Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Oct 2007 19:21 UTC, submitted by draginol
Developer Stardock has released WindowBlinds 6 today. It is a utility that allows users to customize the look and feel of Windows by applying "skins" to change the user interface of the OS. WindowBlinds 6 can make Windows XP look virtually identical to Windows Vista (including blurred glass). Thanks to hardware acceleration, a typical XP system dressed to look like Vista will perform faster than Vista still. WindowBlinds 6 also adds full skinning support to Windows Vista, making it the first and only program to support full Windows Vista customization. CNet takes a quick look at this new release.
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2005-08-07
Maybe because Stardock either bought out many of the freeware \ shareware shell enhancement utilities and converted them ALL to run on top the explorer shell and stopped any development in that area? Maybe because (due to various factors) the shell scene lost most of the non-Stardock related shell news sites and the shell replacements were allowed to wither away?
Sorry, this isn't meant as an attack on you, I recently went through some of my favorite shell replacements to give 'em a try out on XP before wiping only to discover very little remains of the once vibrant community. Litstep hasn't seen any major releases in years, the various other shells seem to have all disappeared or gone payware (with the correspondingly thin theme support that renders)...
[SIGH] And on top of all of that this is STARDOCK we're talking about here.... I'll never forgive them for buying up MacVision and then removing all hopes of it being a shell replacement. Objectbar is nice enough mind you--and if I was to drop any money on a shell enhancemnt it'd be for ObjectBar! --but it is no longer capable of running as a shell, like the old MacVision could way back in the day*....
--bornagainpenguin
*back in the day means on Win9x OSes, as Win2000 was released shortly after MacVision was purchased and the port to WinNT 5.x has never to my knowledge been able to run as shell, if you try you'll bork the system. Don't, I know from experience...
EDIT-- fixed my / (what has OSNews.com got against the backslash anyway??)
Edited 2007-10-03 04:37