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Hi,
has someone come over the same issue than me:
Windows 10 Technical Preview 10122 ist not accepted as
a supported operating system.
Greetings eff
This is intentional. Windows 10 is not a supported operating system for any version of WindowBlinds at this time.
Run in compatibility mode Win 8 and it will install. Finding a theme that is 100% on Windows 10 Tech is another story.
It installed fine for me back last October. Maybe Stardock disabled it since then? I have Start8 installed also.
I use the Stardock Win8 skin and add some customization. But the main reason I installed Windowblinds is to get MY choice of fonts for Windows and to have the font bolded. This, of course, works beautifully on my host Windows 8 Pro machine but on Win 10 Preview on a Hypr-V virtual machine MOST areas are bolded and use Verdana Bold font but what I really need to be bolded and use Verdana is Windows Explorer. I can't read the tiny font that isn't even Verdana that Win 10 uses for Windows Explorer. DPI cannot be changed on Win 10 as a workaround so I really need a working Windowblinds on Win 10. Some menus bold beautifully and use Verdana but not Windows Explorer. On Windows 8, Windowblinds makes Windows Explorer use Verdana Bold font so I am really missing a fully working Windowblinds on Win 10 Preview.
I don't understand why there isn't a beta for Windowblinds for Win 10. I will not be able to upgrade unless I have a properly working Windowblinds on Win 10. I'm not at all sure if I will want to upgrade but Windowblinds working properly is the biggest consideration.
Mele20 ....programs which interact CLOSELY with an OS GUI are hugely dependent on the stable functionality of an OS - something you do not get in an on-going series of OS Betas. WHEN Win 10 is finished aka 'RTM' then programs such as Windowblinds can be revised to suit, as only then can results be predicted...;)
I'm just wondering about the version..will there be a WindowBlinds 10, or will you just continue uppdating v8 för win10?
Don't quote me, but I would expect Stardock's software naming/numbering to follow Microsoft's OS numbering closely, particularly since 10 is to be the 'next big thing' for MS...;)
I am running Windowblinds 8 latest version on Win 10 IP 10130 but it does odd things to the taskbar. Looking forward to WB10 as default MS version is anathema to me (flat, bright, garish, dull).
Start 8 works fine but Start 10 tells me I'm not running Windows 10 LOL 
The installer or after installation?
using windowsblinds and it works fine for me.doesnt seem to skin the newest windows 10 addons but for the preveiw i see no glitches.specially after i disabled the retarded search bar windows 10 adds.seems modernmix might be useless/doesnt exactly work tho but meh.once the final release im sure things get booming again.from what i think i read somewhere there was plans already on a whole new object desktop suite package once 10 is released so ya gw gl happy custimizing and moving fwd
Well, it's 29 June and the Windows 10 release is now only 30 days away. When does Stardock expect to start testing on the RTM version of Windows 10 and tell us roughly when WindoBlinds10 (or whatever it will be called) might show up in beta form so that we can all check it out and provide feedback to you.
Why not reconsider this decision and let us at least have a go at installing WindowBlinds8 on the technical preview just to see what happens (we will understand that it probably will have issues).
I simply cannot tolerate the flat UI of Windows 8, and in particular with four monitors and multiple windows all over the place cannot get by without WindowBlinds8. I use the "Diamond" style (by Stardock) to provide a look and feel similar to Windows 7 so that all these windows have a 3D look and stand out clearly from each other.
When default flat "Modern UI" windows overlap I find what it's difficult to discern whenever a small windows appears on top of a larger window somewhere on one of the four monitors, and the Diamond style eliminate this major usability issue for me. I earnestly hope that Stardock is focusing intensely on release WindowBlinds10 at the earliest opportunity, and am worried that if I can't delay the installation of Windows 10 before WindowBlinds10 is released than I'll once again find myself in the living hell of flat windows all over the place.
To avoid the 'living hell' simply hold off on the installation of Windows 10 [as I certainly will be doing]. You have a 12 month window of 'free upgrade' to 10 so there is actually no 'rush'.
Windowblinds is best released for bug-hunting AFTER the bugs are out of the OS itself and it has gone gold [RTM]....;)
Yeah, I know, but I'd still like to try WindowBlinds8 under my copy of Windows 10 Pro, Insider Preview version.
Stardock was quite slow in coming out with WndowBlinds8 some months after Windows 8 was released, and I'd like at least the chance to test WindowBlinds8 "as is" and see what happens. (It won't cause any harm because I'm running the preview inside VirtualBox.) Perhaps early feedback from this would enable Stardock to come out with WindowBlinds10 a little earlier, which would be good.
