Nostalgia sells, it sells a lot and this is something that Stardock, the company responsible for WindowBlinds, knows perfectly well. In case you don’t know it, this Stardock software, which you can also find in the Object Desktop suite, is a desktop customization program for Windows 10 and 11 that allows you to change the appearance of its windows, buttons, and other interface elements. Windows user, using skins or creating your own custom designs.
With WindowBlinds, you can change the style and color of the window title bar, the minimize, maximize, and close button, and other user interface elements, but you can also use it to apply visual effects, such as transparency and shadows. , to windows and other items on the desktop. If it sounds familiar to you, it’s because it’s a “family” of Start 11, an application that we’ve already told you about on occasion, and that also integrates with Object Desktop.
As is common in this type of application, both the available settings and the skins are very abundant, so that you can find from the most futuristic proposals (or what we conceive today that the future will be, to be more exact) to others that, deliberately, point to the “retro”, recovering classic design styles that, even with the functionalities of the present, make us take a leap back in time in terms of the visual aspect.
And it is in this group that we can include the most recent release of Stardock because, according to what we can read on his blog, Stardock has released a Windows 95 skin for WindowBlinds 11. With it, as you can see in the images, you will be able to recover a part of the visual spirit of Windows 95, an effect that will be more noticeable if, in addition to WindowBlinds, you use other Stardock tools, such as Start 11 to modify the design of the start menu. .
It is not the first leap into the past of Windows that we see in this version of WindowBlinds 11. Already with its launch, at the beginning of the year, the company published a theme that allowed us to recover a good part of the visual aspect of Windows XP, which, as you will remember, was a great break with regard to the visual aspect of the operating system, ending what was then considered the tyranny of the right angle and the interfaces in which gray was the predominant color.
How about? Do you like these “retro” visual themes? Do you use, or would you like, an application to modify the aesthetic aspect of the interface of your operating system?
