Border Skin

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]

Edited August 8, 201014 yr by komalo
I removed the strikeouts... (It's commonly used for DEAD links not live ones) ~~ KEL ~~

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

Border Skin

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

* 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

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.

lol BS

nice abbreviation

lol BS

nice abbreviation

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

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

Thanks, Must try this one.

you welcome , glad that you like it

lol BS

nice abbreviation

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

Edited May 24, 200915 yr by komalo

hey nice app man!

hey nice app man!

thanks

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

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:

^^ Thanks Komalo, can't wait for the next update

Lol wtf sorry double post here please ignore this one...

Edited May 25, 200915 yr by AMIRZ

^^ Thanks Komalo, can't wait for the next update

Lol wtf sorry double post here please ignore this one...

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

Edited May 26, 200915 yr by komalo

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

Edited May 28, 200915 yr by komalo

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

Edited June 11, 200915 yr by komalo

thankyou very nice

thankyou very nice

you welcome

what about calling it aero skin?

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

Edited July 22, 200915 yr by komalo

Nice i gonna give it a try in VM

i might make an addon for it

Nice i gonna give it a try in VM

i might make an addon for it

i hope that you will like it

well it seems fine with me

if i got time today i might think of making it an addon

it doesn't need so much hard work any way