Can you believe we are already in November? Has the cooler weather hit your area yet? We had lots going on in October here on WinCustomize as Halloween is always a popular month.  Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed! Stardock News: Groupy v1.44 is Now Available Featured changes: Groupy crashes if turned off quickly after being turned on Windows with a blank caption now paints the close tab button correctly I...

In 2015 I wrote a blog post here showing my PC build that I was working on. I've had that PC ever since and it's been one of the best PC build I've ever done. It would run many of the latest games at ultra settings, and has been a great PC to edit videos and just do general work with.  I've added a couple small upgrades such as doubling the RAM to 16GB, adding another SSD drive for games, and replacing smaller hard drives for bigger storage.  Lately though, games are runnin...

Over the past month we've featured many Halloween themed skins of all types, and even focused a bit more on animated wallpapers for DeskScapes and cursor themes for CursorFX. Halloween is less than a week away, so we'll finish off our Halloween postings this month with a look at our favorite WindowBlinds skins! Bat O Ween Bad Jack Halloween BoO

Do you skin on Turkey day? Get it.... Turkeys....skins......oh never mind. As we have discussed before, Halloween and Christmas are the two biggest skinning holidays of the year, but we do have one more between that, and that would be Thanksgiving. It hasn't been a big skinning holiday and there's only about two pages worth of uploads.  My question is though, is it something you skin your desktop for? Just wondering if we should be looking out for more or just focusing on the next big...

We're getting closer to Halloween and we've been featuring many of the fantastic Halloween skins we have here on WinCustomize. I was browsing through the CursorFX gallery this morning and noticed another Halloween themed cursor, so I thought CursorFX would be fun to spotlight this week.  Use CursorFX to easily change your Windows mouse cursor to one of thousands available on WinCustomize! Toxic Halloween   Black Widow Halloween   Pumpki...

DeskScapes is a great way to manage your wallpapers, whether they are animated or static wallpapers. If you are not familiar with DeskScapes, it allows you to have animated wallpapers on your Windows desktop, and even lets you apply effects to those wallpapers for even more customization. One of the questions I get asked the most about DeskScapes is how you can have wallpapers change randomly. It’s a cool feature but it seems not everyone is aware how to enable it, so I wanted to foc...

Let's all give a big congrats to our newest Journeyman.... BONEHEADdb ! BONEHEAD has been a member of WinCustomize since 2004 and has shared many skins with the community including tons of great CursorFX themes.  With his recent return to skinning we thought of no better time than now to recognize his contributions. Congrats from all of us at WinCustomize!

We're getting closer to Halloween and I've been digging through WinCustomize looking for some of the best animated wallpapers for DeskScapes . There are a bunch to choose from, and you have a favorite be sure to post it the comments below! Don't forget we have our October desktop screenshot thread ready, so let's see those Halloween desktops! Spooky Halloween Forest with Bats   Halloween Scenery   4K Smoky Skull   Pumpki...

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...

If you want to change the default Windows cursor to something way cooler, then we're going to show you how using Stardock's CursorFX ! What is CursorFX? 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 so you can get started right away. Get CursorFX here Changing Your Cursor Theme Once you purchase CursorFX, yo...

We have finally hit Fall and now we start our way through the holiday season! First up, we have Halloween coming up and we've been busy getting some Halloween wallpapers and other spooky themes up. We're also featuring a ton of Halloween skins this month so be sure to check the daily feature. Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed! Stardock News: Curtains v1.1 is Now Available "The newest version of Curtains adds a majo...

This week's question we'll focus on something that doesn't get talked about as much.......and that would be icons. We have a couple of different categories for icons here on WinCustomize. Icon packs for use with IconPackager Icon category for general icon uploads. ObjectDock icons for icons that are meant to be used with OD. We have been curious on how the community uses icons in their desktop setups. Do you change the entire icon set with IconPackager, or do you just cha...

We are rapidly approaching October, and that means it's getting closer to Halloween! I recently asked the WinCustomize community about skinning holidays and Halloween came up as one of the top answers. We've always had great contributions from skinners with Halloween themes, so it's no surprise people enjoy these.  Since we're just over a month out, I thought it's a wonderful time to start featuring more Halloween skins, and we've been working to get more Halloween themed wallpapers a...

This week's community question is focusing on desktop skinning, WindowBlinds in particular! There are so many WindowBlinds skins available and I probably couldn't describe all the styles and colors available.  I personally like more of a minimal style skin, but more "wild" skins have also been popular. If you have no preference that's certainly great, but I wanted to put out the question to our community.  Do you prefer more minimal type skins, more "wild" designs, or does it...

Fall official starts tomorrow! Hopefully, this means some cooler weather will be headed our way. Although we don't the seasonal color changing down here, I'd love to see some pics from our community who do get to see it. Otherwise, some of us must be happy with just seeing seasonal colors on the desktop, and that's what todays post is about. Here's some static and animated wallpapers for the new season! Pumpkin Patch   Yellow Fall Leaves   Autumn ...