Don't quote me, but I would expect Stardock's software naming/numbering to follow Microsoft's OS numbering closely, particularly since 10 is to be the 'next big thing' for MS...
Somehow I feel like that will kill some of the charm of "Decor8".
correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't décor 8 mainly for the windows 8 start screen the system that no longer exists in 10? ya that would prolly be abandon ware then as there are no second hand menus at all
I think people need to realise this simple fact.windows 10 is completely nothing like 8 and involving moreso to prove this.
also modernmix may or may not come to light as now all modernuis are resizeable.
lot of coding adding lots of features to consider,like the simple fact that 10 will be a crossbreed and work with nearly any phone tablet pc laptop,prolly even a microwave-next update after rtm 
just saying.dont expect to have the same apps.some will stay sure but some wont.windowblinds,start 10,and a couple others I can see but ya quite a few would be recycled and replaced by something more.
I think that it's quite silly to say that "people need to realise this simple fact.windows 10 is completely nothing like 8." Indeed, Microsoft has been very careful to ensure that there are many, many functions in Windows 10 that are similar if not identical to Windows 8.
I have extensively tested many of them for compatibility/differences, and to finish off my test suite I wanted to at least attempt installation of WindowBlinds in the Windows 10 Insider Preview.
Incidentally, what will happen with WindowBlinds8 installed in your Windows 8.1 system and you upgrade to Windows 10 (without any update to WindowBlinds -- starting 29 July, and before Stardock delivers WindoBllinds10 or whatever it will be called)? Being able to install WIndoBlinds8 in the Insider Preview might have provided a preliminary answer to this key question.
Again, once more..to repeat myself and reiterate... Windowblinds is a GUI modifier. It actually NEEDS a finalized GUI in order for it to function.
Something like Photoshop...or your favourite AV program doesn't need a GUI at all. [other than to keep non-cmd line users happy].
There's little benefit in releasing a 'version' of Windowblinds into the wild when the GUI it is intended to function FOR/WITH is definitely still changing....and will continue to do so until the day 'someone' says 'RTM-NOW'.
Just look at ALL the changes simple mortals can see in the SHELL of the various Win10 releases and extrapolate that to what you cannot see [simply].
ONLY WHEN MS sends 10 RTM can anyone be confident of adaptations being compatible [at least until the next service pack [or similar]].
As for WB8 on an upgraded-to-Win10-system...that depends more on how 'precious' Microsoft is with what they deem 'compatible', not Stardock.
WB8 will either work [with potential bugs] on 10 or the 10 install will deny you access to use it.... but that again/still/also depends on what the 10 RTM really is.
Now...
If I were truly concerned that ANY PROGRAM FROM ANYWHERE was going to be problematic with an OS upgrade.... ANY OS UPGRADE.... I'd hold off doing it.
I'd wait until Microsoft was ready....my program/upgrade was ready...and I was ready.
And 10 is 'NOT like 8'. If that were the case it would be called something quaint like Windows 8.2. ...;)
Well, RTM is verging on being released, see Microsoft to finalize Windows 10 this week (The Verge - 06 July 2015) so I sincerely hope/expect that the WindowBlinds team at Stardock will get hold of the RTM final build at the very earliest opportunity and commence beavering away furiously to get a test version ready in coming weeks.
The trick is to watch what the bloke in reply #1 in this thread has to say re the topic.
SD always has their finger on the trigger re new OS builds/releases/developments/directions....it's their bread and butter. [I'm just the Vegemite....] ...;)
Yes indeed. ... Neil, please enlighten us on Stardock's planned timeline on this matter.
Yes indeed. ... Neil, please enlighten us on Stardock's planned timeline on this matter.
Everyone wants this information mainly because by nature we can not wait. Experience though shows us that as soon as a timeline is given something will always happen to screw with it. Learning to be patient is not easy, in fact it's the hardest thing to learn in life.
there once was a time when Stardock had a different attitude on that:
https://forums.wincustomize.com/80750/page/1/
but then that was 10 years ago when there was more interest in Windowblinds and that could have been the reason there might have been more focus on it's development.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Windowblinds
there once was a time when Stardock had a different attitude on that:
I don't recall the advent of Longhorn being so fraught with indecision and back-flip in fundamental GUI basics as is currently the case with 8, 8.1 and 10 .
The world of the OS was simpler then....no diversions from sanity like touch-screen tablets and 'smart' phones ...;)
I can't even get Windows 10 to install on Windows 10. 
Build upgrade, I mean. 
https://forums.wincustomize.com/80750/page/1/
but then that was 10 years ago when there was more interest in Windowblinds and that could have been the reason there might have been more focus on it's development.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Windowblinds
I remember this..
but your right though.
windowblinds isnt as popular as it was with windows xp/windows 98.
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