I can't remember when I first tried Windowblinds. I really never was into skinning Windows. Don't get me wrong. I always thought it was cool and very imaginative. For years I was a so called, "Power User" so I was always tearing down or getting rid of any unnecessary resources that slowed down my system. Kind of like a gear head for windows. If I could just get a few more ticks on the speedometer or tach I was happy. It was why I went from Windows 3.1 to 3.11 for work groups. Windows 7 was the first time I cared less about squeezing every ounce of speed and went with ( lol voice to txt anesthetics) anesthetics namely aeroglass.
I'm still using it...
The first version I used was WindowBlinds (1.01c), back in 1998
Whoa! Member 115...joined the same month as Jafo.
Most of the things it used to do it doesnt anymore. I skinned it quite heavily with lots of function. Cannot use media player. and other things.
Since XP Days.
I know this is old but...
I started with 0.80
https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/betanews.html
Just check out that configuration panel, huh?
Not sure when, but I was a Stardock customer early back in the OS/2 days (A better Windows than Windows). I still miss that OS. I would have started using WindowBlinds after OS/2 was killed off and I was forced back to windows.
I haven't used WindowBlinds for several years now.
Member Since: 10/24/2001
It was a work of art!
In answer to the thread question, in 1997
I started in 2000, maybe 2001; I do remember that I discovered Windowblinds after I got Icon Packager.
You were probably the first to use it ....
Wall by Misery (deaddreamer), DesktopX by BoXXi, Sysmetrix & Winamp by Jafo.
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Windowblinds 3 since I saw the Aquarium theme by Alexandria on Win98. I did try the now defunct Chroma,it was very promising which probably direct competition with WB,but somehow it shut down the website,stopped development when WInXp came out. What a shame.
Chroma:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtnD0KcNeoI
I have been using since I joined WC under my old alias in 2005. Not what version of windowblinds that was.
My memory is a little blurry, but my guess for me would be anywhere from 2003 to 2009, somewhere around that time frame. I have a clear memory of using it in 2009, 2010, but it also seems like I was using it before then.
I must have collected at least 100 or more various .wba skins and themes over the years.....
I thought I would count what I have installed, it's about 205 actually..........I was making a rough estimate earlier, without counting. 628? Whoa!
2005 was the first time i used WB. It was 2006 when i purchased Object Desktop and have been using WB and other software on any computer i get since then.
Whoa! A Nimbin sighting! Good to see you. How goes it?
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