The Winstep Start Menu Organizer is a FREE application designed to help you organize and clean your Windows Start Menu. Over time, as more and more applications get installed, the Start Menu can get so cluttered that you end up spending a lot of time simply trying to find the program you want to run. This is where the Winstep Start Menu Organizer comes in: it allows you to quickly group your Start Menu shortcuts into a specific set of categories (e.g. Utilities, Internet, Office, etc...) t...

We have such good stuff coming in on Fridays, it’s almost hard to keep up.  But hey, you have plenty of reading for the weekend, right?  Well since it is Friday, Zoomba has crawled out from his secret lair to give us the weekly Impulse updates.  The big news this week is the impending release of THQ titles on Impulse, and we also have some teaser screenshots of game rankings and achievements through Impulse.  

What a long week it has been.  The final preparations are in for the GUI Champs ‘08, and we are set to begin in just a few days.  Halloween inspired skins are starting to make a big appearance, and skins in general are rolling in strong. I think the rest of the year is going to be superb! Anyways, it is Friday and this weeks edition of This Week in Skinning is up!

Have you been to Impulsedriven.com in awhile? Well if you have, you'll notice that we've done some redecorating to not only the website but the store itself. We've made the website much more informational with the homepage now adding a featured title section highlighting a major software or game, a latest news section showing off recent releases, and a recent articles section authored by people from the Impulse community. You'll also find the navigation t...

We always like to show some love to the other skinning communities out there, and we wanted to say Happy Birthday to WinModify.com .  WinModify has been around for 5 years, and many of our WinCustomize members, including myself, upload their works there as well.  WinModify also helps us by promoting news and things of that sort for us, so I wanted to take a moment to thank them for their contribution to the community. From WinModify: “To celebrate this, we've opened up 2 sec...

The new month means it’s time for a new edition of This Month in Dreams.  September saw a great amount of submissions to the .dream category, and it was very difficult to pick out the featured picks. I’m sure we are going to see some really phenomenal .dreams submitted to the GUI Champs, and I also bet we will se some really cool Halloween .dreams coming. Check out This Month in Dreams .

As some of you might know, every month our dedicated moderators put together a list of their favorite skins from that month.  It’s always interesting to see what are the favorite skins of the people who are “behind the scenes”.  We have some really great picks this month, so here we go! Bebi Bulma picks Wraith by SKoriginals “There aren't that many black blinds out there, and even then they're difficult to get done right. This one is very usable and has that "sinister" ...

Halloween is approaching, so I wanted to start featuring some Halloween inspired skins to help you get your “spooky” desktop going. There are a great amount of Halloween skins in the various galleries, but I thought I would start off with cursor themes for today.  To use these themes, you will need to download CursorFX, which is the best way to change the Windows cursors.

The latest Master WindowBlinds skin comes from essorant, this one called Criterion.  I was running this skin over the weekend, and it’s just fantastic.  The skin is smooth, and the transparency is just about perfect.  You won’t be disappointed in this one. Don’t forget, if you are a WinCustomize Subscriber you get 20% off master skins. 

If you didn’t get a chance to visit the site over the weekend, I got your covered.  Here are some of the featured skin picks for WinCustomize for the past weekend.

We have been talking about the Marathon Icon Pack which the proceeds are going to help The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  Today, Mormegil has released a free sample pack of one of the 29 included sets in the full Icon Package . They are a fantastic set of icons, and it’s also going to a great cause. 

I don’t have to tell you anymore what Friday means, no it’s not about the weekend, it’s about the latest edition of This Week in Skinning.  This week we have several wallpapers, a slick WindowBlinds skin, and some DesktopX created goodies. Check it out!

Stardock is excited to release LogonStudio 1.5.  LogonStudio is an application that allows you to easily change the Windows logon screen in Windows Vista.  There are thousands of logons available for download from WinCustomize.com , and creating your own logon is as easy as dragging and dropping an image into LogonStudio. This update includes: Right-click context menu on logons  Easily set current wallpaper as a logon Various bug fixes More info and a free download ...

The WinCustomize moderators spent a grueling weekend together fighting it out over who had the best skin picks for the month, but after a few slices of pizza and margaritas, we all worked it out and came up with Aprils list.  These are the favorite skins picked by the WinCustomize moderators themselves! WOM picks Loneliness Forest V by hmn1 ”Futuristic look.  Lights up the screen.” Zubaz picks Covert Ops (TM Suite) by Philly0381 ”Covert Ops Theme Manag...

My favorite community feature is back once again to give us a heads up on what’s going on related to DesktopX in April.  ‘I Love DesktopX’ is a feature brought to you by sViz, and as usual, contains a wealth of information about all things DesktopX related. Link  – I Love DesktopX: April 2009