Weekly Poll: The Impulse Switch

Will you do it?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News

We're quickly coming up on the full launch of Impulse, our next generation digital distribution, software management and community tool.  Impulse, as pretty much everyone should know by now, is the successor to Stardock Central, and will eventually replace the aging download tool entirely (though not immediately, it's going to be a phased retirement).  Since early this year we've had first a private group of testers hammering on Impulse, and then the larger community in an open beta to try and iron out as many kinks as possible. 

You all have provided a lot of feedback that has helped us refine the tool and make it even better.  Now with the full launch approaching, I'd like to know if/when everyone is thinking about upgrading.  Will it be immediately?  Will you wait for a later version?  Are you going to hold out until the very end no matter what or have you already switched?

Results up next week!

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neophil78
Reply #21 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:59 PM
Personally I prefered SDC because its simple and did just what I needed it to...something to keep my stuff updated....thats all I've ever used SDC for. I could do without all the bells and whistles of Impulse. Don't get me wrong...Impulse looks pretty and all that...its just that I like to keep it simple


ditto   

Philly0381
Reply #22 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:03 PM
I like impulse a lot but would really miss the ability to be able to search the skins library. I use SDC for that more that anything.


I've seen this statement in a couple of other posts and not sure why people are just not opening WinCustmoize from withing Impulse. I have done this since Impulse was made available to us to test.

It's really very simple. When I open Impulse I sign in, click My Desktop, on the right hand side (no matter what desktop item you are on) you see options. I click forums, it goes back to the Community page and in a second or two takes me to the WC forums page. From their I click Home. Guess where I wind up.   

liquidguru
Reply #23 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:44 PM
The thing that bugs me is that the Title Bar, Window Frames and Buttons do not get skinned. They have their own design. Stardock is all about skinning you desktop, so I have always wondered why they have forced their design for Impulse on us? I think it's functionality is great, but it makes me cringe when I start it up because it doesn't match all my other windows. I know you can skin it yourself, but this is rather missing the point. It should, Title Bar, Window Frames and Max Min Buttons, match whatever skin you are using.

The latest version of IconPackager does this, so why can't Impilse?

For this reason I'll keep using SDC

(oh, and it does seem a little slow to connect...)

zakai1369
Reply #24 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:49 PM
liquidguru: Stardock Logo>Preferences>Disable Custom Skin

vicvlz
Reply #25 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:33 PM
I personally liked Impulse but the program right now is still kinda buggy. My Impulse still have a hard time connecting to the servers to download product updates. My old reliable SDC on the other hand does what Impulse cannot, and that is updating all my Stardock programs. So until the developers of Impulse had fully cured the program of bugs, I'll hang on to my SDC which is hassle-free.

liquidguru
Reply #26 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:18 PM
liquidguru: Stardock Logo>Preferences>Disable Custom Skin


Thanks so much....it was as simple as that

WebGizmos
Reply #27 Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:10 AM
Stardock Logo>Preferences>Disable Custom Skin
Cool Zakai! Didn't know that either!

grorgy
Reply #28 Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:09 AM
ive been using it, but it hardly ever logs in for me, so i went back, stardock central may be older but it works for me

vStyler
Reply #29 Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:48 AM
Make sure it doesn't have the Stardock name on it anywhere, Phoon won't be able to use it.    Me, Gonna stick with SDC till I have to switch.. call me a traditionalist   

Quicksilver007
Reply #30 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:10 AM
I have had too much hassle with Impulse, I will wait till v2 comes out, until then I will stick with SDC, it shows any updates that I need & it can easily view any new skins. Can't say the same for Impulse

zakai1369
Reply #31 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:28 AM
Thanks so much....it was as simple as that


Cool Zakai! Didn't know that either!



Phoon
Reply #32 Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:30 AM
Make sure it doesn't have the Stardock name on it anywhere, Phoon won't be able to use it.
Funny man! Fortunately, Impulse is only open long enough to do updates and advertisements aren't staring at me every time I look at other areas of my system.  

neophil78
Reply #33 Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:38 AM
I've seen this statement in a couple of other posts and not sure why people are just not opening WinCustmoize from withing Impulse

Just because Impluse doesn't work with IE6   

MichaelG04
Reply #34 Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:23 PM
no skin browser, also doesn't show my wincustomize apps i get for being a WC subsrciber

Bebi Bulma
Reply #35 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:36 PM
no skin browser, also doesn't show my wincustomize apps i get for being a WC subsrciber

WC subscribers don't get any apps. The WC subscription is for the content (unlimited downloads, no ads, up to 100 skins per page, discounts, personal photo album, 12 free StardockDesigns skins a year, etc). The ODNT subscription gives you the programs.

zakai1369
Reply #36 Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:49 PM
Did he maybe mean the WC Tray and Browser?

ZubaZ
Reply #37 Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:41 PM
Isnt' the WincustomizeBrowser only available to subscribers.  It's a nice (if dated) app for skin and forum browsing and IRC chat.

Bebi Bulma
Reply #38 Friday, June 13, 2008 1:08 AM
Isnt' the WincustomizeBrowser only available to subscribers.  It's a nice (if dated) app for skin and forum browsing and IRC chat.

No apparently there's a free version too.

OpusCroakus
Reply #39 Friday, June 13, 2008 8:44 AM
Personally I prefered SDC because its simple and did just what I needed it to...something to keep my stuff updated and chat....thats all I've ever used SDC for. I could do without all the bells and whistles of Impulse. Don't get me wrong...Impulse looks pretty and all that...its just that I like to keep it simple.
Another vote here. I'm using SDC until they pry it out of my cold dead hands. Far too many issues with Impulse so far, and it's way over complicated and gussied up. SDC kept things very simple and clean, and easy to both navigate and use.

ZubaZ
Reply #40 Friday, June 13, 2008 8:58 AM
it's way over complicated and gussied up. SDC kept things very simple and clean, and easy to both navigate and use.
I think Impulse is FAR simpler to use.  Few buttons and the big one lead the user to what to pick.  The UI has more graphics and color but that doesn't make it complicated, it jsut make it look like it wasn't written when NT4 was released.  

V2 is going to rock our socks I bet.  

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