MikeB314

MikeB314

Joined Last seen Member # 18095
0 Posts 4 Replies 1,699 Reputation
Reply to RIP_2007 Suite in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

The flat files would be in the skin package. I just don't have any of the original Photoshop files anymore, which would be a helpful resource for creating any new parts.

11 Replies 36,465 Views
Reply to RIP_2007 Suite in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I'm pretty sure I made that skin for Stardock and they would need to give permission to update it. It would be fine with me though. Unfortunately, I no longer have any of the files.

11 Replies 36,465 Views
Reply to Whatever happened to that neckbeard Hippy? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Word has finally reached my mountain top retreat high in the Tibetan Himalayas. It takes 7 days by messenger yak. Greetings to all. Long time no skin. I feel ten years younger just seeing all of your names. :) I've heard rumors of a mystical haberdashery on the moon that I plan to visit once my space elevator is complete. I just need 238,856 more miles of yak gut. Furan, I had my Pocket PC cryogenically frozen until the next version of

284 Replies 688,973 Views
Reply to My long overdue departure. in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Snowman" reply="19" id="3320595"]Hippy, voo, MikeB, Chris and more nutt-jobs..... Those were the good/fun IRC days.[/quote] Good times indeed! /me runs back to the other side of the internet.

55 Replies 53,007 Views
Reply to Last Day As A Stardockian and in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Good luck in the next phase of your career, Larry. It has been an honor to work with you over the years. I consider myself fortunate that we not only became friends online, but we actually had the chance to hang out in person. I wish you much success, in every sense of the word. If I can impart any kind of wisdom regarding working from home, it is beware of your fridge. Unlimited access to your entire cache of food can be a dangerous thing. ;)

27 Replies 149,354 Views
Cypress Master Skin for WindowBlinds released in New Releases WinCustomize Forums

I just wanted to let everyone know that I've released a new master skin called Cypress. As always, it includes sub-styles for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. I could go on to describe it further, but as we've all heard, a picture is worth 100 tweets. Here's a little preview... Cypress is av

2 Replies 3,862 Views
Reply to The way forward. in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I think your best bet is to package them as a Theme Manager suite. Then people who have Theme Mananger installed (and all of the necessary individual apps, like WindowBlinds, WMP, etc.) can apply your theme in one click. But also, like WebGizmos said above, a lot of people would prefer to download and apply theme parts separately, without a theme manager. To cater to them, you would need to upload the individual skins to their individual libraries here, or on DeviantArt, or some other site, i

8 Replies 4,965 Views
Reply to Lost my Skin in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I would email Stardock sales or support, or post in the support forum, or hop on IRC and bug somebody. ;) I would think that if you were logged in when you made the purchase, it would still appear in your registrations, regardless of what email address you entered.

13 Replies 9,174 Views
Reply to Broken Startmenu Images? in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

You don't want to keep them out of there permenantly. You just wanted to force WB to generate fresh ones, in case the information in the old ones was out dated or corrupted. If you deleted them, re-applied the skin, and still have the problem, then the issue must be elsewhere.

38 Replies 100,565 Views
Reply to Broken Startmenu Images? in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

That's really weird, WebGizmos. As others have said, my first guess would be video drivers. But, of course, you've already barked up that tree. If it's something in the skin itself, it should happen with every skin I've made in the last few years. I've been making my XP start menus the same way ever since perpixel support was introduced. Perhaps there are some pesky old *.wb4 temp files in the skin folder causing issues somehow? Just a wild guess.

38 Replies 100,565 Views
Reply to New WinCustomize Subscriber Skin: Black Ops in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Kevison, this was made with Vista in mind. It fully supports XP though. z71, I must apologize. I misunderstood which small shell icons you were referring to. I was talking about the small pics inside the shell pane, but you were talking about the small icons on the shell bar. You are correct, I did intend to use a single icon for all of them, but I apparently overlooked the control panel one. Sorry about that. [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

45 Replies 33,692 Views
Reply to New WinCustomize Subscriber Skin: Black Ops in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]One thing tho Mike \ SD.. I have noticed on some of your skins that the large 'spacial' shell images in XP are not showing. This is because you apparently are skinning XP last and the explorer background image in Vista.. is being used in XP.[/quote] vStyler, I was aware of that. I skin the large shell icons in case the user has explorer backgrounds disabled. I personally prefer the explorer background to the shell pics on XP. z71, I dual boot XP solely so I can sk

45 Replies 33,692 Views