March skinning madness!!!
Saturday, March 1, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Next week: CursorXP 1.3. Which works on limited user accounts, supports hyperthreaded systems, better, faster shadows, and uses less memory.Week after: ObjectBar 1.6 which supports the new MCP so that when you boot up your system it's already set up nicely. Uses less memory and is easier to use.
Following week: The next generation version of SkinStudio. Version 3 has a MUCH easier to use interface, supports the new features of WindowBlinds 4, and allows for editing multiple skins at once.
Also in March is the release of the replacement to old Component Manager. Stardock Central.
Screenshots:
https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/sdc-mar03.jpg
https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/sdc-mar03a.jpg
It'll let you keep track of all your stuff from a central location and has chat and eventually message boards built in (And if you have a WC subscription we plan to eventually detect that and integrate skin downloads into it as well).
And then, last week of March, WindowBlinds version 4. Not only does it now skin all of Windows XP, but it now skins various dialogs and the command prompt! But a lot of people are talking about the performance of WindowBlinds 4. On many skins, it approaches classic in speed. In third party benchmarks it's more than twice as fast as WindowBlinds 3 and msstyles in moving and resizing windows and it is much faster than WindowBlinds 3.
All of this for THIS month. And to top it all off, the first episode of Stardock TV should show up this month!
If you don't have Object Desktop or want to renew:
https://www.stardock.com/order.asp?product=objectdesktop
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jarget
Reply #2 Saturday, March 1, 2003 1:10 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, March 1, 2003 1:10 PM
I have the current beta of WB4. Is there a reason explorer backgrounds are not skinning. The skins I'm trying have explorer bg's and I have my explorer set to "View Icons" and the WB options are set. Got WinXP HE.
TheSkinsFactory
Reply #4 Saturday, March 1, 2003 2:01 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, March 1, 2003 2:01 PM
so the new component mgr is going to look like copperdeck? Or is that a skin over it.
BadKharma
Reply #6 Saturday, March 1, 2003 3:22 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, March 1, 2003 3:22 PM
what happened to the desktop x 2? or is that coming out at a later date?
c242
Reply #7 Saturday, March 1, 2003 4:41 PM
Reply #7 Saturday, March 1, 2003 4:41 PM
Wouldn't be bad to have the newsgroups embedded as a board system or similar into Stardock Central. Just a quick idea. 
bmetelsky
Reply #8 Saturday, March 1, 2003 5:52 PM
Reply #8 Saturday, March 1, 2003 5:52 PM
When will the new subscriber suite be out? Any screenshots yet? Thanks.
bmetelsky
Reply #9 Saturday, March 1, 2003 5:59 PM
Reply #9 Saturday, March 1, 2003 5:59 PM
Nevermind,
I guess I should really read the newsletter instead of skimming through it.
I guess I should really read the newsletter instead of skimming through it.
Frogboy
Reply #11 Saturday, March 1, 2003 6:57 PM
Reply #11 Saturday, March 1, 2003 6:57 PM
c242: We want to, just can't find a newsreader OCX to do it. Otherwise we'd have to write a news reader from scratch.
jarget
Reply #12 Saturday, March 1, 2003 7:16 PM
Reply #12 Saturday, March 1, 2003 7:16 PM
barslinger you need to be an Object Desktop subscriber to download alpha WB software. I don't think it has been released to the public yet. Go here: https://www.stardock.com
da_zman20
Reply #14 Sunday, March 2, 2003 1:31 AM
Reply #14 Sunday, March 2, 2003 1:31 AM
Stardock tv is a new idea that we haven't heard much about yet.. but it's going to be like a tv show over the net about skinning and how to's and such... 
looks like a cool idea... Can't wait for this month ahead... and I didn't know anything about the new cursor XP... do registered users get free upgrades??? or will I need to pay to upgrade to the new version...????
looks like a cool idea... Can't wait for this month ahead... and I didn't know anything about the new cursor XP... do registered users get free upgrades??? or will I need to pay to upgrade to the new version...???? 
LStatie
Reply #15 Sunday, March 2, 2003 4:13 AM
Reply #15 Sunday, March 2, 2003 4:13 AM
On my home computer running WinXP Pro I can see Control Panel & DropDowns on Explorer windows skinned. On my Work Computer running same WinXP Pro but requiring CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon, I cannot see this skinned. ANy reason why?
P.S. Impressive work. WB4 in alpha form already skins all the apps I was not able to get skinned before.
P.S. Impressive work. WB4 in alpha form already skins all the apps I was not able to get skinned before.
c242
Reply #16 Sunday, March 2, 2003 5:28 AM
Reply #16 Sunday, March 2, 2003 5:28 AM
Frogboy : Oh, I thought the msinet.ocx provides this functionality, too. 
Havent't dealt much with it though, only use it to dial up freedb in my own access cd-database...
Havent't dealt much with it though, only use it to dial up freedb in my own access cd-database...
rikkie
Reply #17 Sunday, March 2, 2003 7:13 PM
Reply #17 Sunday, March 2, 2003 7:13 PM
Seems like stardock is dumping all users who are using anything BUT windows xp, too bad , I really liked their products and bought object desktop last year for that reason.
Drayce
Reply #18 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:33 PM
Reply #18 Sunday, March 2, 2003 11:33 PM
I believe Stardock is focusing on releasing WB4 for XP users first because of the advanced capabilities of the XP OS. I think they are planning an updated version of WB for 98/ME/2K users following the release of WB4. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they have any intention of abandoning users of other versions of Windows.
c242
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 12:21 PM
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 12:21 PM
Any chance to see a screenshot of the new skinstudio ?
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Reply #1 Saturday, March 1, 2003 12:32 PM