VERY FRUSTRATED
Is it ME?????
Saturday, September 24, 2005 by IndigoRoses | Discussion: Beginners
I am VERY FRUSTRATED right about now & am almost regretting spending the money I did for object desktop, CursorXP etc. I have been trying for 3days now to apply suites & themes (
not sure what the difference is but there are two diff categories s I am assuming there is one)EVERY SINGLE ONE says that nothing is downloaded for the themes, icons, cursors, window blinds. I had originally downloaded in the .zip format & extracted them, then read the post explaining that that was exactly what NOT to do, so I followed that & renamed everything accordingly -still nothing. Then I went & downloaded all the themes/suites again only this time changing the extension b4 they downloaded -still nothing. Then finally I tried to apply the suites & got the popup sayng that it was downloading the needed components & applying but nothing gets applied. Then finally I tried to it one component @ a time but that only seems to change my cursors correctly, I could understand if it was just one or two, but I'm talking over TWENTY!!! I have my fingers crossed that someone will...please help? 
I'd hate to have to give this up & ask for a refund because I can see that it will be great fun to play with EVERYTHING.Here is my system configuration:
WinXP Home
Radeon 9600 XT
On board sound card C-Media (for now)
Direct X 9.0c(something like that)
Any help or suggestions would be more than greatly appreciated!! Thank-You in advance!!!
Reply #2 Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:12 AM
IndigoRoses,
You may be running into an issue with Theme Manager that seems to appear intermittently.
First, start by making sure the Object Desktop programs are all installed correctly (for a review on this procedure, you can go here http://corkyo.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?SID=5463&AID=83625
2 - Make sure all the installed programs will start by clicking their icons in the Start>All Programs menu.
3 - Download content files using the method described here http://corkyo.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?SID=5463&AID=82563 - this is not the only way, but will allow you to download the files with the original extension intact.
4 - Download a ".suite" file from the Suites library using above method, and then double-click to apply.
5 - If you still have issues, you can manually apply these suites by changing the ".suite" extension to ".zip", and extracting the contents.
6 - After extracting the contents, you will either have a preview image, perhaps an icon, and a "WinStyles.ini" file - or you will have a preview image, perhaps an icon, and a "WinStyles.ini" file, and a few folders which contain the skin files for the various programs.
7 - For the files with just the preview, icon, and WinStyles.ini file, you can open the WinStyles.ini file and look under the [Files] entry > copy the address after the "PROGRAM NAME =" listing > Paste into the address bar of your Internet Browser > hit Enter > download should start automatically.
8 - After downloading files, you can double-click to apply, or place them in the correct sub-directory depending on the file type that downloaded.
9 - For the ".suite" file that contains the skin folders, you can just copy or move those to the correct sub-directory.
10 - In both methods listed in #7 & #9, you would start the individual programs after installing the skins, and apply.
Sorry that I do not have a better fix for the Theme Manager isssue. Hopefully someone else will drop by with an easier solution.
Note - you can click my name to go to my page, and you will see a list of the current mini tutorials I have posted, which should help you understand the programs a bit better from a basic file structure point of view. 
Reply #3 Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:42 AM
| Hang in there. The people around here will get you straightened out. |
Thank-You very much. I can tell from reading other topics that there are a # of folks that have their "speciality" & ALL seem to be more than willing to help, like yourself
.IndigoRoses
(a.k.a. Heather)
Reply #4 Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:44 AM
Thank-You so very much also. I will go & try everything you have suggested here & let you know what I have come up with!!
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Reply #1 Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:04 AM
Suites are a collection of themes bundled together to create a package. A suite would contain a windowblind theme, icon packager theme, wallpaper, etc. Some have more themes or less.
Hang in there. The people around here will get you straightened out.