#Windowblinds review skin
Depending on the skin applied, it can also add functionality. WindowBlinds doesn't just change the appearance of your screen.
(In fact, as it installs, WindowBlinds scouts your hard drive and automatically excludes apps with known incompatibilities, including Adobe Illustrator, MSN Explorer, and earlier editions of Quicken.) This per-app skin feature is nifty and necessary because WindowBlinds 3.1A is still incompatible with some apps. For instance, we told WindowBlinds to leave Internet Explorer's toolbar as is when we didn't like the way a new skin changed it. You can also exclude applications from using a systemwide skin or assign a different skin to one application but another to all the rest.
Here, you can turn specific parts of the skin on or off, such as toolbars, buttons, Windows Explorer backgrounds, and scroll bars. To tweak a skin once you've downloaded it, just click the WindowBlinds button in the Windows Display Properties dialog. (Under Windows 98, Me, and 2000, WindowBlinds adds a new Skins tab to the Display Properties dialog.) Best of all, you can change skins without rebooting the PC, though it typically takes as long as 30 seconds for a skin to take effect, during which you just have to wait. To change a skin, just select a new look from the Windows And Buttons list and click OK. WindowBlinds integrates most tightly with Windows XP, where it slips itself into the Appearances tab of XP's Display Properties dialog. You won't have any trouble installing WindowBlinds or using it to swap basic skins. Version 3.1A isn't the most stable app around, but it offers new XP integration and a relatively inexpensive and fun way to spruce up your desktop. To create your own themes, you'll need an app such as Stardock's SkinStudio. WindowBlinds offers a way to display available skins, but it's not an authoring system.
WindowBlinds 3.1A slaps a brand-new face, or skin, onto your Windows OS, turning it into a virtual clone of other OSs-from the Macintosh to BeOS-by modifying the appearance of application windows, dialog boxes, toolbars, menus, and the Start menu.
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