bbLean 1.17

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (18 votes)

(May 20, 2009)

Windows 2000/9x/XP / Freeware / 1,787 downloads

bbLean is an advanced version of Blackbox for Windows, which is a popular WindowManager on Linux systems. It fully supports the styles from the Linux version. It has a menu system with user frienly popup delay, support for shellfolders, rightclick context menus, scrolling with button or mousewheel, drag and drop and keyboard navigation.

Reviews of bbLean

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    kaso_Da_Zmok

    Reviewing 1.16 (Aug 28, 2008)

    I use this 4 years now from the day i discovered it in 2004, i am used to it, i have my favorite plugins always with me, fav styles, very lightweight onto the system. Very sexi. recommended for every one.

  2. 2 out of 5 stars
    ppentz

    Reviewing 1.16 (Nov 7, 2007)

    I really wanted to give this a good review, but I can't. I had bbLean loaded on my PC for about 2 weeks, initially liking it a lot. I loved the degree of customization, the available skins, etc. But a problem arose that forced me to remove bbLean from my PC; whenever any program would freeze (give me "not responding") bbLean would also freeze, making it impossible to switch away from the offending program. If I tried using Task Manager, the frozen program would be listed as "not responding", naturally, but so would bbLean. To often I had to force bbLean to quit to be able to continue using the PC.

    If anyone knows of a workaround to this, plz let me know, I'd happily re-load it!

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    GravityFX3

    Reviewing 1.16 (Nov 30, 2005)

    This is simply the BEST shell I've used. If I could give it a 10 I would =) If you like linux/unix you will like this for you windows box.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    Lisa Hayes

    Reviewing 1.16 (Sep 21, 2005)

    really a good alternative toolbar for windows.
    Some may not like this [i know people that don't]
    but this is something that i was looking for
    all this time. And besides, there's a nice
    database of plugins that you can use as well.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    ozkan

    Reviewing 1.16 (Sep 15, 2005)

    It's easy, slim, nice shell. Very fast nice menus, hotkeys, plugins. Give it a try. I love it.

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