WOW - a free skin; what a concept! Well free for 11 months anyhow (you should note the expiration with the key given.)

This makes up for the lack of attention WC subscribers got when those two new libraries (objectbar2 and right-click) were made available to the general public - but NOT available to WC subscribers thru SDC. It took, what 2 weeks, for these to be available....?

PS: It must have been a shock to all these fanboys to read Brads acknowledgment of some of his company's failures!

Just a little notice : The Start-Button is only visible on mouseover under Vista (RC2). Other styles work. Could be a windowblinds-bug also.

Double post...

People, stay calm. I am sure the problems will be worked on. Brads post is for sure a BIG step in the right direction. For me I have no doubt I will renew my OD-subscription in January.

Hello to All* & Merry Christmas,
I think that the new theme 'looks' Super! However,
Why is this not available to those that are Object Desktop subscribers as well?
Also, regarding the two separate subscriptions; considering the higher cost for the OD Script; the fact that I have purchased a great amount of Premium themes/suites; and just today, finally purchasing Cursor XP, shouldn't there be some way where members of either, along with a "premium purchase", automatically become members of WC?
My Very Best Wishes to One & All*!
JoeyLee*

shouldn't there be some way where members of either, along with a "premium purchase", automatically become members of WC?

Joey, a Wincustomize.com subscription is a specific fund-raiser for Wincustomize.com [the site], whereas purchasing Object Desktop, etc is a straight-forward product purchase, where the price paid sustains the product development itself and has no direct bearing on this site...

No offense Jaffo*, (personally), but after spending as much as I have, for OD and almost all of the premium themes, this being offered to 'Members Only' is offensive to ME.

Sorry!! Merry Christmas,
Joey Lee*

No offense Jaffo*, (personally), but after spending as much as I have, for OD and almost all of the premium themes, this being offered to 'Members Only' is offensive to ME

To give an example, were I to spend half a million dollars buying a Ferrari should I then expect all my petrol to be free?

The freely provided themes, etc are specifically for Subscribers....as a reward/incentive for subscribing.

It is not discriminatory [thus should not be seen as 'offensive'] but simple cause-and-effect.

He who subscribes [directly financially supports the site] reaps the reward.

I spend an inordinate amount of time 'supporting' the site, too...but it is my commercial support [subscription] that allows me access to these skins, nothing else....

this being offered to 'Members Only' is offensive to ME.

Part of being a WC subscriber is to get exclusive content.  Most of the people who subscribe to this site also own the software that content is available for on this site.  People buy subscriptions to this site to allow distribution for free content to everyone.  The exclusive content is basically a "Thank you" gift to the loyal subscribers.  If the suite was available to all customers, it would degrade the value of the subscription.

Hopefully, we will be able to have more of these as a continued bonus for subscribers.  We (Stardock Design) also plan to provide high quality content for the libraries on WC as well, especially some of the more neglected ones.

rhoss1... please choose an alternate image/symbol for your Avatar.

The swastika hasn't been an acceptable symbol in mainstream use for over 70 years....

And yeah, the Vista RC2 for the WC Select WB Skin is a bit quirky and has some obvious bugs. Though, I'd expect that since it was designed for XP. I know you all will get it updated No worries!

Ok. Prior problem solved. Subscription updated. Downloaded this great suite. Thanks to all at stardock and wincustomize!

Glad to hear you have that all fixed Kroogz.

I don't know what is wrong but the suite will not run for me. I am new here and I keep getting a message that MyColors won't support it. Please Help. Michelle

suite looks great..gonna wait til more comes out before i subscribe again

hoss1... please choose an alternate image/symbol for your Avatar

Still there and I find it very offending.

rhoss1 Please change your avatar without further delay. Thankyou.

Please change your avatar without further delay.

It has been up for days. Surely someone could have removed it by now. Disgraceful!!
It's getting too easy to avoid stopping in here these days.   

WinCustomize moderators do not interfere with messageboard threads unless circumstances are extreme. Due to the level of offence and continuing offence this avatar is causing, the post has been removed.

I don't usually take this kind of drastic action, I hope people don't mind.

Much better. Sorry I had to bark but I think most understand.   

I keep getting a message that MyColors won't support it. Please Help. Michelle

I'm guessing that 'MyColors' is the same as say 'AlienGuise' - it will only allow you to run themes based on the OEM (as in other MyColors) - but will not support running other skins that need WB, et al, to be installed separately

I'm guessing that 'MyColors' is the same as say 'AlienGuise' - it will only allow you to run themes based on the OEM (as in other MyColors) - but will not support running other skins that need WB, et al, to be installed separately

Yep, that is it exactly.  MyColors is a base install of the programs and will only run the suite that you purchased.  The free theme requires the purchased versions of the software to run.

I had to do an "Open with..." Theme manager becuase My Colours stole the association.

Needless to say, "My Colours" is no longer installed on this system. Of cousre, when I uninstalled My Colours it removed a bunch of my ODNT apps. Grrrr.   

Stardock, there needs to be a fix for ODNT users who apply the OEM themes.

I remember when I got one of the first AlienGuise themes - when I went to install, it told me I already had Stardock products including theme manager and asked if i wanted to use that/those to apply the theme = i clicked yes and never had an issue.

Maybe they need to be like that for ODNT subscribers?

I do notice I have:

ThemeMgr.exe (ThemeManager 2007) & ThemeMgrO.exe (Theme Manager) in the TM folder

I'm guessing the ThemeMgrO is the OEM...