I just installed WindowsBlinds 5. During the installation process, I was shown the very standard "welcome" setup screen:

Notice something odd about one of the buttons? Hello?! Why is the Cancel button disabled? I've seen some terrible installers, but that is one of the worst things you can do is to not provide an "out" for the end-user. Especially when the standard install text suggests canceling the install and quitting any running applications.

I clicked on the Close button and then clicked next and I think that it canceled successfully ... although I'm not exactly sure if that was the pattern that actually worked to stop the installation.

In any case, I quickly created a system restore point before continuing the installation. The remainder of the installation went without incident, and after rebooting I launched the configuration tool.

After paging though the installed skins I tried several. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Interesting, but yuck. Not too promising as you'd think Stardock would include some awesome skins with the product to show it off.

I went to their skin site, WinCustomize, to search for some more skins. I downloaded a handful that looked promising. Yuck. Yuck. Weird and yuck.

Shortly later, I uninstalled it. If some nice, throughly tested skins were released, I'd probably try it again. Too many of the skins were busy and noisy, or "mechanical" and dark. A few original ones, but nothing outstanding. I couldn't imagine actually trying to get work done with most of them installed. A couple of the more interesting ones required the registered version. No thanks.

For some brief amusement, check this out:

Do you think it's pobbible that they didn't even proofread the text on the dialogs?