Comments on: "Windowshades" functionality on Windows XP? Possible?

Question: "Windowshades" functionality on Windows XP? Possible?

enrevanche — Sat, 13 May 2006 07:50:47 -0800

"Windowshades" functionality on Windows XP? Possible?

I'd like to make some interface tweaks to Windows XP. Specifically, the one killer feature I'd really like to have is the Mac OS "windowshades" feature; you double-click on the titlebar to "roll up" or "roll down" the window, but other interface customization ability would be good too.

My Googling skills have failed me. Surely there is some product out there offering this functionality?

By: TonyRobots

TonyRobots — Sat, 13 May 2006 07:58:53 -0800

"Is there a piece of software that /only/ rolls up your windows?"

WinRoll

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Sat, 13 May 2006 08:03:37 -0800

My favorite software developer/publisher (ever since GalCiv) is Stardock. They make Object Desktop, a piece of software which happens to have a theme that completely emulates a Mac desktop.

My personal favorite (but not for work) is the desktop that looks and feels like a Star Trek control panel.

By: junesix

junesix — Sat, 13 May 2006 08:07:27 -0800

TonyRobots got WinRoll. The other one thanotopsis alluded to is WindowBlinds, which is a component of Object Desktop. WindowBlinds is a whole WinXP skinning package that has the "roll-up to titlebar" ability among its many features but it's paid software while Winroll is basic and free.

By: enrevanche

enrevanche — Sat, 13 May 2006 08:10:31 -0800

Wow, that's gotta be some kind of new land speed record.

WinRoll. Thanks, y'all. Object Desktop/Windowblinds looks very powerful and cool, but WinRoll solves the immediate problem.

By: shagoth

shagoth — Sat, 13 May 2006 09:28:30 -0800

WindowBlinds can make your XP machine looks more like a pre-OSX Mac than a modern Mac does.

By: kindall

kindall — Sat, 13 May 2006 09:45:52 -0800

Another one is FreeShade.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Sat, 13 May 2006 15:19:22 -0800

Freeshade seconded—I'm running it currently.

By: hatsix

hatsix — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:27:39 -0800

FWIW, I (heart) WindowBlinds