Nothing changes except my wiggets and desktop background!!!

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Everytime I reapply my theme. (Dragon Theme)  Nothing changes but the background and the wiggets pop up.  NOTHING else changes!!!

I thought maybe I could find what was wrong with it, so I opened mycolors and double clicked on the dragon theme.  Then this window poped up showing me all the different things I could add, and at the bottom, underneith where is it says Theme manager (Object Desktop) the only check boxes that are there are for the wiggets! (weather and clock)  The other two that have no checkboxes (Icons package and WindowsBlinds skin) say they are not installed!!!

I have downloaded the dragon theme mulitple times, and all the icons and the windowsblinds folders inside the dragon theme folder were fine!  I don't see what is wrong!

Thanks to any and all help!

*I run Vista 64bit*

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Do you have the other components (apps) of the suite installed?  Windowblinds?  Iconpackager?

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Nope, you need WindowBlinds in order to apply the WindowBlinds theme, etc.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting BrandyCamstra, reply 2
I thought you didn't need that to run themes.  And that mycolors took care of all of that.

That is my understanding as well, at least in terms of seperately puchasing Windowblinds.  If you have Impulse installed, open it up and right click on the MyColors icon, and select "Verify installation".  It should then tell you whether if it is installed correctly or if you need to update/reinstall it.

If you don't have Impulse installed, you might try opening MyColors, clicking on the "settings" tab, click on the "check for updates" button on the bottom.

Either of these need to be done while you're logged on with administrater rights, howver that's done in Vista. (Sorry, vista ignorant here.)

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I have just downloaded the windowsblinds and icon packager thingy...  Now everything is right except my icons.  They still look the same. (like me folders and stuff)

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you just downloaded the demo versions of those they're going to stop working in about a month.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I really don't believe you needed to buy Windowblinds or Icon Packager.  I believe if you downloaded and installed MyColors from here:

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

and purchased the Dragon theme from here:

https://www.stardock.com/products/mycolors/gallery.asp?p=dragon&c=designs

it should have worked.  I'm not sure that the free icon packager will work under MyColors (if the MyColors icon packager version isn't already working right), that might be your problem there, but like I said I don't think you really need to buy the pay version of it either.  If you want to get a proper clarification on this you might want to contact Stardock directly here:

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit

and include a link to this thread.

On the other hand, with the purchased version of Windowblinds you can now run the non-MyColors Windowblinds skins.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I actually asked in case the OP had WB abd IP installed and it was causing a conflict . . not because they were requiered.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's good - sometimes I wonder if I'm having one huge "Senior Moment".:zzz: