We hope you had a fun holiday weekend, and July continues to be a hot one! We love seeing your summer inspired desktop screenshots, so be sure to share with us what skins and themes you are using!

Post your desktops to the monthly thread here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/505719/

(This is a news thread and will be locked. Screenshot taken by DrJBHL)

Independence Day is coming next week for us in the United States! As with many holidays it can also be a fun time to put some related content on your desktop. Fireworks are obviously a popular one, and we have quite a few of those in the animated wallpaper gallery. There's also a variety of other types of themes, and we'll highlight a few below!

Let us know what you're doing for July 4th this year!

American Flags

American Flag

Colorful Fireworks

USA Flag

American as Apple Pie

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Galactic Civilizations IV was recently announced and is the newest installment of its award-winning space 4X strategy sandbox game series takes the best of what its predecessors had to offer and adds to it with many new and exciting features. As the all-powerful leader of a spacefaring civilization, the player must seek out new star systems and discover the exciting potential of the subspace realm. 

Learn more about the game here: https://www.galciv4.com/

To help celebrate the announcement, we've released several animated wallpapers for DeskScapes featuring video assets created for the game.

Galactic Civilizations IV Animated Logo

This is the animated logo for Galactic Civilizations IV that you can have right on your desktop.

Galactic Civilizations IV Background

This is one of the animated backgrounds for the game and makes for a really cool animated desktop!

Galactic Civilizations IV Announcement Trailer

We took the official announcement trailer and edited it a bit to make this animated wallpaper work on the desktop.

Here's the trailer:

The WindowBlinds gallery has been updated with quite a few new and updated skins from some of our talented community skinners lately! I wanted to feature some of them in the news this week in case you might have missed them.

Download these and see many more in the WindowBlinds gallery here.

7 for 10

Windows Zero

Simple Gray

50s Style

Hello all,

Just a heads up that we released DeskScapes 11 Beta 3 today for Object Desktop subscribers and individual purchasers of DeskScapes 11.  You can see the changelog here:

https://forums.stardock.com/505115

Any feedback you may have can be posted there.

As always, thank you for your time and patronage. 

As we close in on the first days of summer, it's always fun to pick and feature some of our favorite wallpapers that you can use on your desktop. Of course, there's no reason you can't download these and use them on your various mobile devices as well!

Here are five of our favorite summer wallpapers!

Seaside Relaxation

Canopy on the Beach

Rolling Wave

Tropical Beach from Above

Summer Countryside

June is here and summer will be officially here soon! I think it's going to be a hot one, and I'm going to keep some beach and tropical themes on my desktop! With a new month brings a new desktop screenshot thread, so post your desktop screenshot in the forum and lets us know what skins you are using!

Post your desktops to the monthly thread here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/505165/

(This is a news thread and will be locked. Screenshot taken by Chasbo)

We are less than a month away from the official start of summer, and we've been talking about it over the past few weeks here. Last week, we looked at some animated wallpapers for you beach lovers, and today we'll look at some WindowBlinds skins for that same summer theme.

If you have a favorite skin that you use for summer, let us know in the comments below and be sure to post them in our monthly desktop screenshot thread here.

Beach

Summer Green

Summer Slice

Tropicali

We recently announced the brand new DeskScapes 11 (the beta is available exclusively through Object Desktop). Users can animate their desktop backgrounds, add customization to personal photos and tons more. While we're in the beta phase, we encourage users to submit bugs and suggested changes. Head over to this thread.

Beta 2 Changelog:

• Fixes issue with the 4K flag on some dreams showing incorrectly
• Alters screensavers to terminate process vs exit on mouse move etc
• Fixes issue with screensaver applied message up and being able to make app look hung
• Tweak to wallpaper change detection
• Tweak for performance loading up playlists
• Small tweak to the font size on search checkboxes
• May fix issue with remote desktop - should no longer pause
• New option for playlists where it will change either after X seconds if non-video or when the video ends (if a video)
  User-submitted request: https://forums.stardock.com/504876/
• Now has options to update playlists if new files added (must read folder)
• Installer tweaks