Nostalgia sells, sells a lot, and that’s something Stardock, the company responsible for WindowBlinds, knows all too well. If you’re not familiar, this Stardock software, which you can also find in the Object Desktop suite, is a desktop customizer for Windows 10 and 11 that lets you change the appearance of windows, buttons, and other interface. elements.Windows user, using skins or creating your own custom designs.

You can use WindowBlinds to change the style and color of window headers, minimize, maximize, and close buttons, and other user interface elements, but you can also use them to apply visual effects such as transparency and shadows. windows and other desktop items. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s in the “family” of Start 11, an application we’ve told you about on occasion that also integrates with Object Desktop.

As is common with this type of application, both the available settings and skins are very rich, so you can find from the most futuristic designs (or more precisely what we imagine the future to be today) to others that deliberately refer to “retro “, reviving classic design styles that, with the functionality of today, force us to visually go back in time.

And it is in this group that we can include Stardock’s latest release, because according to what we can read on his blog, Stardock released a Windows 95 skin for WindowBlinds 11. With it, as you can see in the images, you will be able to restore part of the visual spirit of Windows 95, an effect that will be more noticeable if, in addition to WindowBlinds, you use other Stardock tools such as Start 11 to modify the appearance of the Start menu.

It’s not the first leap into the past of Windows that we see in this version of WindowBlinds 11. Already with the launch, at the beginning of the year, the company released a theme that allowed us to restore a large part of the visual side of Windows XP, which, as you will remember, was a big a break with regard to the visual side of the operating system and ended what was then considered the tyranny of right angles and gray-dominated interfaces.

What about? Do you like these “retro” visual themes? Do you use, or would you like to use, an application to modify the aesthetic aspect of your operating system’s interface?