I have a tremendous amount of respect for the skinning community. I love windowblinds, iconpackager,objectdock,(LOVE THE WEATHER DOCK) and logonstudio. the rest of the apps, especially DX, seem interesting, but not really my thing. no, this is not a "OMG i looove you guys!" post. it's actually a (slightly) negative one.

i recently got rid of my gaming rig,and purchased a solid, business-class notebook. i love it, because all of my computer time is devoted to web-based activity, and i appreciate the fact that it does it's job. needless to say, it's not on par with the gaming rig it's replacing, (mighta dropped a core, half my ram, and 9/10 of my hard drive space, but it's still a very solid machine), but it does what it has to. I moved my skins over, and they ran just fine, no issues.i just did a reinstall, to upgrade to XP MCE, and upon hours of hard thinking, i decided not to skin my new install. I still have everything backed up, but i find that i sort of like the Energy Blue Luna theme that XP came with. i know, Luna can be really boring, and has nothing on some of my fave skins, but it does it's job. Just like the laptop.

Soooo, my question to you is...can you think of a time when you realized that maybe skinning wasnt necessary?

I believe that on some machines, heck, id say most machines, skinning adds a whole dimension to your PC. but im wondering if anyone else has had my situation happen to them.