Skinner's Updates
Friday, October 24, 2014 by Jaroepz | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Greeting guy's i know this is prob a stupid question but with all the updates that all the Skinner's are doing to older skins (greatly appreciated)
to update my collection do i just overwrite the older one with the newer version downloaded from my acct. im trying to update my window blind collection
thanks for the help
Ed... 
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Reply #3 Friday, October 24, 2014 10:53 AM
Well, if it were me, I would back up everything you have first...before you overwrite the old with the new. Just a suggestion.
Reply #4 Friday, October 24, 2014 11:02 AM
Well, if it were me, I would back up everything you have first...before you overwrite the old with the new. Just a suggestion
ok thanks Wizard i just figured that i would unzip the new .wba then over write the old folder... i have my C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds
backed up
Thank you very much
Reply #5 Friday, October 24, 2014 11:04 AM
Wiz is correct. When I replied, you had said:
Greeting guy's i know this is prob a stupid question
And I had no answer for the non question...lol. Yeah, the enter key is addictive.
Reply #6 Friday, October 24, 2014 11:39 AM
There are two maybe more Masters that have been doing that for some time now. Starone (Christine) and Lightstar (Tom). I know for sure what Starone is doing and think it's the only way to do it. She is taking Windowblinds she made 10 years ago or longer that were made for xp and Vista. They are opened in SKS. New graphics are made that are required for win 7 and 8. Sometimes even modifications to the startmenu or whatever else. Than they are just uploaded as usual using the same name. In the description they are just noted saying updated for win 7 and 8 or should i say 8.1. Wouldn't hurt to contact one or both of them and ask.
Reply #7 Friday, October 24, 2014 11:45 AM
There are two maybe more Masters that have been doing that for some time now. Starone (Christine) and Lightstar (Tom). I know for sure what Starone is doing and think it's the only way to do it. She is taking Windowblinds she made 10 years ago or longer that were made for xp and Vista. They are opened in SKS. New graphics are made that are required for win 7 and 8. Sometimes even modifications to the startmenu or whatever else. Than they are just uploaded as usual using the same name. In the description they are just noted saying updated for win 7 and 8 or should i say 8.1. Wouldn't hurt to contact one or both of them and ask.
good idea!!
thanks Dave! 
Reply #8 Friday, October 24, 2014 11:50 AM
In general, it's better to delete old skins before installing updates. Occasionally just stomping on the old one causes a problem, it's been noted in the comments of skin updates from time to time. Doesn't mean you won't get away with it, up to you.
Reply #9 Friday, October 24, 2014 11:50 AM
Actually there are 3 Masters updating older skins Dave, Starone, myself and vStyler. You can backup your skins prior to installing Jaroepz, it's not a bad idea. But I would also after doing the backup completely delete the old skin you are replacing from inside Windowblinds (right click on it and delete the skin), then install the new one. The reason for this is that in a lot of cases there may be extra files that would be leftover in the old skin after the new skin is installed, so doing a clean skin install is much better. Of course make sure you are not deleting a skin that is currently applied when you do the delete. 
Reply #10 Friday, October 24, 2014 12:04 PM
Yeap, I'd do what LightStar said, as you will have leftover files that may corrupt the skin. 
Reply #11 Friday, October 24, 2014 12:12 PM
So, are the masters giving the updates to those that purchased them before or are they being charged for them again? just curious.
Reply #13 Friday, October 24, 2014 12:26 PM
I knew if I posted something at least one or more of the people doing it would clear things up. It also gave me a few pointers. Thanks.
That is why I suggested to contact one or more of the people doing it. But you did it right here for all of us to learn from. Appreciate it.
Reply #14 Friday, October 24, 2014 12:53 PM
Actually there are 3 Masters updating older skins Dave, Starone, myself and vStyler. You can backup your skins prior to installing Jaroepz, it's not a bad idea. But I would also after doing the backup completely delete the old skin you are replacing from inside Windowblinds (right click on it and delete the skin), then install the new one. The reason for this is that in a lot of cases there may be extra files that would be leftover in the old skin after the new skin is installed, so doing a clean skin install is much better. Of course make sure you are not deleting a skin that is currently applied when you do the delete.
thanks Lightstar you are one of the ones i was talking about cause i have purchased a good number of skins from you and wanted to take advantage of the updates you and others are offering ...(in which case i wanted to say thank you to you and everybody else for the work in doing so)
SO THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!
Ed 
Reply #15 Friday, October 24, 2014 12:55 PM
In general, it's better to delete old skins before installing updates. Occasionally just stomping on the old one causes a problem, it's been noted in the comments of skin updates from time to time. Doesn't mean you won't get away with it, up to you.
thanks DaveRI....
Reply #17 Friday, October 24, 2014 1:45 PM
I knew if I posted something
Just random timing on my part, Dave. I did want to get the overwriting issue out there before he got everything tangled up. My post would have looked even sillier if I'd spent 6 more seconds poking around on the keyboard and ended up right after LightStar's. 
We got there though.
Reply #18 Friday, October 24, 2014 6:00 PM
Ed....get another hard drive and archive what you get. You never know if you might have to use an older machine...and then you have skins to use. I save everything. I still have skins made for WB4...lol
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Reply #1 Friday, October 24, 2014 10:33 AM
I would question this question.
It is questionable that it even really is a question.
Um, er.... what was the question?