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


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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Make it Personal: </h2>
*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


==Key Features==
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> New to WindowBlinds 11: </h2>
*NEW! Use fences on modern, high DPI monitors.
*Automatic dark mode
*Create shaded areas to organize your desktop.
*Enhanced high-DPI support for new skins
*NEW! Blur the wallpaper behind fences on Windows 10.
*Marketplace browser for skin library
*NEW! Roll up fences to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops.
*Autoscaling for legacy skins to improve visual fidelity
*Double click the desktop to hide or show icons.
*Designed for Windows 10 and 11
*Define rules to organize your desktop icons.
*Swipe between multiple pages of fences.
*Create a desktop portal from any folder.
*NEW! Navigate the folder structure from within the fence.
*NEW! Windows 10 compatibility.


==Organize==
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Features </h2>
===Roll up Fences===
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.
Eliminate clutter from your desktop - but keep your Fences where it's easy to find them - with our roll up feature. Double-clicking on a Fence's title-bar will cause the rest of the Fence to "roll up" into it, saving you valuable space. To reveal your fence, you can move your mouse over the title-bar or double-click it again to view the title and all of its icons as normal.


===Desktop Pages===
Download additional animated wallpapers from our [https://www.wincustomize.com/ WinCustomize.com] community.
Create multiple pages of fences on your desktop and quickly swipe between them. To change to a different desktop page, just take your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen and click and drag. Then a new page of fences will be displayed. This feature provides greater control over how you can organize favorite programs, documents, websites and more.


===Desktop Quick-hide===
[[File:Wb11 ss 1.png|350px]]
Instantly clean up your desktop. Double-click any blank space on your desktop and your desktop icons will fade out. Double-click again and they will return. You can even pick icons and individual fences to exclude.


==Control==
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Stylize </h2>
===Automatic desktop organization===
===Visual styles===
Define rules for how your icons are arranged on your desktop and Fences will automatically sort new icons into the fences you have chosen based on your rules.
<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>


===Folder portals===
===Alternative skins===
Fences can act as a portal to any folder on your PC. For example, your documents or pictures folders can be mirrored onto your desktop as a fence enabling quick access to their contents without adding clutter to your desktop.
<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>


===Customize your Fences===
===Better Together===
Quickly personalize the labels, background colors and transparency of your fences from the easy to use configuration menu.
<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>
 
[[File:Wb11 rel 05.png|350px]]
 
<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>
 
[[File:Wb11 ss 8.png|350px]]
 
<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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<span style="margin-left:-0.4em;">[[File:Fences video.jpg|319px|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl52OgyvKYk]]</span>
<span style="margin-left:-0.4em;">[[File:Windowblinds11 trailer thumb.jpg|319px|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmo62QTMn_I]]</span>
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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>
*[[Fences Videos|Fences Videos]]  
*[[WindowBlinds Videos|WindowBlinds Videos]]  
*[[Fences Screenshots|Screenshots]]  
*[[WindowBlinds Screenshots|Screenshots]]  


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Fences Resources</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> WindowBlinds Resources</h2>
*[[Fences Tutorials|Fences Tutorials]]
*[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.stardock.com/products/fences/ Fences Website]  
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/WindowBlinds/ WindowBlinds Website]  
*[https://forums.stardock.com/forum/501 Fences Forums]
*[https://forums.stardock.com/forum/167 WindowBlinds Forums]
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/history Fences Changelog]
*[https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/ Stardock Facebook]  
*[https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/ Stardock Facebook]  
*[https://twitter.com/stardock Stardock Twitter]  
*[https://twitter.com/stardock Stardock Twitter]  
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/stardock/ Stardock Software YouTube]
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/stardock/ Stardock Software YouTube]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Stardock/ Reddit]  
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Stardock/ Stardock Reddit]  
 
*[https://www.wincustomize.com/ WinCustomize.com]





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.