How to get to skin studio

You should be able to download it from your product page.

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

If you go to your account page " My Downloads " https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products/

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Thanx ya'll ... I could not find that info anywhere THANK god for people

I am still having problems getting Skin Studio to run.  I have a current subscription to Object Desktop and therefore get WindowBlinds as part of the package.  When I go into Object Desktop, I have no listing of Skin Studio listed like all the other programs listed in Object Desktop.

I was under the impression that if you had downloaded and installed WindowBlinds from within Object Desktop that Skin Studio would automatically be installed as well.  Seeing as there is no separate listing within Object Desktop for Skin Studio, I am unaware of how to acquire it.

I also feel it's pertinent to explain what led me to realizing Skin Studio was no longer accessible to me.  For as far back as I can remember, I had no issues launching Skin Studio.  That being said, it's been perhaps a year since I launched Skin Studio.   Recently I needed to update a skin and when I went to launch Skin Studio from within WindowBlinds. it simply opened my web browser to Stardock's Skin Studio web page.  No matter what I do I can't get Skin Studio to launch. 

So I am not aware of what I can do.   

All that being said, I wonder if I may be experiencing a problem because I keep my WindowBlinds skins on a separate drive from my WindowBlinds default directory.   I carefully made all my adjustments in the Windows Registry as per what Redneck Dude instructed when I asked about how to go about changing where the skins were located.  

I am just wondering if somehow this would break the ability for Skin Studio to normally launch.  It's just a wild guess as I'm no expert, but I can't think of any other possible reason why I can't simply launch Skin Studio.

Thank you in advance for any further information you can provide.

When logged in, if you go to your product page https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products you should see your Object Desktop Manager, something like this:

Click on the "View Individual Dowloads" and you should get a list similar to mine, including a link to a Skinstudio installer and all the other apps:

I think there should be a pinned post about how to get SkinStudio. It's not like this is the first time the question has been raised.

I think that function broke a while back, but I'm not positive.  It's been broken for me, and I haven't relocated the skins etc.  Once you have SkinStudio installed, you should be able to launch it from the Start Menu (under Stardock) or directly from a shortcut you create.

"You made me look"    Nope, still broken for me, neither the gear command nor the skin right-click works here.   Same result as Digicoma.  Hasn't worked for me for ages, much more than a year or two.  When it quit I didn't bother with it really, just started launching it directly.

Mysteries of the 'puter.

For me, I just tested it, launching from the "cog wheel->Edit style in Skinstudio" and the "right click edit" on the selected skin within Windowblinds still work. But, I don't usually use these two methods to launch Skinstudio. Made a short video for it.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Of course I got curious now so I fooled with it a little bit.  For what it's worth, the launching functions within WB don't work on any of my Standard logins but do work on my Admin login.  Also, I do have UAC enabled in case it matters.

I don't at all mind launching it directly.   

I did what JanOscar suggested and under individual products, Skin Studio was listed, so thank you JanOscar!

I will watch the video basj uploaded, and hopefully it will help.  Thank you for doing that.   

Just as an aside, I wouldn't mind all the individual programs being listed in a nested dropdown in the Object Desktop program itself.  It would be nice to be able to download individual programs that are adjacent/included with products we subscribe to.  Having to go to a webpage to get a program separately, when you've already installed a program designed to download and install software you're subscribing to should only be a backup method for getting to these programs (at least in my opinion).   Just a suggestion, I have no idea what technical limitations would prevent such a thing from happening; so it's totally understood if it would somehow detract from system performance, or something else.  I have no idea.  I'm just basically thinking out loud.

TI want to stress again, thank you all for your help.  Also, thank you for working towards always improving our products.  I mean that for Stardock employees as well as the user base.  The community as a whole is very active and caring, and I always feel like people care when I ask questions.  

I really wonder why Skinstudio isn't included in the Object Desktop Manager too. It really should be.

Ok, You guys are going to kill me now (LOL).   As I stated, I have relocated my WindowBlinds Skins to another drive.   Sure enough, after installing skin studio, an error occurred.   The installation went fine, I installed it to the default locations.  The problem was when I launched the program.  When I did, I got the following pop-up message:

I went to look for the SkinStudio 8 folder in all the normal places Stardock software normally resides.  I looked in the Program Files (x86) folder, I looked in the user folders, I looked in the local accounts, the roaming accounts just in case; nowhere could I find a SkinStudio 8 folder.   I was going to place it where it needed to be, but I obviously couldn't do that.  I did find a SkinStudio folder, and there were more than one (as one would expect), but under each there were no subfolders named SkinStudio8.

Does anyone happen to know where the SkinStudio8 folder gets installed to on a normal install?

I have it in the skins directory, C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds.

Thank you DaveRI!   I wasn't looking in my WindowBlinds directory.  I was assuming it would be listed within its own Skin Studio directory (of which there are a few directly under a Stardock directory.

In retrospect with my error message saying that it should be in my "skins" directory I might have extrapolated that it would necessarily be in a WIndowBlinds folder.   

It looks like my problems are solved!

Things are always so much clearer after you know the answer.   

Glad you're all set, happy editing.