WindowBlinds 11

Do not buy this application, especially at this price. It works very poorly. Many styles are applied inconsistently you can select a theme and end up with half of the windows using it while the other half remain unchanged. Text styling is also broken at times, such as black text appearing on a black background, making it unreadable. There are numerous bugs and visual issues throughout the application. Overall, it feels unfinished and not worth the money.

It was fun for a while, but the novelty quickly wears off once your memory and performance take a hit. I had Windows Explorer crash on me several times while using this... And the fact that Start 11 is needed (not even bundled btw) to get a more authentic experience SUUUCKS. Do not buy this. Please :]

i regret buying this ♥♥♥♥ everyday and i cant even get a refund the fact that i even CONSIDERED getting this rancid wet ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a program in the first place haunts me everyday

I honestly have no idea what all the negative reviews are about. This program is absolutely awesome albeit a little pricey. I've been using this since 2023 and have the Classic theme. It just works. My computer is, pretty old, and barely takes a hit from this; yet all the other reviewers are complaining this program "drains their resources." All I can say is, it works great for me, and it only takes up to 0.7 MB of RAM for me. The only hiccup is sometimes you have to exclude apps that don't react to WindowBlinds very kindly, but once that's done it's over, especially if it's a program you use a lot like Photoshop. I'd say wait for sale, and then give this a go.

So, I know the hours are low but I've used the program before I bought it on Steam. I'm going to give an honest review as to why I would recommend it >to certain users<. I hope this addresses your decision on this software if you should or shouldn't buy it. I am running on Windows 11. *Audible gasps*. I know, I know... The way Microsoft has disabled most help support and abandoned the version for, what, Windows 7? It's crazy. I'm going to switch to Linux since I know Palworld runs on it (which you should totally pick up when you have the chance). I digress... Windows 11 has... very limited personality, to say the least. It's clunky, the settings take way longer than it should to load now, and why can't they just include previous shells for us to customize. I hate that Windows 11 is trying too hard to look like an iMac and try to kill it like I'm sure Bill Gates did to Steve Jobs. Shoot... I got off topic again. Forgive me reader and please have patience. I'm just upset because I have to use several third party programs just to fix Windows 11. WindowBlinds 11 is not a pretty software by any means. When you first install it or boot it up to choose a shell, you will be greeted with the familiar to most Gen X, and baby boomers with a BonziBuddy boot of a hundred pop-up command boxes not too unlike when you'd download mp3's off a certain free website during lunch in a computer lab at school or in college. I'm being oddly specific, you say? Once it's booted up, I HIGHLY recommend you download >only< the recent shells. The reason most people complain and get errors from WB11 is from using older shells with Windows 11. In fact, I can tell you from my own personal experience that this softwares problem is 85% because of Windows 11, no joke. The newest updates and just in general has left a bad taste in my virtual taste-buds, (if I had any), with my experience. So much has happened with my version that I ;lost the activation from it a few months ago all because I was installing Powershell, ExxplorerPatch, ThemeUtilityPatch, and the like. I can say that this version has stayed 'wrapped', if you know the term you are once of the real ones, after several attempts to shut down and restart the program. Conclusion: Do to the latest updates I recommend this software if: ~ You have Windows 11 and just want a shell without installing 4-5 programs hoping they work together ~ Don't mind when booting the theme options up or installing the feeling your bank account/sensitive information is going to get leaked from the 30-something pop up CMD boxes that pop up ~ Are willing to pay $15 to use one program in order to fix a few customization and organization issues within Windows 11 ~ Like older themes and still want to keep some of the new features of Windows 11 I don't recommend if: ~ You plan to switch to Linux ~ Don't have Windows 11 ~ Don't care about shells and themes ~ Think $15 is too much to solve a rather virtually superficial issue ~ Your name is Karen ~ Don't like the Windows taskbar centered (which can be fixed with retrobar, Powershell, and/or ExplorerPatch options but please look up a guide beforehand) ~ Hate older programs that feel a little outdated or have a huge collection where more than 90% of it was not made for newer Windows versions ~ Support Bill Gates I'd rate it a BonziBuddy out of an inactive windows version

Buggy- Not worth the time

I would highly recommend against buying this software, if you want to skin your windows I would recommend something else like BasicThemer, but I am aware that WindowBlinds is really the only decent option you have if you want to skin your windows theme nowadays on Windows 11. The program is constantly nagging you about updates, and then when you do update it it has weird bugs like the one where for some reason you just couldn't open explorer, or another one where it disabled my alt-tab functionality for some reason and I had to completely uninstall it and change a bunch of my windows settings that it changed on its own so that I could alt-tab switch again. I'm one of those goobers nostalgic for the aero glass UI of older Windows NT versions like 7 or Vista, and this program is really the only way to achieve something even remotely similar to that, and I long for the day when that is no longer the case because almost every one of Stardock's programs started out amazing and then got enshittified. Please do not spend your money on this trash.

The idea of this is to allow you relive the glory days of the old computer designs by skinning your windows to look like this. It's a piece of software that's been around for a good while actually. Depending on what you are looking to do, I strongly suggest alternatives. It's a very buggy piece of software that does not like to work like you'd like it to. Does not play nice with every program, lots of skins provided fail to load, and the memory usage is astounding for the simplicity of the work. Also modifying start menus was taken out around sometime in a version, now being sold separately as Start11 which has similar problems but is generally more reliable I suppose. Do not recommend this. Try alternatives first before you consider buying.