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Communications to Earth's first interstellar colony in Proxima Centauri have gone dark. In response, Earth has dispatched the Carpathia to investigate. Upon arrival, you find a colony under siege. Your mission: save the colony from these brutal alien invaders.
WindowBlinds helps you organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called WindowBlinds. Its many customization features are what make WindowBlinds the world's most popular Windows desktop enhancement.


Siege of Centauri puts you in command of the defense of Earth's first interstellar colony. Set in the Ashes of the Singularity universe, thousands of alien machines are attacking and only you, with your arsenal of deployable defense structures and strategic orbital abilities, can stop them.
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Make it Personal: </h2>
Customize the Carpathia in order to best handle the challenges of each individual mission, battle across the surface of an alien world through a series of story-driven campaigns or see how long you can survive in a doomed region where the enemy waves are truly endless.
*Apply custom skins to your Windows 10 and 11 desktop
*Add backgrounds, textures, and colors to skins
*Choose your own skin fonts
*Design your own skins with SkinStudio
*Browse thousands of custom skins within the app


The enemy comes in all shapes and sizes, challenging you to counter them with the right defense in the right place. Siege of Centauri combines the best elements of classic tower defense games with the strategic depth Stardock has delivered in past titles, including Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and Ashes of the Singularity.
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> New to WindowBlinds 11: </h2>
*Automatic dark mode
*Enhanced high-DPI support for new skins
*Marketplace browser for skin library
*Autoscaling for legacy skins to improve visual fidelity
*Designed for Windows 10 and 11


==== Defend the Colony ====
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Features </h2>
<p style="margin-top:0;">Proxima Centauri is under attack from hordes of alien invaders! Play through a vast campaign full of challenging missions. Deploy defenses, use powerful orbital abilities, and call units at the right time and place in order to win.</p>
Make your Windows 10 and 11 desktops unique with WindowBlinds 11! Customize the Start menu (when used with [[Start11]]), taskbar, window frames, and control buttons on up to five devices. WindowBlinds lets you customize desktop interface themes called skins to personalize the look and feel of your desktop.
==== Customize your Defenses ====
<p style="margin-top:0;">Choose from dozens of tower upgrades and determine what you need in order to survive. Upgrade your particle cannon to slow its target, your Artillery Post to leave fire in areas it has attacks, or your Corrosion Mortars so that victims infect the allies around them.</p>
==== Fight Against Dozens of Enemies ====
<p style="margin-top:0;">The alien invaders have many unique attacks and defenses. Beware the Falling Star that disables defenses when it explodes, or the Heart of the Phoenix that forms a chrysalis when destroyed that can be reborn as a new Heart.</p>
==== Create your own Missions ====
<p style="margin-top:0;">Use the in-game workshop, then upload and share them with other players. Download new missions created by other users, too. Get started with the [[ModdersGuide|Modder's Guide]].</p>
==== Survive the Onslaught ====
<p style="margin-top:0;">See how long you can survive against relentless enemy waves in Endless Mode! Try to outlast other players and compare your scores on the leaderboards.</p>


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Download additional animated wallpapers from our [https://www.wincustomize.com/ WinCustomize.com] community.
 
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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Stylize </h2>
===Visual styles===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Select a skin from the many included with WindowBlinds, or browse thousands of skins from [https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds WinCustomize.com] right from within the app.</p>
 
===Alternative skins===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Select skins have multiple sub-styles that can be applied to suit your personal tastes. You can also save your style combinations as presets for quick access later.</p>
 
===Better Together===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">When paired with Start11, you can theme your entire desktop to look like an alternative operating system such as Windows XP.</p>
 
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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Customize</h2>
===Add color===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Personalize any skin by choosing from a huge array of color options.</p>
 
===Fonts===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Add some character to your skins with unique fonts.</p>
 
===Transparency===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Make your skins the center of attention, or allow them to blend into your backgrounds by increasing transparency.</p>
 
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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Apply </h2>
===Easy set-up===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Quickly and intuitively navigate the configuration menu to easily personalize your desktop. Instantly preview your selections and adjustments before you apply them.</p>
 
===Presets===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Save changes to your skins by creating a preset. Presets enable you to access previous customizations and apply them quickly. Love tweaking your creations? Presets can be updated and deleted.</p>
 
===Per application skinning===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Choose skins for each of your application types. Make your word processing software stand out from your design programs by giving each one a unique look with a different skin or color scheme. Exclude applications from WindowBlinds or choose other compatibility settings to fit your style.</p>
 
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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Create </h2>
===Design your own skins===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Each purchase includes SkinStudio, the powerful companion application for WindowBlinds 11 that enables you to create your own skins. Edit controls, Start menu*, taskbars, Explorer windows, fonts, colors backgrounds and more with SkinStudio.</p>
 
