopX is a revolutionary program that lets you completely change the Windows desktop into anything you want it to be. It's the program studios use to create futuristic looking computer screens in movies and TV.

Enhance your desktop by giving Windows the ability to have real objects on the desktop. Objects include clocks, stock tickers, calendars, weather monitors, living creatures, and thousands of other objects or “widgets” that are available on-line for free download. DesktopX makes it easy for both casual users and power users to build their own desktops to meet their needs.

Do you have a stock you want to keep track of? Do you like to keep track of your CPU performance? Do you often need to convert US money into foreign dollars and back again? Widgets are little mini programs that sit on your desktop and keep track of these things for you, and there are hundreds available online. They can be a simple as a pretty analog clock, a to-do list to help you keep track of tasks, or a weather widget that will give you the 5 day forecast. They can be more complicated, such as a currency converter or stock ticker. You decide what is necessary, and you customize your desktop.

End users can tweak their desktop with a point and click interface. Developers can use Javascript or VBScript to make their objects fully scriptable. DesktopX can even make your existing desktop look better by allowing you to have icons sized independently from the rest of the system as well as add shows and mouse events effects to them that can make your desktop incredibly cool.

Find more information here: http://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/infoguide.asp.

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WindowBlinds is the world's most popular desktop enhancement utility. With a user base estimated at around 10 million, WindowBlinds is used by both consumers and corporations who want to change the way the Windows user interface looks and feels. It is the only program of its kind used and certified by Microsoft.

WindowBlinds 4.5 includes the new ability to change the color of visual styles through hue shifting along with modifying the brightness and saturation of the visual style. It also includes the ability to have alpha blended Start menus and standard menus which enable users to have semi-transparent pieces to those parts of Windows XP and eliminates the "jagged" look around the edges of the interface. WindowBlinds 4.51 enables users to have semitransparent pieces in the Start menu, adds support for 64-bit version of Windows XP and enhanced support for instant messenger clients.

Consumers can purchase the enhanced version of WindowBlinds for $19.95 which adds the ability to skin more elements of the Windows user interface and can skin even non-theme aware applications.

See http://www.stardock.com/products/directskin/ for information on how you can make your own application skinnable.

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ObjectDock is a program that acts as both a task manager and a program launcher. It lets you organize your short-cuts and running tasks onto an extremely customizable dock that sits on your desktop. Users can customize the look of each item on the dock and set various animation options for when the mouse is over an item on the dock. It is very easy to configure. Tired of hundreds of icons scattered all over your desktop? Finding it difficult to navigate through the many items listed in your Start Bar? Just want a new tool that looks good and reacts in a pleasing way when you interact with it? ObjectDock is a necessary program for everyone – and it’s free! As in, no spyware, no adware and it never expires.

Features of ObjectDock (free version) include:

-Put short-cuts on your dock
-Display running tasks on your dock
-Put docklets on your dock
-Icons zoom on mouse-over
-Change the appearance of the icons of running tasks and short-cuts
-Position dock on any edge of the screen
-Optionally represent running programs by snapshot of their window
-Optionally hide Windows taskbar
-Skinnable

ObjectDock 1.5 adds news features including Windows Vista compatibility, a new image searching feature, .DockZip support, a new algorithm for zoom docks, drag and drop support for items on docks, tabbed docks rotate automatically when docking them with a screen edge if necessary, and a host of mouse-over activation features.

Extra features in ObjectDock Plus ($19.95) include: Tabbed Docks, Multiple Docks, System Tray support, Custom icons for system tray icons, Fly-out menus, Smart edge docking, Taskbar grouping, Multi-monitor support, and tons of customization features.

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