Tells you a lot about the quality of those writing the articals in MPC doesn't it...

i've never thought of Maximum PC to be much of a source for intelligent, reliable info regarding computers, to be honest.

Yeah. Stardock should launch its products into store like Staples and Wal- Mart where lots of people in the U.S go. I found PC World to be the best PC Magazines, and it's taught me alot. It's a must for me, and even more for you XP Users!!!

Stardock has a full time media relations team. How Maximum PC managed to not know about WindowBlinds is beyond me.

Let's keep things in perspective. At the same time this Maximum PC article came out...

This week's eWeek mentioned/recommended WindowBlinds to its readers.

Australia PC World reviewed WindowBlinds.

So it's not that we're obscure or something.

 

I heard 1st mention of Window Blinds years ago, it may have been early 90's or so.

Never had much interest in this until I stumbled back onto it a month or 2 ago. I 1st did a free trial of StyleXP and after my XP machine crashing about 2 dozen times, I s**t canned it and proceeded directly to purchase of WindowBlinds and then ( ) full Object Desktop upgrade ( $5 penalty )a week later.

Dang machine hasn't crashed once and noone fooled with my system files.

That's 10 times better to me (not to mention worth paying for) !
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Heck, I tried many other Desktop skinning programs. Those 3D world programs looked interesting, Alt Desk seemed interesting, but it kept crashing my system. I even put Style XP on my system for about 2 minutes(I'm serious, I don't believe it was more). I immediately took it off and I thought "there has to be better than that". Then, I stumbled on windowblinds. I liked the lady masters at first. "The Knight" skin by Starone and "XP Corona" by Alexandrie are my classic favorites. But, I was a Win98SE loyal user and I frowned at anything WinXP. I thought something must be wrong with a system that can't run all my old games(Not that I even play the old ones anymore). In comparison, I must say that windowblinds/Object Desktop looked sh**ty on Win98SE. My taskbar buttons got compressed terribly on my desktop in most skins with Object Bar. Skin Studio crashed constantly with it. DesktopX was absolutely unrunnable if I wanted any memory at all.(I later learned it was Win98 that handled memory badly, not DesktopX). Sysmetrix was interesting but some information in it didn't make sense to me. Logons were out of the question with Win98. Still, I could see that Windowblinds was much better than StyleXP, and I stuck with it.

But, I just had to try CursorXP with all its great skins. So, I got WinXP and WOW oh, WOW! Still, I had to keep my Win98SE until I was sure that WinXP was all it seemed to be. So, I created a separate partition for it, just to be safe. It's been months since I've even booted my Win98 partition(I'm actually dreading it, since I got a new graphics card and didn't take the old drivers off it). And all the things that troubled WB/OD in Win98 are gone. Hooray!!! In fact, everything that troubled Win98 is gone. No more Blue screens of death. All I can say to you stanch Win98SE users is, "Come into the light!" WinXP is a whole new world!

ChasUGC recalled all of my Object Desktop problems! I will get XP once I have the money!$$$$$$$$$$$$

jebland, that could be. I work at a commercial printer where we do mostly magazines. The last two or three years have been a free-for-all of major publishers buying each other out. That has caused a lot of duplicate titles, resulting in titles being combined or cancelled, with the extra staff personnel being let go. The publisher is Future Networks USA. I'm not familiar with them. Their website [www.futurenetworksusa.com] gets only a blank page. If any one wants to voice their opinion to the editorial staff their Email is: input@maximumpc.com I still haven't heard anything back on the Email I sent them earlier. I've been off work for two days with a killer head-cold so maybe I'm getting a little grouchy about all this [my kids are finding plenty of things to do away from me, maybe that's a hint!] Anyway, if they want to drive a Yugo instead of a Ferrari that's their business. This place is still the best of it's kind by far.

I was in Barnes & Nobel the other day and was looking at a magazine called "PC Utilities". It is printed in England. There was a small article on Window Blinds on page 16. The article was titled "The Essential XP Toolkit".

I found wincustomize doing a Google image search for Windows Xp!

Maybe Stardock should try to get their link on Micrsoft.com

I originally found Stardock & WinCustomize after searching for a way to rid my desktop of those annoying little arrows on my icons. Dell & Microsoft couldn't or wouldn't tell me, so I did some searching and came across TweakXP.com (another great site by the way!). And it was from there that I found a link to WindowBlinds. Just yesterday I came across the MaximumPC magazine and saw the same article about stylexp. After reading it I also wrote to the editor asking him how he could do such a thing as give out bad info like that and pointed out to him that stylexp is nothing more than a hack. I then started the praises of Stardock & WinCustomize and gave him a link to both sites so he could see for himself.