===Easy to use===
<p style="margin-top: 0;">Customize only the parts of the Windows interface you want to change and SkinStudio will do the rest! This makes it easy for inexperienced users to create a great skin quickly, while advanced users can still enjoy designing every aspect of the Windows interface.</p>
 
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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Media </h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Media </h2>
*[[Trailers|Trailers]]  
*[[WindowBlinds Videos|WindowBlinds Videos]]  
*[[Screenshots|Screenshots]]  
*[[WindowBlinds Screenshots|Screenshots]]
*[[Artwork|Artwork]]  
 
*[[ModdersGuide|Modder's Guide]]  
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> WindowBlinds Resources</h2>
*[https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds WindowBlinds Skin Library]
*[[History of WindowBlinds|History of WindowBlinds]]
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/history WindowBlinds Changelog]
*[[WindowBlinds System Requirements|WindowBlinds System Requirements]]
 
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> WindowBlinds Tutorials</h2>
*[[3 Tips for Using WindowBlinds|3 Tips for Using WindowBlinds]]
*[[Changing your Desktop Theme|Changing your Desktop Theme]]
*[[WindowBlinds 10: Colors, Textures, and Fonts|Colors, Textures, and Fonts]]
 
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Official Pages </h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Official Pages </h2>
*[https://www.siegeofcentauri.com/ SiegeofCentauri.com]  
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/WindowBlinds/ WindowBlinds Website]
*[https://www.facebook.com/SiegeofCentauri/ Siege of Centauri Facebook]  
*[https://forums.stardock.com/forum/167 WindowBlinds Forums]
*[https://twitter.com/SiegeCentauri Siege of Centauri Twitter]  
*[https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/ Stardock Facebook]  
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Stardock/ Reddit]  
*[https://twitter.com/stardock Stardock Twitter]
*[https://forums.stardock.net/forum/1182 Siege of Centauri Forums]
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/stardock/ Stardock Software YouTube]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Stardock/ Stardock Reddit]  
*[https://www.wincustomize.com/ WinCustomize.com]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 18:34, 18 May 2023

Release Trailer

Important Pages

About WindowBlinds

WindowBlinds helps you organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called WindowBlinds. Its many customization features are what make WindowBlinds the world's most popular Windows desktop enhancement.

Make it Personal:

  • Apply custom skins to your Windows 10 and 11 desktop
  • Add backgrounds, textures, and colors to skins
  • Choose your own skin fonts
  • Design your own skins with SkinStudio
  • Browse thousands of custom skins within the app

New to WindowBlinds 11:

  • Automatic dark mode
  • Enhanced high-DPI support for new skins
  • Marketplace browser for skin library
  • Autoscaling for legacy skins to improve visual fidelity
  • Designed for Windows 10 and 11

Features

Make your Windows 10 and 11 desktops unique with WindowBlinds 11! Customize the Start menu (when used with Start11), taskbar, window frames, and control buttons on up to five devices. WindowBlinds lets you customize desktop interface themes called skins to personalize the look and feel of your desktop.

Download additional animated wallpapers from our WinCustomize.com community.

Stylize

Visual styles

Select a skin from the many included with WindowBlinds, or browse thousands of skins from WinCustomize.com right from within the app.

Alternative skins

Select skins have multiple sub-styles that can be applied to suit your personal tastes. You can also save your style combinations as presets for quick access later.

Better Together

When paired with Start11, you can theme your entire desktop to look like an alternative operating system such as Windows XP.

Customize

Add color

Personalize any skin by choosing from a huge array of color options.

Fonts

Add some character to your skins with unique fonts.

Transparency

Make your skins the center of attention, or allow them to blend into your backgrounds by increasing transparency.

Apply

Easy set-up

Quickly and intuitively navigate the configuration menu to easily personalize your desktop. Instantly preview your selections and adjustments before you apply them.

Presets

Save changes to your skins by creating a preset. Presets enable you to access previous customizations and apply them quickly. Love tweaking your creations? Presets can be updated and deleted.

Per application skinning

Choose skins for each of your application types. Make your word processing software stand out from your design programs by giving each one a unique look with a different skin or color scheme. Exclude applications from WindowBlinds or choose other compatibility settings to fit your style.

Create

Design your own skins

Each purchase includes SkinStudio, the powerful companion application for WindowBlinds 11 that enables you to create your own skins. Edit controls, Start menu*, taskbars, Explorer windows, fonts, colors backgrounds and more with SkinStudio.

Easy to use

Customize only the parts of the Windows interface you want to change and SkinStudio will do the rest! This makes it easy for inexperienced users to create a great skin quickly, while advanced users can still enjoy designing every aspect of the Windows interface.