Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice

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umm.... 50MB d/l limit? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i got this message trying to d/l something: "Thank you for trying out WinCustomize.com! We hope you have enjoyed the skins, themes, and wallpapers available here. As an active user of WinCustomize.com who has downloaded over 50 megabytes of content from our site, we ask that you help support WinCustomize through the purchase of either a WinCustomize Subscription or registering a Stardock product. WinCustomize subscribers not only get unlimited download capabilities,

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Reply to DesktopX Pro released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

"VI, I kind of suspect you haven't used DesktopX recentlyif you think it's heavy on resources and is convoluted. DesktopX 2 is totally different from DesktopX 1." actually, i used DX2. maybe it's just my system (doubtful) but it does run slow. and i still do not like the object properties dialog and all that. another thing i dislike is i haven't seen any good themes. i mean there's a LOT of themes, but not many are USEFUL. having a good looking theme is one thing, having a useful GUI is

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Reply to DesktopX Pro released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I think it's a good idea. by that i mean for stardock, i don't think it's too practical. personally I stay away form DesktopX because of the devolopment/object editing environment. I just don't like it. It's too convulted (i think that's the word I want...). i find another destop replacement program much easier to create with. i won't name names tho... plus desktop x is too slow to load and heavy on resources. I've been thinking of whipping up some performance meters and whatnot in .NET

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Reply to search by color scheme in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

oh and as for the backlog of themes, you should never not advance something forward because it leaves old things behind. but if it was really wanted you could have an option for users to classify old themes they see, or for authors to set those themselves.

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Reply to search by color scheme in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

well if youur theme is too many colors to be catergorized you simply don't fill in this option or put it down as "misc" or something. but most themes have 2 main colors. in fact i could classify all my WB and VS themes like that. but either way it's more practical than a "schools" catergory.... i mean who actually uses those ridiculous catergories?...

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Reply to search by color scheme in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

well, i've done that before i think and usually you just come up with crap themes that people make like 10 editions of of different colors. and most of the best artists use more original names for their themes that don't include the color. in fact i don't think any theme i have includes the color in the name.

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search by color scheme in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i have a suggestion. like, right now i'm using blue wallpaper so i want a blue WB theme to match it. i've got one, but i wanna see what else there is. or let's say i have a WB theme that's black and wanna find a matching CursorXP theme. i think when you submit a theme you should be able to pick the main color scheme from a list, so people could search for what they're looking for. because the "places", "people", "schools", etc catergories are pretty worthless.

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Reply to An alternative way of doing Boot Screens in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

i use boot screens, just replacement kernels (applied myself with boot.ini, not some crappy program), but i have no worries of getting a virus or anything. first, i don't think there's been one case of a virus being put in a bootscreen on one of those sites, and second any file you download could be a virus... someone could just as easily make a virus screensaver or anything else you may have used. but anyways, this sounds cool. i was just thinking 5 minutes ago when i turned on my

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Reply to Boot Screens and Legal Issues... in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

BootXP sucks. if the screen has the progress bar in another place thna usual, it won't show up correctly. you can move it to where it should be, but it doesn't get saved or something. what i do is just download them as kernels and edit the boot.ini to point to the new file. i just alternate filenames boot1.exe and boot2.exe so you can change it without going into safe mode or anything. i'm not worried about viruses or anything cause for one it'd add to the filesize and you could see the differen

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Reply to Boot Screens and other conundrums in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

well, as t says lots of sites have em, i get em form themexp.com, so i don't care if they're added here too. but with so many sites doing it, big popular sites, i don't think ms will try to stop it all. it's not worth the effort and it only makes people like xp more. but anywasy, if we all bought xp (or at least have it...) then we all have the files anyway so it's not like we're stealing files we don't already have.

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Reply to WindowBlinds 4.1 Released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

i'd use windowblinds sometimes if it didn't freakin replace my skin selection in the display properties... cause i just use a dll patch to use xp visual styles (no need for that styleXP crap), but when i found one good WB theme to use and installed WB it replaced the whole list of visual styles with WB themes. how gay... so i just uninstalled it...

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Reply to why no Talisman themes? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Lightteck isn't actually leeching cause they aren't linking to individual files, just the page for that theme (if my memory is right). paxx: be sure to d/l the 2.5beta instead of the 2.31 version cause if you look at the themes section, most of the new ones require 2.5.

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