Other places to visit

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While we restore from backup here are some other places that have skins and themes of the kind you'll find here:
First some not as well known that are very high quality:
http://www.pixtudio.com/index.php?page=skins
http://www.skinplant.com/
http://www.essorant.com/
All 3 of these sites have both free skins and premium skins to choose from.
Here are some others:
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.skinbase.org
http://www.theskinsfactory.com
http://www.customize.org
http://www.velocityart.com/
We're in the process of restoring from backup but as you can imagine, we're having to do it from remote (the servers are in California, we're in Michigan). There will probably be some skins/themes/walls missing for at first so authors who have recently submitted content may be contacted to resubmit the file.



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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey, thanks for the link! (And amongst such good company.)
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Indeed, thanks a lot!
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks. Good luck with the backup!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hope the RAID array rebuild & data restore is going as well as can be expected since the operators and the servers are in different states....

Thanks for all the tremendous work that 'yall do for us daily, and without much complaint....Like a reminder now and again to donate is really complaining....
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
good luck! I remember what rebuilds were like from a co-lo.

Keep up the wonderful work all!

Hope your turkey tastes good, when you get it!
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top


so many people are going to the other sites that some of them are not responing (server overload)

Just goes to show you just how much WinCustomize goes through every day.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thats funny JTB. I noticed that too! No wonder the servers crashed. "Thats it, were tired!" *crash*
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
is pixtudio.com said it was overloaded?
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
pixtudio is one of the sites that doesnt have the overload message, customize.org on the other hand does
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what happens on Pixtudio is that the images load slower. That is what happened to me.

I find it very fasenating. Some site show the numbers of current on-line viewers and the numbers are in the 300 range for those site that have that indicator.

Essorant's was slow too. Actually all the sites either had server problems or was slow to load.

It is amazing how much WinCustomize handles in one day.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
maybe all them other skinnin sites look at wincustomize like as a big bro..wincustomize is a great site and i would like to thank everyone at stardock for all of their hard work to bring us these wonderful skins done by many various talented artists..SO big thanks to all of you admins and skinners for keepin our desktops looking great everyday. I remember when windows gui was completely basic..everything was just average..them ancient days, nowadays with all these talented ppl and their contributions to the skinning community, such as essosarant.com,deviantart,pixtudio,skinplant,adnis site , just to name a few, cant forget about brother wincustomize. From me i would like to give thanks to you all for all the things that yal have done and wishin you all a very Happy Thanksgiving, hope all the RAID configs work out...Phrozen
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The Skins Factory is having zero speed problems. We're set up to handle a terrabyte of download traffic a month and our dedicated server is on rackshack. Some of the library is connected to Wincustomize's library but we'll be updating that shortly. Most are available though.