The holiday season is here!  Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, or just like to give your desktop a winter inspired look, I wanted to give some tips on how to achieve a festive look.  There are thousands and thousands of skins and themes available here on WinCustomize, and the holiday season is one that has a lot of skins available.  Whether you want just a festive wallpaper, or a complete theme for your desktop, we have it covered. Holiday WindowBlinds Skins ...

Since we’re spending this month celebrating 15 years of skinning WindowBlinds , I wanted to find out what was the most popular download on WinCustomize.com.  From the best I can tell and confirm, Vista Plus Version 3 comes in with over 900,000 downloads since it was released in 2006. Vista Plus Version 3 by adni18 It’s a little funny a Vista skin has been one of the most downloaded, but as some of you might remember the glassy look was really popular and many skinners created a...

CursorFX allows you to apply custom cursor themes to your Windows PC. Users can easily apply skins, shadows, motion trails and sounds to your cursors. CursorFX comes complete with several unique cursors installed, but you can also create your own to use and share with others in the WinCustomize community. We'll show you how in this tutorial. Get CursorFX here Creating the graphics I'm going to show you how to create and put together the actual cursor, but something you ha...

This is a detailed tutorial for SkinStudio which shows you step-by-step with images on how to create a WindowBlinds skin.  It was created by Master Skinner Vampothika and we give her a big thanks for helping out the community with this.  Also, another big thanks to gmc2 for getting the resources for this so we could share it with the community. There’s a lot of images with this tutorial, and it’s broken up into 3 directories.  I wanted to make it easy to view,...

Since we don't have a wiki any longer, I wanted to at least have a place where tutorials and guides can be listed for easy reference. More will be added.   Object Desktop Object Desktop: The Benefits of Membership Reminder: Backup Your Object Desktop Apps! Using Object Desktop Manager   Stardock  Store   Gift Purchasing from the Stardock Store   Stardock Store: Downloading Your Purchases Managing your Stardoc...

This is just a real quick video demo showing WindowFX 5.1 running on Windows 8.  Nothing new if you are familiar with Windows 8, the same fun animations and effects are just now available on Win8. http://www.screencast.com/t/MRuDLHjFf  

Every so often I like to focus on the new users of WindowBlinds, as although it’s very easy to use, there are some things that a new person skinning their desktop could miss.  Some people just apply skins and go no further, and while that’s perfectly fine, WindowBlinds can let take things a bit further to enhance that experience even more. Lets take a look at 5 of my favorite tips for new users. Get WindowBlinds – www.windowblinds.net 1. Make Finding Install...

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Skinning!  It’s nice to see that people aren’t slowing down much summer in regards to skinning.  Typically, summer is a slow time for skinning but that doesn’t seem to be the case as the uploads keep rolling in.  Hopefully we’ll have some more GUI Champs 2012 news coming up soon as we are hard at work behind the scenes getting things ready.  Follow @stardock   Now for this weeks picks! ...

Hey folks!  Welcome to another edition of This Week in Skinning where we show off some of the coolest desktop skins and themes from the past week.  Lots of good stuff this week so lets get to it! Now for this weeks picks!     Andromeda by theAVMAN This is a really slick and detailed cursor theme for CursorFX .  Just download it and see.   Fantasy by DolphinDoc A new desktop theme for DesktopX which a clean ...

I think I can safely say ObjectDock Plus is the app I have the most interaction with on the desktop.  I say that because it’s how I launch most of the applications I use during a given day.  I have some in the Windows 7 taskbar, but those are mostly browser and e-mail apps.  Everything else is stuffed into tabs in ObjectDock which I organize by category. For example, I have tabs for the games I play and another for my Adobe apps.  Along with several others tabs. ...

Hello everyone!  April is moving fast and we’ve had a bunch of great skins come in – including some fabulous Master skins.  We have also had some app updates recently too, including WindowBlinds 7.4 and the release of Acoustic Bridge 1.0 . Now for this weeks picks!     EurekaFX by RedneckDude This is a CursorFX theme which is part of a bigger package of other great skin.  Check them out here .   Tr...

This is aimed at beginners and new people to WindowBlinds, although maybe even some experienced users might benefit from these tips.  Anyone who uses WindowBlinds knows how easy it is to change the look of Windows, but WindowBlinds has some cool features that maybe you didn’t know about. Get WindowBlinds here – www.windowblinds.net 1. Manage Wallpapers WindowBlinds can also help manage your wallpapers and even be set to change wallpapers based on a variety of interval...

We are getting ready to close out another month and not a better way to finish it off than with a new edition of This Week in Skinning.  It’s been a pretty good week for skinning as we had several Master skins released along with a bunch of other skins in the galleries.  Now for this weeks picks!     Alice the Madness Returns by Vampothika I don’t need to go into much detail here.  Beautiful design as always. &nb...

We are halfway through the month of March and we end the week as usual with a new edition of This Week in Skinning.  If you missed some of the news this week, we released Beta 2 for WindowFX 5 which include improvements to the UI and new options to check out. Now for this weeks picks!     Wand Magie by Casperrr This is a unique CursorFX theme with some fun animations.   Parisienne by BoXXi There’s lots to like...

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Skinning!  Lots of talk this week going on about Windows 8, and if you have downloaded the consumer preview, then be sure to check out our newest app, Start8 . Now for this weeks picks!     Oan by CountryYokel This is a matching CursorFX theme for his WindowBlinds skin, both with a cool design.   Black Diamond by AceMatrix This is a fantastic set of icons for IconPackag...