Talk:WindowBlinds

message: The competitors portion of the article seems to get problematic when discussing WindowBlinds VS. Style XP flame wars. --Konfab user 06:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Most programs are still around, but with the introduction of Windows XP they became fairly irrelevant— few users wished to skin for a less-capable platform.
struck me as a little POV, so I got rid of it. —Saric (Talk) 18:25, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It could have been phrased a little better, but the sentiment is true enough. You simply don't see eFX or Chroma skins around anymore. Nobody wants to use them when they only do the window borders and half the controls. I'm sure things will be similar for Vista, albeit a little slower because XP doesn't suck as much compared to Vista as 98 did compared to XP. GreenReaper 04:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrasing 

message: To be fair to the user community, it should be discussed here that WindowBlinds got a number of critics on known sites such as download.com or pcworld.com, especially about problems of stability or crashes during use and uninstalling, low compatibility with some software, and as open door to spyware when installing tierce source skins. 
(Originbob 23:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What's tierce source - third party? If the program's crashy or incompatible, you should be able to find reviews that say that - there's plenty of them out there. No reviewer worth their salt would pass up the opportunity to ding a few marks for crashes. :-) Be sure to check the date and version of the software reviewed - from my biased perspective, I'd say it's fair to say that early versions of it had stability problems, but they've fallen off markedly since the 4.x series - not coincidentally, since Windows 9x started fading away. GreenReaper 00:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  to be fair 

message: I was told by an IT technician windowblinds was spyware, maybe this should be present on the page Lawnmowers Rock! 01:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't sound much like a reliable source to me. Stardock is a reputable software company that wants people to pay for their programs with money rather than by installing ad-servers and spy programs into your system. We hate that stuff too. Of course, if he got a pirated version, someone else might have decided to make some money off it . . . GreenReaper 05:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tales of an IT technician 

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