The good skins really do age well
Friday, August 24, 2012 by ZubaZ | Discussion: Skinning
I had to test something and needed a skin with sounds.
I found this on by dani and fired it up in XP and Win7
While it could use some tweaking, I was amazed at well an eight year old skin held up.
What's the oldest skin you have installed on your system (Snowy can't play) and what's the old time skin you go back to?
I end up with Vector-cell (https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/4350/) adn DogmaX (https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/5498/)
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Reply #22 Friday, August 24, 2012 7:42 PM
DMN Tweak R2 by Jay is probably the oldest in my collection... plays pretty well on Win 7 tho there is an eentsy weentsy bit of magic pink on the task bar beside the start button and sys tray. Other than that it's okay.
Reply #23 Friday, August 24, 2012 8:29 PM
Sektor, by Dani. It works really well on Win7 as it is, but I did tweak a couple things to update it a bit. It's still one of my favorites.
Reply #24 Friday, August 24, 2012 9:04 PM
Always find myself returning to "intoxik8ed" and "Bruiserwb" by Night Train (Craig Oman). Also a soft spot in my heart for "geo-logic" and "Not of this Earth" by I.R. Brainiac and "3D metal" from The A/V Man.
Reply #25 Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:51 AM
Inspired by this thread I fired up Sountox 2004 and Universe Metal 2004. Although they have some color issues in explorer they do pretty well. Nevertheless I really would like to see UM in new glory.
Reply #26 Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:00 PM
I may need to fire up my XP VM and download ALL these skins!
Reply #27 Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:34 PM
Some elements reworked by me for Windows 7 compatibility.
Reply #28 Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:46 PM
This I reworked for Vista some years ago, but it works just fine on W7
Reply #29 Sunday, August 26, 2012 5:16 PM
FreeArea_VistaR4 by dReamxis
Nacent by essorant
Vectra by vStyler
K-TEK Steel by Tiggz
Anything & Everything by danilloOc
Reply #30 Monday, August 27, 2012 5:40 AM
Snowman can't play, eh?
Well, F'you. Since when have I played by the rules? 
Makinarama by the God of skinning, Master of graphics and Ruler of design - now and then, treetog. No one above, only few beside him. (Only three come to mind actually. Hippy, MikeB314 and Voo)
Made back in 2000, and released in 2001.
I DO have older skins installed, but they do not have the startmenu skinned. (Note for future (Windows XP) projects)
Snowman moons ZubaZ 
Reply #34 Monday, August 27, 2012 8:16 PM
Reply #35 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:06 PM
MetalX2 - Gotta Have It - Looking at the "Today" downloads I see I'm not the only one - thanks for the pointer 
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Reply #21 Friday, August 24, 2012 3:49 PM
Oddly enough the title lead me to believe this was another Birthday post for Po..
