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Settings: Advanced User Settings | 12 |
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Locate & click on
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This tab includes options to: change the speed of animations (i.e. fading, pulsating), turn animations on/off, apply textures to the background of Explorer windows, use Vista UI guidelines for menu, use 3rd party plugins, etc.. This allows you to turn off animations if you have an older (slower) computer. |
| Fading The first option allows you to turn fading on (default) or off by checking the box for "I would like controls to fade in and out when I move the mouse on and off them". Controls are items like: buttons, menus, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.. With this turned on, when you move the mouse over say a checkbox, you will see the checkbox change to the colour of the skin. When you move the mouse off the checkbox, the colour disappears. You can control how fast or slow the colour changes by moving the slider 
icon to the left (faster) or right (slower). Click the
button to return to the Normal (default) position. Click
for any changes to take effect. |
| Pulsing This option allows you ti turn pulsing on (default) or off and set the speed of the animation. When you have a window or dialog box that offers a choice of buttons (i.e. CLOSE, CREATE, DELETE), the button that is the default will pulsate (or cycle) through the shades of colour for the current skin. If the "Classic" skin is current (like in these examples), you would see the CLOSE button change in colour from the normal gray of the plain button to light yellow to bright yellow, then back to gray. It's called a default button, because if you hit the <Enter> key instead of clicking it with your mouse, the application would assume you meant to choose the CLOSE button and in effect press that button. With this option turned on, if you don't see any button pulsating, that means none of the buttons are set as a default. Moving the slider
icon to the left (faster) or right (slower) will change the speed of the
pulsating animation. Click the
button to return to the Normal (default) position. Click
for any changes to take effect. |
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Additional Options The last set of checkboxes includes five options, with the second one (Aero window frames) available only in Windows Vista (grayed out in XP). While the fourth option (enhanced remote desktop) is only available in Windows XP (invisible in Vista). |
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I want to be able to apply textures to the back of explorer windows. |
Checked,
(default) allows the skin (if available) to apply (graphic) textures to
the background inside Explorer type windows. Unchecked, textures won't be applied to the back of Explorer windows. |
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I want to use Aero window frames but keep the rest of the skin. |
(Available
only in Windows Vista. XP can see it, but not use it) Checked, window frames use the standard Windows Vista Aero theme instead of the currently applied WindowBlinds skin. Unchecked, (default) window frames are skinned with the currently applied WindowBlinds skin. |
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I would like WindowBlinds to use Vista UI guidelines when skinning menus. |
Checked,
applies Vista UI (User Interface) guidelines to menus (i.e.
transparency). The UI is what you see on the screen for an
application (i.e. frame, menu, buttons). Unchecked, (default) WindowBlinds decides how to apply a skin to menus, based on options you selected in WindowBlinds and what the skin includes. Not all skins may include replacement textures for every part of the UI. |
| Enable enhanced remote desktop support. | (Available
only in Windows XP) Checked, improves compatibility with remote desktop. Unchecked, (default) disables enhanced remote desktop support. |
| Allow skins to use 3rd party plugins. | Checked,
allows skins to use 3rd party plugins. 3rd party plugins may
modify the behavior of WindowBlinds, add new features to buttons, etc..
Care should be taken when enabling this option, as a 3rd party plugin
from an unknown source could damage your computer (i.e. format
hard-drive). From a trusted source, a plugin can offer exciting
possibilities. Unchecked, (default) the use of 3rd party plugins by the skin is disabled. |
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menu option near the top of the window on the
sub-menu.