New section to allow a custom mouseover image used on the “Programs” link on Vista versus the legacy solid color.Improved control over the Start Menu colours and fonts.Control over the search box text colour and font.Control over the background color of the Start Menu “Programs” list.Support for a different mouseover image on the right hand side of the Start Menu.SkinStudio is included free with the purchase of WindowBlinds or Object Desktop. Moreover, when editing a particular element, the interface is clean and to the point. Rather than the user being overwhelmed with information by seeing all elements of the visual style at once, SkinStudio instead takes the user step by step through the skin.Įach element shows a Windows logo to let the skin author know which features are supported under which operating system. This Stardock application takes on a much more task-oriented design. A new skin can take a matter of minutes or weeks depending on how sophisticated the skin is.Ī fully complete visual style will change the title bars, borders, push buttons, scrollbars, Start bar, Start menu, and virtually every other part of the Windows GUI.

Skinners can change as much or little of the GUI as they choose and SkinStudio will fill in the rest for them.

The new version of SkinStudio is designed to make it much easier for new users to get into skinning. These visual styles are applied by the popular GUI skinning program, WindowBlinds. Stardock SkinStudio is a program that allows users to create visual styles for Windows 10, 8, and 7.

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