My Colors Ankh Desktop

What a nice suprise

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 by CarGuy1 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Thought I'd open up Impulse and see if there were any new updates for my software today and to my surprise I found a new My Colors waiting to be downloaded. Great looking WindowBlind and Icon Package. Really nice job on this one, Stardock Designs.  

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Z71
Reply #21 Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:27 AM

Well, for some reason, I'm seeing an all white taskbar on Vista. Tried to fix it, several times, with no luck.

I've downloaded and reinstalled 3 times, with no success.

Works fine in XP, so I copied, that one, to Vista. Same results. No luck.

Also, the Start Menu and Taskbar aren't showing in the WB Config. window on Vista. The XP is though.

The Vista version, looks fine in XP but not in Vista.

Usually, it a margin issue, transparency, something missing, this has me stumped.

I'd re-copy the taskbar, but guess what, freaked out images.....go figure, so that's out.

Any ideas?

mickeko
Reply #22 Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:25 AM


Any ideas?

Switch to windows aero in mycolors, windowblinds AND theme manager. remember to make sure to apply the change in all of the programs. Reboot. Switch to ankh in either mycolors or theme manager. That should do it... Maybe... Good luck.

 

Cazzie
Reply #23 Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:31 AM

I love this theme....the best ever.....only thing missing is cursors.....Go Stardock!!!!

Wizard1956
Reply #24 Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:49 AM

Cazzie
I love this theme....the best ever.....only thing missing is cursors.....Go Stardock!!!!

Try one of these.I like the Dragons Jewel by Artur Berk best   LINK   but they all fit the theme well,imo.

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=2264&libid=25

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=2120&libid=25

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=2027&libid=25

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=2015&libid=25

mickeko
Reply #25 Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:01 AM

And glowywine theme for firefox... Absolutely delicious...

skyzyk
Reply #26 Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:09 AM

I got my notice yesterday and I still don't see it. I see I'm not the only one. Let's hope.

WebGizmos
Reply #27 Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:35 AM

You only need to load it with MyColors once

Well thats the thing Wiz....I'd rather not have to install MyColors at all since I already have WindowBlinds. But no biggy...I'll just have to do without this one again.

Wizard1956
Reply #28 Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:41 AM

WG,did you look for it in Theme Manager as per mickeko's suggestion.I can't get TM to load WB's at all though so that may not be of any use to you either.

Littleboy
Reply #29 Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:06 PM

How to  use MyColors them without MyColors

  1. Go to the Public user folder. There should be a few subdirectories under the Stardock folder ("ThemeManager", "WindowBlinds", "IconPackager", etc.)
  2. In the ThemeManager folder, open the .MyColors file using Winrar or an equivalent program.
  3. Inside the archive, there should be a few directories for IconPackager, WindowBlinds and widgets, along with wallpapers, the theme .ini file & preview and the theme icon.
  4. Extract the WindowBlinds and IconPackager themes into each application public folder (as found in the Stardock folder in 1.)
  5. The Windowblinds skin and Iconpackager package should now be available in their respective applications.

You will still need to have the theme activated for the WB skin to work (Impulse should have done it for you - look for the <theme name>.bin file in the ThemeManager folder). I don't know if you can download the theme from Impulse without installing MyColors though. You can probably trick it by adding the MyColors registry info manually, but that's pushing it

WebGizmos
Reply #30 Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:51 PM

WG,did you look for it in Theme Manager as per mickeko's suggestion

Yeah....don't use theme manager either. I just change whatever I want to change since I don't really use themes. And just me personally find it redundant to install so many programs that do pretty much the same thing or close to it. And besides that I'm always so busy creating other stuff I never really have one thing on my desktop for very long. It would just be nice to get these skins in .wba form so I can "customize" and create additional things they way I'd like to...so encrypted skins are kinda useless for me. But the skin looks great! And like I said...no biggy.

TheSkinsFactory
Reply #31 Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:05 PM

Same color scheme as our 7 year old Age of Mythology theme. Which means our WMP skin would work quite well with this. Check it out: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skinsfactory/?page=view&portID=93&portPage=6

If you use our WMP skin in screenshots please credit us with our name and link. As a courtesy. For some of you old timers the AoM skin was done by Kig with me art directing. Kig rocked!

 

Couple of comments about the theme...

1. The Ankh symbol needs some work. Seriously. I mean the theme is named Ankh, you could at least create the most beautiful and accurate design of one.

2. Next/Previous Arrow buttons: arrows are too dark if its in idle state. If its in disabled then its ok.

3. The green taskbar button looks out of place. Should have carried over the blue from the start menu to tie in the windows, icons and start menu with taskbar.

4. Also the blue gems on the start button should be the same size as the ones on the start menu and window so there is consistency among the elements.

Z71
Reply #32 Friday, May 1, 2009 1:40 PM

Nope. That didn't work.

Guess I'll wait for the unencrypted version, then I can enjoy it.

k10w3
Reply #33 Friday, May 1, 2009 1:57 PM


Guess I'll wait for the unencrypted version, then I can enjoy it.


There's going to be an unencrypted version?

Z71
Reply #34 Friday, May 1, 2009 2:12 PM

That's what the big guy said. Not sure how or who gets it. But it's probably an after thought now. It was 50 years ago.....

k10w3
Reply #35 Friday, May 1, 2009 3:48 PM

It was 50 years ago.....


From what I understand, that's how the big guy is with his products, likes to age them like fine wine...that and He who controls the Spice, controls the universe! (my fav quote from Dune).  The big guy is heavy on business sense. 

HawkInOz
Reply #36 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:03 PM

Not everything works with Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) 64-bit.  Rather disappointing actually.  The Taskbar and Start Button never get changed, and the System Tray looks funky (scrolled down, with the upper half of the icons showing).  Maybe an update will fix these issues.  Sure hope so, as this has a great look & feel.

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