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Reply to Windowblinds 8 and Mycolors skins in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote who="DaveRI" reply="11" id="3388894"] marcdw, I am curious - Which version of Windows are you running?[/quote] Windows 7 Pro, x64. Y'know, I tried Redneck's tips but it turned out to be no different than when I had manually copied the themes originally without the bin files. Mind you, the MyColors themes work fine with WB8 (other than the pixelated thumbnails in the skin list) it's just that ThemeManager doesn't work right with WB8. As a te

Reply to Windowblinds 8 and Mycolors skins in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Heh, today I discovered that all of the MyColors themes were actually sitting inside WB's program directory instead of the normal location. So far the manual cleanup went okay. A few gotchas. In WB8 previews of the installed skins show up fine in the main windows but the thumbnails on the left (list of skins) are no good. Looks like good old television when trying to reach a faraway station. ThemeManager, at the moment, partially works. If you apply a suite it changes most

Reply to Windowblinds 8 and Mycolors skins in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I went looking for the MyColors files and couldn't find them anywhere at first. Checked the wblinds themes dir, appdata areas, common files, mycolors program directory (which has an empty Themes folder), but just couldn't find anything. Then I found everything sitting in ThemeManager's data directory. Given that ThemeManager was installed after MyColors I don't know if the former snatched the files from MyColor's location or if that's a default location. The .m

Reply to Windowblinds 8 and Mycolors skins in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Wish I had read that yesterday. I decided to download and install a bunch of stuff before I lost internet (unemployed, so...) and the combo of Win7/MyColors/WB just didn't work out. ThemeManager also has a strange issue in that some of the thumbnails from WB8 skins are missing buttons (min/max/close). Not sure if that's normal. Anyhind, now I gotta do some zipping, fixing, uninstalling and reinstalling (for good measure). Marc

Reply to Windowblinds & Firefox 18 Problems in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Not being a fan of Mozilla's constant version bumping I had stuck with certain items for a long time. Been using Thunderbird 3.1.20 but finally decided to go to 17.x on Windows XP. Version 17 was all over the place. There was no titlebar and attempts at resizing tbird caused it to grow and shrink. I clicked on the maximize button and it started running all over the screen from top to bottom and right to left (dual monitors so it had a lot of room to run). Strangest thing ever.

Reply to Must reboot in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

There was another thread about this issue either here in WinCustomize or the Impulsedriven forums. I've been having the same issue only with this latest WB 6.4. Sometimes it'll load at boot sometimes not. It has been installed, uninstalled, reinstalled. I thought all was well after an install via Impulse last night but the next day it just wouldn't load. The pointer to the WB help page doesn't address the issue but I wonder is it possible to add wbload to one of the st

Reply to Object Navigator File Manager for Windows in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Snowman"]One of the reason I've used TC for so long (10+ years) is the dual/split pane interface + I dislike Explorers general look/feel/use.[/quote] I think there's a web site about that. Dual-pane FMs are called Orthodox File Managers. For me that is the only way to go. I don't use TC but either FAR Manager (console) or FreeCommander. Going all the way back to Norton Commander they pretty much always have the same basic file management keys for vi

Reply to How do I download my updated copy of Skin Studio Pro without installing bloatware Impulse product? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Jafo, Actually I have half-a-dozen OD apps but what bothers me is the eye candy interface that can't be toned down. One thing I always do on any machine is turn off animation but lately more and more programs have buttons and menus that slide and animate and whatnot. I'd like Impulse to have options to turn that sort of thing off. There was one setting that helped a tad but not enough. And the mandatory IE7 thing bites (impulsedriven.net). I cou

Reply to How do I download my updated copy of Skin Studio Pro without installing bloatware Impulse product? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

You like it and that's fine but the program is bloated. I dread having to have to start the thing. I realized this past month or so that Stardock Central is no longer usable (it no longer shows or updates anything and even tells me my subscription has expired nevermind that it's good 'til 2010). SDC was my preferred way of updating. Impulse, on my machine is fat, a bit sluggish, and requires IE7 for some things. Had IE7 but got rid of it <

Reply to Object Edit Feature Suggestions in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

I just noticed something today after all this time. When selecting a line termination the status bar doesn't match up with the menu selection. I choose Unix and the status bar says Mac. I choose Mac and the status reads Unix. Now I'm not exactly sure which termination I'm getting unless I open it up in another program (OE seems to specify DOS in the status bar on re-opening so...). (speaking of newlines, how does one get one when typing in this WinCustomize browser. Enter and ctrl-Enter don't w

Console display annoyance in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I have an annoying problem with console windows in that they show up with the last row being partly obscured (like half a row). The scrollbar area on the right also doesn't seem to paint properly with a small area between the scrollbar and console area picking up whatever's underneath (program or desktop). I've done all kinds of things regarding per application settings such as using UIS1 version of a skin, disable s

Menus with short/truncated entries in WindowBlinds JoeUser Forums

I'm trying to make NeXT-style menus for a theme (a lot harder than I thought) and am having problems with menu items being short, jumbled, or truncated. I've included a screen shot (first post so I don't know if image will be here). When I first started this I was working from no docs regarding how to make menus so it was trial and error all the way. If it wasn't for dealing with separators I'd have the