After seeing recent news on MyColors, I thought I'd take a look and see which new themes have been released, to find that Omega now has a Vista-compatible release. So I checked the downloads for my purchased Premium Suites (I bought a few), to find that it is still the XP version! NOT HAPPY!!!

What about those of us who have purchased the Premium Suites? I remember reading on the forums a while back that Vista updates were being worked on for most if not all the Premium Suites. Don't we get t...

 

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A look at how to completely transform your Windows experience.

  

After a full year of effort, Stardock has officially launched MyColors to the general public.

Ever since the last few updates I've been having a problem after applying a skin. Everything except for my cursor freezes. Objectdock doesn't work...taskar isn't getting skinned...can't even open the startmenu to reboot.

Any ideas whats going on here?

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 52 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Dell 2007WFP (Dig...

Milksama and I are putting in some efforts right now to do a high end, animated, Media Player skin. One that would work in either OS. However we were looking at is what theme should we start with? We boiled it down to three. We would really like anyone to toss in a vote or ideas for the player.

Idea 1: High end technology.
    Think common type skin. Lots of shine, glass, holograms, and glowy bits. Animations are quick and crazy with lots of flash to it.

Idea 2: Low post-ap...

I want to know how I add moons to my weather object. Any body know how to do this?? I guess I should be more clear. You know when you look at the weather object and you see todays weather and there is a sun or thunder cloud or fog image, well, I want to add moon images for when it is night time as well. Thanks.

note the wall behind the dock and the wall behind the browser.... I just don't understand it.

I use the change wallpaper every hour thing in WB and recently noticed that there is an issue with how the  walls display behind the dock.

Any suggestions?

Friday is finally here, and it took way too long to get here.  I'm starting to see a slight slowdown in skins, so I hope that is just something temporary. 

Now for this weeks picks!



 

Maja Pearl CXP for CursorFX
by Xiandi

Xiandi gives us another great looking cursor theme this week.  Great job.


 

Rogue Proton Meters in DesktopX Widgets
by philmar83

Here is a set of meters that are made to match the very popular Rogue Proton WindowBlinds skin....

I have been getting quite a few messages lately from people wanting to know how to change their Vista cursors.  Many of them are still using CursorXP, and I guess maybe the CursorFX news just hasn't reached everyone yet.  No big deal though, lets go through the steps on getting some custom cursors on your Windows desktop.

What is CursorFX?CursorFX is the successor to the highly popular CursorXP application.  I think it's safe to say CursorXP was the top choice when needing to a...

Object Desktop 2008 was just released, so I created a screencast which walks you through what is included with both Object Desktop 2008, and Object Desktop 2008 Ultimate.  Each application gets a brief overview, along with a look at Impulse.  This is great for anyone who might not be too familiar with the popular applications that are included.

Link: Object Desktop 2008 Guided Tour

    I don't know where to even begin exploring this process. We have a category in our gallery called Sidebar Styler. I use this app frequently. I like side bar styler better than desktop sidebar as DS does not like my system...causes multiple crashes. There are not many Bars available in the gallery so I thought I might give creating one a go. I cannot find any instruction on to skin for this app. Does anyone have any idea how to go about making bars for use with Sidebar Styler??...

Hi,

I am currently looking for a freeware tool to enchance the tray of windows (the area where all mini icons are).

Is there really anyone here who isn't tired of the sounds in either XP or Vista?  The sounds in Windows Vista seem much better than in XP, but even with that, hearing them everyday just gets so old.

In comes SoundPackager.  I always relate SoundPackager to IconPackager simply because both use "packages" to change their respective items.  One of the best things about SoundPackager is that not only does it change a bunch of system sounds at once, it also allows you fine tune the ...

Title is self explanotary. I downloaded several DX widgets like to do lists or email notifiers, but everytime i wanna enter text I hear a "ping" and no text. What is wrong? Please

I'm not sure when this started but I just noticed it in the last couple of days.

When I open my  My Pictures, My Music, and My Videos folders the picture in the bottom right hand corner of the window is always the one for My Pictures.  I applied about a dozen skins that have different pictures for each folder in the wba file and they all had the same result.

What makes it even stranger is that it occurs only on my C: drive. My backup drive shows the correct pictures for each fo...