Sneak-peek at NEW WindowBlinds skins
Thursday, June 3, 2021 by Tatiora | Discussion: Stardock Blog
WindowBlinds is one of our software products that has been around for quite a long time - longer than I've been at Stardock, at any rate! If you're unfamiliar with it, WindowBlinds allows you to customize the look and feel of your taskbar, window frames, and more. You can make your desktop look unique by choosing from several different styles and skins and adjusting them to suit your personal tastes.
I think one of my absolute favorite features of WindowBlinds 10 is the randomization. If I like a bunch of skins, I can use this option to have my computer cycle through them at random intervals, giving me a fresh look and a bit of a surprise every time I boot up. The per-application skinning is great for variety, too - I can use one skin for my word processing software, and use a different skin for something like Premiere.
But, I digress! Recently, we've been developing some new skins for WindowBlinds and today I get to give you a little sneak peek of what's coming. PLEASE NOTE: These are not 100% final and some aspects of these may change before they are available.
Let's have a look!
Aero Executive
NeXTSTEP
Open Windows
AbraCadabra
Aero Metal
Aquarium
Dragon
Elegance
Aero Midnight
Airframe
Driftwood
Parchment
PlasticXP
Whew! That's a lot of new skins. They'll be available soon, but in the meantime, let me ask you this: which one is your favorite? Share with me!
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Reply #24 Tuesday, June 29, 2021 12:16 PM
Need Mac classic OS (System 9) and Mac OS X skins.
Reply #25 Tuesday, June 29, 2021 6:32 PM
There are many of them that I like a lot, like Aero Executive, Parchment, but "AbracaCadabra" is definitely top on my list.
Reply #26 Tuesday, June 29, 2021 7:10 PM
Great skins.
My favorite skin for all time is Psycho by skoriginals. I am still using this skin (on windows 10). The skin has not been updated since 2006. and it would really be a gift to see it updated for windows 10.
Reply #27 Thursday, July 1, 2021 10:27 PM
It's nice to see you're updating these classic WindowBlinds skins. Any chance you could do the same for old IconPackager sets? It's hard to find decent sets that work properly on new Windows versions.
Reply #28 Friday, July 2, 2021 11:30 AM
It's nice to see you're updating these classic WindowBlinds skins. Any chance you could do the same for old IconPackager sets? It's hard to find decent sets that work properly on new Windows versions.
I feel you, but i don’t think stardock will do that, only the author can do it, but don’t expect much.
but no worries, you could do it yourself if you have photoshop & iconworkshop.
the problem with old ip pack can’t work well with new windows is because icons size mostly only 128x128px, while it needs 256x256px at least. sometimes even old 256px also have problem, but it can be solved.
I’ve rebuilt some old cool ip pack, always works, these are the steps:
1. batch convert 128px ico to png with iconworkshop.
2. batch resize from 128px png to 256px with photoshop.
3. reconvert 256px png to ico with iconworkshop again.
4. create live folders to be included in the ip pack. If you can’t create, just use live folders from other ip pack, recolor if needed.
5. rebuild the new 256px icons to ip via ip package builder.
6. Save with different name.
all steps will be done in 15-20 minutes per pack when you have done it several times 
here some proof to encourage you, good luck 
Reply #29 Thursday, July 8, 2021 9:45 AM
My favorite skin for all time is Psycho by skoriginals. I am still using this skin (on windows 10). The skin has not been updated since 2006. and it would really be a gift to see it updated for windows 10.
Reply #30 Thursday, July 8, 2021 12:24 PM
Does anyone know when theses skins shown at the beginning of this thread will be available?
Reply #32 Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:48 AM
Any update when the skins will be available?
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Reply #21 Monday, June 28, 2021 6:30 PM
The way I got Aero MidNight was to download Theme Manager I didn't have to pay for it.