bootskin vista is it dangerous

There's something I'm not getting, Gradv50....why is it "dangerous"?

As a separate issue: If you decide to install any application, what happens afterwards is your responsibility.

Perhaps in the OP you should give some background about what happened to your system as a result of installation (and support it).

Apart from that I do believe that a "Known Bugs" should be easily accessable to perouse before deciding to purchase and/or download and install any piece of software.

While it may not  currently work for you or others,that hardly classifies it as "dangerous" It's being looked into and worked on,Stardock does it's best to see that all of it's software works for everybody,imho.

Like all software it may or may not work properly on all systems. If it doesn't work for you,why don't you just uninstall it and find some other program or hack to change your bootskin?

All this fuss over a still image that is only visible for a very short  time (seconds) and is hardly something you have to have in order to use your computer or increase it's usefullness. It's eye candy,not your OS!

"Some drivers and bios makers "break the rules" which can cause BootSkin Vista to not work correctly. If you experience that, you can remove BootSkin Vista by deleting \windows\system32\drivers\vidstub.sys. And then try one these alternative versions."

https://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/downloads.asp

That should be checked starts off about BootSkin XP Alternative Versions of BootSkin then

Downloads become for Vista.

Could well be the XP ones.

It has been forwarded for review.

You should explain in more detail how exactly it's "dangerous".

There's nothing "dangerous" about the program. It's probably a poor word choice. I asked the same question in Reply #1 and never got an answer.

In reply to the above. I was referring to that upon applying bootskin vista as was suggested to me, ie. change the language to us english my computer would not boot up at all, the only keys that worked were the alt + ctl + del keys and nothing else, f8 f12 or del keys failed to work and i had to completely reinstall windows vista via my old hdd that i still had, if i had not the other hdd it may have cost 100s of pounds to put right. Now if say someone else did the same and was not as lucky or knowledgeable then it would have been very costly.

All it would take is if stardock put a warning on the application to begin with then everything would be alright. Do not give me this rubbish about its the software and its your choice, pathetic excuse. Sometimes you can not uninstall because your computer can crash and everything is unworkable and you have to reinstall the os and that is if you have a oem version, because microsoft will not allow you to reinstall, it thinks it will be going on a different computer, you can of course put that right but it costs money, money you should not have to pay. Do you now get my drift.

Warning:

 This OS is subject to erratic behaviour,random bugs and sudden inexplicable crashes.Use at your own risk.

Perhaps it is Microsoft that needs to have the warning.

Grad....to me it sounds like another problem...not SD software related. No one's reported a problem like this (to my knowledge...albeit limited) here in forums. Perhaps you picked up a vius/worm/trojan somehow? You also didn't reference a prior thread where you talked about a problem and any advice for solving it. That's understandable if one's upset, but people here couldn't divine that from your OP, and therefore related to what wrote....

Does not matter, have installed the latest version of bootskin, and works up to now anyway, have noticed that when you apply it message window says english united kingdom. So problem solved hopefully. Think it will because also noticed when you apply it says such and such has been applied, before it used to revert back to windows default in the applied window, now the picture you have applied stays in the applied window, if you know what i mean. Cheers everyone.

Glad your problem is solved (hope it's solved!).

I can tell you exactly how it is dangerous.  I have vista ultimate oem upgrade on a HP laptop that had vista home premium on it.  Every time I install and apply a new boot skin my system will not come up on  reboot.  In fact it hangs at a blank screen.  I have had to use two extra of my five lifetime limit of online vista activations to reinstall everything back onto my system and trust me it's alot of stuff that works perfectly otherwise and is well tweaked and humming along just fine without it.

Thus and so, I am looking for answers why on the forum to no avail just yet.

My first reaction is to install impulse on a virtual machine and safely test everything in safety before I use it in production given the bad experience I have with it.  However that much testing is dangerous as I would probably lose my registration for re-activating the products so much.  Maybe,  maybe  not but I am certainly not willing to test that right now and my fustration would be to dump it and tell everyone I could just how dangerous it is and how a bad experience led to more bad experiences and lost a few bucks along the way.  This is the worst I've come across so far for Object Desktop Ultimate.  The things that don't work I can live with as overall these tools work as advertised.  But losing access to  my machine, that doesn't make me happy at all at any price.

Enough ranting.  What I really need to know is what files to back up so I can restore them to see where the resolution is.  I know all about how to do it manually (without or before BSV), but what I don't know is if BSV does any variation and don't really care.  Just how to get access to my system back when the program crashes.

Once I  get that far then we can talk about why a grown man is so fixated with controlling his boot screen, and only through Stardock, when it only appears for under ten  seconds anyway and even then ostensibly when the pc starts anyway.  After all, no one ever ran over to my screen to  watch it boot before.  Thank God.  I, however, reserve the right to run over my screen anytime I've had enough.  That might draw attention I am pretty sure.

I'm about to download the paid version through impulse again after spending a week and a half at restoring and tweaking everything just the way I want it - again.  I know what they say about people who do the same thing over and over again expecting different results.  I  know  what your probably thinking - so am I.  That so  far no one I've found reported the same problem.

My quest is simple.  Just explain the backup and restore procedure for the files/keys etc without having to backup everything which takes hours on end.

Thank You in Advance.

imrs232c -

If you haven't done so already then please contact [email protected] and initiate a trouble ticket.  They will work with you to resolve your issues with the program.

Bootskin is not dangerous but its a error mother board and other that Intel Board it will support and it will work but in other mother board. Just you can try on intel board which is compaitable and other is not working. And I try this.

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