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Border Skin

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Border Skin is a free portable software to skins the windows borders by skins composed of png images with the support of several aero features like Blur, Reflection and Breadcrumbs .

Author

Mohamed Kamal

Version

0.2.9

Change Log

Here: [link]

More Info, Download

Here: [Link]

Older Versions

Here: [link]

Border Skin Resources

For More Border Skin Resources: [link]

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I removed the strikeouts... (It's commonly used for DEAD links not live ones) ~~ KEL ~~
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Border Skin

BorderSkin.jpg

Border Skin is a new free program that skins your

border and adds effects like blur and reflection on XP

Author

Mohamed Kamal

Requirements

Needs at Least .Net Framework 2.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Works Better with .Net Framework 3.5 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Version 0.2

Screen Shots

Border_Skin___Skin_your_window_by_komalo.png

* Credit Goes to filipefmle for the "Vista Pack Colors" which Contains 17 Aero Colors Preview

Download :

deviantArt Link : http://komalo.deviantart.com/art/Border-Sk...indow-119640021

Change Log :

Fixed :

* Bottom border wasn't extended enough to fit the window on Windows Classic

* three buttons was shown on any window

* title is not updated correctly

* borders image wasn't changed on activating and deactivating window

* fixed some unhandled exceptions

* fixed skin filter with some windows (like taskbar , startmenu , google chrome )

* more than one skinwindow is created for the same an application ( Mozilla Firefox )

* application wasn't activated after the skinwindow window is activated

* fixed buttons right click show window menu

Improvements :

* Moving/Resizing Improved

* Skin structure of BorderSkin Updated (still not the final structure yet)

* True Transparency Skins is now supported (through right click on taskbar icon and "Add TTSkin")

* Skinwindow is disabled when the application window is disable

* Exclusion List is add ( exclude by process )

* now blur value is changed by dialogue not by textbox ( throught right click > Blur > Change Blur Value )

Known Bugs :

True Transparency Converter still has some bugs with converting some themes

Notes :

The best performance for blur can be achieved by disable "FullBlur"

Developing Border Skin will stop until 7 June ( When my final exams finishes , wish me luck )

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Version 0.1 :

Screen Shots

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Mirror 1 : http://www.zshare.net/download/5872199886ae2700/

Mirror 2 : http://rapidshare.com/files/221957232/Bord...in_0.1.rar.html

Mirror 3 : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WBI8ZNMZ

Mirror 4 : http://www.badongo.com/file/14483681

Mirror 5 : http://depositfiles.com/files/g3n92odf2

Mirror 6 : http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lzbyjitjoef

Thanks, Must try this one.

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lol BS

nice abbreviation :P

:D Hahaha agreed (Bull Sh**) yeah Komalo you should have changed it b4 (only the logo) LOL sorry anyway just a suggestion mate as some people ever said that before hehe

But the program is still cool and working fine :thumbsup_anim: it's way better than TT for me

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:D Welcome to Wincert Komalo finally it's very nice to meet you here Bro :thumbsup_anim: keep up the excellent work - Amirz

thanks amirz , you are the only one that always welcomes me any where :)

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lol BS

nice abbreviation :P

:D Hahaha agreed (Bull Sh**) yeah Komalo you should have changed it b4 (only the logo) LOL sorry anyway just a suggestion mate as some people ever said that before hehe

But the program is still cool and working fine :thumbsup_anim: it's way better than TT for me

nothing to sorry about , you all totally right :icon_cool:

i know , actually it was named WinSkin but i found out that another program has the same name

http://winskin.com/ so the logo was "Ws" not "Bs" , i was going to change it in 0.2 but since i will change the name also , i decided to delay it to 0.3

btw , nice suggestion

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Great program, just one thing, any chance of putting an option to hide the icon in the taskbar?

Regards

Worf

Yeah i can't also find any available option to hide the systray icon :confused02: or at least how to edit the current registry for that

i didn't put an option for this yet because it is still unstable sometimes

but i will put it in the next version since you want it , nice suggestion btw :thumbsup_anim:

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^^ Thanks Komalo, can't wait for the next update :D
Lol wtf sorry double post here please ignore this one...

np :) , and this happens with me all the time (double posting :sweatingbullets: )

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Exclusion List upgraded in 0.3, you can now exclude programs by process name

and class name, and specify a skin for a certain window

screenshots :

Example : AeroBlue is Applied only on Explorer http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6075/exclutionwindow.png

Aero Explorer : AeroExplorer is Applied only on Explorer http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/150/aeroexplorer.png

Edit : i just took the permission from fediaFedia to use his skin Windows Aero Beta for WB by fediaFedia

Here's a New Screen Shot

aeroexplorer2l.png

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  • 2 weeks later...

hi all

Developing is now active again (i finally took my vacation yesterday, working on it from since)

okay folks , i need your help

since i am going to change the name of the program I have been thinking about some names

but i can't get some thing catchy , current my option is WindowSkin (i wish that i could use WinSkin

instead but there's winskin.com) ,ExplorerSkin is suggested before but it is taken

SO PLEASE ANYONE THAT HAVE ANY NAME PLEASE POST IT :) BECAUSE I AM REALLY OUT OF IDEAS :crying_anim02:

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Since i don't want to spend a week trying to find a name for the application rather than release it, here's what has been suggested :

Metallica Skin (MS) , Fraero (free aero) , Quiro (quick aero) , Aevo , GlassXP , Metallica Skin (MS) , Glass XP

Aero XP , XP-skin , Apptastic , PeanutSkin , TPWD (The Perfect Window Manger) , TUWD (The Ultimate Window Manger) , Diamond-XP , Glowy , GLOW (Glass Light On Windows) , WinBlur , WinDecorations , WinDecor , WinDecorSkin , SkinDecorations , SkinDecor , SkinFrame , WindowSkin , WinGBK (Windows Glass Blur) , WinBlurSkin , BlurSkin , WinBlurXP , BlurXP , Kskinner(Komalo skinner) , SkinWinnerK (komalo winner skin)

i came up with WinComposite and WinCrystal

And to tell you the truth, i am a little on "WinCrystal" side , so i am thinking about it as the name, if any one saw one of the other names will be more suitable

please suggest it now

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what about calling it aero skin?

Thanks but i don't want to have it about aero

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Version 0.2.1 Released

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