WindowBlinds v1 [9/20/99] ------------------------- Thank you for trying out WindowBlinds! If this is the first time you have used WindowBlinds, welcome to a new way to customize your OS. We are pleased you've taken the time to download WindowBlinds and we look forward to your comments and suggestions. Be sure to read the included documentation (in the help file) for details on using WindowBlinds, tips and tricks, where to download additional skins, etc. As of this date, there are over 320 skins available online! Information on new releases, FAQ's, and additional downloadable personalities/skins can be found on the Stardock Systems web site at http://www.stardock.com or http://www.windowblinds.net. The Download Cool Stuff! link in your WindowBlinds folder takes you to a download link for a variety of skins. Visit the WindowBlinds newsgroup on our newsserver at news://news.stardock.com/stardock.windowblinds as well. If you are interested in making your own skins, be sure to check out the UIS2 File Format document in the WindowBlinds Documentation folder under your Start menu. A tutorial is also online on the website. Thanks for your interest in WindowBlinds! Privacy ------- WindowBlinds has Internet integration which provides you with some really neat features such as the ability to download the most popular skin, get a skin of the week and receive interactive updates. In order to do this, WindowBlinds sends some data about your system such as: + What skin you are running + What OS you are running + Your WindowBlinds UserID. It is not our intention to violate any sense of privacy someone has. If these pieces of information are deemed confidential by you for some reason, you can disable the Internet features by right clicking on the icon in the system tray and selecting the Internet Integration window. A full privacy statement can be viewed online at http://www.windowblinds.net/privacy.html. Obligatory Bits --------------- SimpleRemix personality designed by Luche (http://www.luche.com) and is included with his permission. Other non-Stardock skins included with the permissions of their respective authors. WindowBlinds incorporates decompression code by the Info-ZIP group. There are no extra charges or costs due to the use of this code, and the original compression sources are freely available from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ on the Internet. We will also, upon request, mail you the full sources on a 3.5" MSDOS-formatted diskette for the cost of mailing. The full source of the InfoZip compressor/decompressor can also be obtained from ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/. All companies legal trademarks mentioned anywhere within this distribution are respected. WindowBlinds is a trademark of Stardock.net, Inc. Copyright 1997-1999 Neil Banfield, 1998-1999 Stardock Systems, Inc., 1999 Stardock.net, Inc.