Personalize your Windows start screen with Decor8! BETA Available Now.

Published on November 8, 2012 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

Windows 8 limits your start screen customization options to only 10 provided background images and a few pre-defined color schemes. Decor8 removes these limitations and provides the freedom to personalize your start screen with your own images and colors.

FEATURES

Personalize the Windows 8 Start screen with background images and colors
Dozens of additional backgrounds included
Use your own personal photos and images
Randomize the background images at timed intervals for a unique look
Customize the start screen color scheme
Control the number of rows of tiles available on the start screen

HOW TO GET IT

The Decor8 Beta is available as a free 30-day trial and can be purchased for only $4.99.

Purchase Decor8 today to get access to the Beta now and receive a free update to the final version when it releases this Fall. https://www.stardock.com/products/decor8/

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows 8

Comments (Page 2)

Budaii

on Nov 09, 2012

I do not like Windows 8. Therefore, I would prefer if Stardock would focus less on Windows 8 than on fixing bugs in WindowBlinds, IconPackager and so on for Windows 7.

Skarny

on Nov 09, 2012

I do not like Windows 8. Therefore, I would prefer if Stardock focus more on making it better. Nah, I know where you are coming from vwaldbrun, Stardock will have their work cut out for them as W7 is probably going to persist as long, if not longer than XP did when Vista and 7 came along.

Uvah

on Nov 09, 2012

You guys are making it vey hard for me. You know that! I'm gonna start saving up my pennies for the 40 dollar upgrade. *Sniffles*.

Neil Banfield

on Nov 09, 2012

vwaldbrunn

reply 16

I do not like Windows 8. Therefore, I would prefer if Stardock would focus less on Windows 8 than on fixing bugs in WindowBlinds, IconPackager and so on for Windows 7.

Worry not, WindowBlinds and Deskscapes are on our list for updates too and you can expect Windows 7 users to gain things with the new versions.

RedneckDude

on Nov 09, 2012

captainmoonlight

reply 14

thanks star dock windows 8 plus hardwood wallReduced 46%Original 1280 x 800

Nice wood!!! hehe

petrossa

on Nov 09, 2012

Incredible. I believe i entered another world where bad taste reigns. No disrespect for the application itself, but seriously, that is what is called 'beautiful' nowadays?

Garish colored blocks that clash with anything known to man on a hardly visible background.....

benmanns

on Nov 09, 2012

may i know why Camera Music Video and Games apps are not colorable...ty in advance

Neil Banfield

on Nov 09, 2012

Roloccolor

reply 22

may i know why Camera Music Video and Games apps are not colorable...ty in advance

They are Modern UI applications and have their own tiles with predefined colours.

The tile colour option in Decor8 relates to tiles for non Modern UI applications.

benmanns

on Nov 09, 2012

Thanks for the quick answer Neil i hope there is a workaround for this in the near future

Neil Banfield

on Nov 09, 2012

Skarny

reply 15

Could Stardock change the ration by which the background moves relative to the scroll? e.g. we could have 1:1 scrolling, put a nice glass 'shelf' background image behind the tiles and sliding them would slide the background making it feel like the whole thing is sliding at once?

This is something we added earlier today in fact for the next update.

Leo the Lion

on Nov 10, 2012

Nice job, Brad and Neil.........You are even getting good feedback over at Neowin..........That takes some doing against a tough crowd over there!

Skarny

on Nov 10, 2012

Now put Dreams in the background instead of wallpaper

RedneckDude

on Nov 10, 2012

Maybe totally unrelated, but I notice that since installing this, I have a few blank tiles.

Neil Banfield

on Nov 10, 2012

RedneckDude

reply 28

Maybe totally unrelated, but I notice that since installing this, I have a few blank tiles.

That will be unrelated to this.

karmat

on Nov 11, 2012

I haven't made the move to Windows 8 yet, but with this program and Start8, I'm seriously thinking of putting it on my touchscreen at least. It wasn't going to be an option until I knew Stardock was going to be able to develop probrams for W8.

Being a heavy Rainmeter user, I had the look of W8 on my desktop with the Omnimo suite http://omnimo.info/ two years ago, so for me, W8 didn't look like anything new to me!

Thanks Stardock!

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