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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
*NEW! Use WindowBlinds on modern, high DPI monitors.
*Apply custom skins to your desktop
*Create shaded areas to organize your desktop.
*Add backgrounds, textures and colors to skins
*NEW! Blur the wallpaper behind WindowBlinds on Windows 10.
*Choose your own skin fonts
*NEW! Roll up WindowBlinds to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops.
*Design your own skins with SkinStudio
*Double click the desktop to hide or show icons.
*Define rules to organize your desktop icons.
*Swipe between multiple pages of WindowBlinds.
*Create a desktop portal from any folder.
*NEW! Navigate the folder structure from within the fence.
*NEW! Windows 10 compatibility.


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Organize </h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Features </h2>
===Roll up WindowBlinds===
WindowBlinds enables you to make your desktop interface uniquely yours! Customize the Start menu*, taskbar, window frames and control buttons! WindowBlinds enables users to customize desktop interface themes called skins to personalize the look and feel of their desktop.
Eliminate clutter from your desktop - but keep your WindowBlinds 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 WinCustomize.com community.
Create multiple pages of WindowBlinds 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 WindowBlinds will be displayed. This feature provides greater control over how you can organize favorite programs, documents, websites and more.


===Desktop Quick-hide===
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 WindowBlinds to exclude.


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Control </h2>
<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 WindowBlinds will automatically sort new icons into the WindowBlinds you have chosen based on your rules.
Select from the many skins included with WindowBlinds or choose from thousands of skins available for download at WinCustomize.com


===Folder portals===
===Alternative skins===
WindowBlinds 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.
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.
 
 
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Customize</h2>
===Modify skins===
Personalize any of the default Windows themes or any skins downloaded from WinCustomize.com
 
===Fonts===
Easily change which fonts your skins use.
 
===Transparency===
Make your skins the center of attention or allow them to blend into your backgrounds
 
 
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Apply </h2>
===Easy set-up===
We have simplified the configuration menu to make personalizing your desktop quick and intuitive. Instantly preview your selections and adjustments before you apply them to your desktop.
 
===Presets===
Once you are happy with the changes you have made to your skin, save it by creating a preset. Presets enable you to access previous customizations and apply them to a skin quickly. Love tweaking your creations? Presets can be updated and deleted.
 
===Randomized skins===
WindowBlinds enables you to change skins randomly at timed intervals. Your desktop will never be boring again when you are greeted with a new skin every time you logon.
 
===Per application skinning===
Choose skins for each of your application types. For example, WindowBlinds enables your word processing software to use a different skin than your design programs. Exclude applications from WindowBlinds or choose other compatibility settings to fit your style.
 
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Create </h2>
===Design your own skins===
Each purchase includes SkinStudio, the powerful companion application for WindowBlinds 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. Advanced users can still enjoy designing every aspect of the Windows interface.


===Customize your WindowBlinds===
Quickly personalize the labels, background colors and transparency of your WindowBlinds from the easy to use configuration menu.





Revision as of 18:26, 1 September 2020

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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.

Key Features

  • Apply custom skins to your desktop
  • Add backgrounds, textures and colors to skins
  • Choose your own skin fonts
  • Design your own skins with SkinStudio

Features

WindowBlinds enables you to make your desktop interface uniquely yours! Customize the Start menu*, taskbar, window frames and control buttons! WindowBlinds enables users to customize desktop interface themes called skins to personalize the look and feel of their desktop.

Download additional animated wallpapers from our WinCustomize.com community.


Stylize

Visual styles

Select from the many skins included with WindowBlinds or choose from thousands of skins available for download at WinCustomize.com

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.


Customize

Modify skins

Personalize any of the default Windows themes or any skins downloaded from WinCustomize.com

Fonts

Easily change which fonts your skins use.

Transparency

Make your skins the center of attention or allow them to blend into your backgrounds


Apply

Easy set-up

We have simplified the configuration menu to make personalizing your desktop quick and intuitive. Instantly preview your selections and adjustments before you apply them to your desktop.

Presets

Once you are happy with the changes you have made to your skin, save it by creating a preset. Presets enable you to access previous customizations and apply them to a skin quickly. Love tweaking your creations? Presets can be updated and deleted.

Randomized skins

WindowBlinds enables you to change skins randomly at timed intervals. Your desktop will never be boring again when you are greeted with a new skin every time you logon.

Per application skinning

Choose skins for each of your application types. For example, WindowBlinds enables your word processing software to use a different skin than your design programs. 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 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. Advanced users can still enjoy designing every aspect of the Windows interface.