eXperience 11 : https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/9262/ Mac Classic : Seems to come with Windowblinds 11, but I'm not sure exactly which build number. Watercolor XP : https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/3178/ Sakura : I could've
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Some of the old Stardock Design skins from previous versions of Windowblinds are cool, but they don't look right on Windows 11. Most notably, the Aura theme has weird gaps. I wish Stardock would go back and make fixed versions of their old skins! There are also some inconsistencies between light and dark in the notification area. Adamant without Start11: <img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/7/99/799373/ef735b43-f689-4017-b24e-735939d3f0e0.png" alt="" wi
With a number of Windowblinds themes in Windows 11, Explorer has a weird gap at the top of the navigation and content areas, or between the menu bar / toolbar and the content areas. I can see through it to the window underneath. Weirdly, I can't seem to capture the peek-through in a screenshot, perhaps due to some leak-prevention code in Windows. Note that I'm using a scaling factor of 200% on my main monitor, because it's 4K at 27 inches. For that siz
Personally, I think this theme looks ridiculous. I'd much rather have a MacOS 9 theme than this. Lately, I've been using the Sabertooth theme extracted from Windowblinds 7. It gets the Apple feel without having the actual Apple logo as the start menu icon.
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The safest thing to do would be for somebody who knows skinning in and out to just post an article explaining how to do it in SkinStudio. For example what options/sliders/etc are most relevant? I haven't tried it in ages, but even the last time I did, I didn't know how to do anything with it.
Some of my favorite skins are from way back in the XP era. For example, Eminence , DogmaX4 , and DogmaX2a . But when you try to apply some of them on any modern OS, the start menu looks all misaligned. The same has been true for every Windowblinds version after XP, I just
Cool. Hopefully you've set it to be vsynced, at whatever rate the monitor is actually set to (90, 100, 120, 144hz).
I'd say it's probably just the window movement, yes. Interestingly, moving an Explorer window shows the lack of smoothness, but a Chrome window seems unaffected (probably due to not being skinned very much). I can even move the Chrome window with the testufo.com test running, and the test stays smooth. EDIT: Another observation, while testing the movement, I discovered that Windowblinds doesn't respect the disabling of Aero Shake via the registry
One thing I immediately noticed upon enabling Windowblinds 10: it drastically reduces the smoothness of the desktop rendering. I have a 144Hz LCD (kept at 120Hz most of the time), and moving windows around is super smooth. If I enable Windowblinds 10, the movement of windows becomes quite rough, as if the framerate is low and perhaps actually uneven. At best, it feels only as smooth as the default theme at 60Hz. I value the smoothness much more than I value the cus
One thing I immediately noticed upon enabling Windowblinds 10: it drastically reduces the smoothness of the desktop rendering. I have a 144Hz LCD (kept at 120Hz most of the time), and moving windows around is super smooth. If I enable Windowblinds 10, the movement of windows becomes quite stuttery. I value the smoothness much more than I value the customization, so for the moment, I've switched back to the Windows default theme.
Here's a screenshot with the Diamond theme on Windows 8, with Start8 installed: http://picpaste.com/diamond-NM8Tz1Qg.png Here's a screenshot with the stock Windows 8 theme (also with Start8): http://picpaste.com/stock-krbsLAdB.png Here's a screenshot with the Corporate theme: http://
Hmm, you guys should try Windowblinds skins with with 150% font scaling (and "XP-style" disabled) applied. That is, use the OS native font scaling, not anything in Windowblinds. Windowblinds declares itself DPI-aware, yet fails to perform any scaling. The result is that things are tiny and/or cut off in weird places. It might be good to have some of your own developers use the Surface Pro, so you're certain to see these scaling issues yourselves.
Heh, that lens flare makes me want to sneeze for some reason. Oh, here's the reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
It sounds like you aren't running at the monitor's native resolution (1280x1024). 1280x1024 is a different aspect ratio than most monitors (an odd 5:4 rather than 4:3), so stretching the image will make things not square. The best way to fix this is to set your desktop to the native resolution.
Oh, and the marquee screensaver eats CPU like crazy
Here are my pleas: Bring back watercolor too, please! Also, include Royale by default -- at least it looks better than Luna. Most of all, have the first-run wizard (OOBE) ask people what style they want to use (along with substyles), and include previews of a sample desktop! [EDIT: Oh, and hire Brewman! DogmaX (including all versions) rocks]
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