How often do you change skins?

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How often do you change skins?
I particularly use Windowblinds and Iconpackager, and change skins anywhere from once to 5 times a week.
Often trying out what peeks my interest here on Wincustomize or Deviantart or somewhere else.
Am I in the minority here that changes it that often?  I am always looking for thet perfect desktop.

Are you really getting your money's worth out of these premium skins/suites?  Especially if you change skins as often as I do?
Has anyone realized that as few as 3 Master skins can cost more than the program itself?
I suppose if you get Object Dekstop and get one premium skin and use it for the entire year Stardock allows us to use the program then it could be worth it.  But who does that? 
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes
Fences - Organize your desktop icons today!
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How often do you change skins?


i started using Beelzebub (by Boxxi) in WB about 8 months ago, and i still use it. I do download a lotta skins, but i rarely use them, although vStyler's SG-1 came close to knocking Beelzebub off my XP Pro install. I think it's just a personalization thing. some of us love it, some don't. whatever works for you is great!  

Are you really getting your money's worth out of these premium skins/suites?


I think so. It's not about the skin itself as it is about rewarding the skinner, who has spent more than enough months putting together a host of skins to upload in order to reach Master level, and spent a fair share of time working in the forums, as well. some are better than others, yea, but the skinners are all terrific! plus, the Master Skins are of higher quality.(not to say the freebies are junk, just that the Master Skins ARE better than most freebies).
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm not sure if I'm looking for the perfect desktop, but I do change Windowblinds much like you do. I think it has to do with how I'm feeling on any particular day.

There are several ways to look at Premium Skins or Master Skins, you know they are two different typs of skin packages. I haven't down loaded any, but I tend to take the position that it's payment for all the free skins that the skinner has or will download to wincustomize.

I'm not a skinner, and really don't want to be one, but one way around your point of cost is to learn how to skin. If you get good enought at it you too can become a Master.   
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
once to 5 times a week.

Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes.
Currently scrounging all the Lonely Rose-related stuff I can find[screeny in mod at the moment]
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll keep the same skin for weeks at a time but I am very pickiy about the skin.  I may go through 20 before I find one I like and that one will be with me for weeks or months.

I've been a member for 1,956 days and have only downloaded 899mb of skins.  

I really need to get busy.   
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Are you really getting your money's worth out of these premium skins/suites?

yep!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Okay Night Train, vStyler and seldomseen are you all at a Starbucks together sipping a latte and haveing fun with us?   
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think they are on something a little stronger than Starbucks.LOL
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
every single day!!! i can't make up my mind! their all so good!
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I change my skins once a week - just like my underwear or taking a shower: whether I need to or not!   

- just kidding.... I change my wb skins once every 2-3 weeks, then I see something that seems like a cool idea for a wb, I start skinning it, if I feel it's worth it after skinning the window frames, taskbar & start panel, I continue using it and finish the wb within a few weeks - that helps me iron out the bugs and test out a skin thoroughly

- before I made my own wb's, I would literally change them once a day, so much good stuff in the gallery that I couldn't just stay with one permanently; that's the great thing about the skin galleries on this site, instant access warddrobes for my pc's 24/7!

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes


So we have some private gated compound within our community!

Two replies the same = chance

Four replies the same = Twlight Zone!

I bet your four went to different High Schools together didn't you!   
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm at an institute of higher learning, with with 6 computer labs (15 to 20 PCs/lab) and literally hundred's of offices each containing at least one computer...I haven't got time to change the skin on my personal computer...but all those others look amazing!
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'am also picky.  I think I have about 2 dozen on my machine and change about once a month at best.  
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wagon Train music please:

Back in the old WB 4.5 days I used StealthOS from MikeB religiously every day for 3 straight YEARS! To me it still is by far the best most purest overall skin in my book anywhere for daily use and couldn't no one tell me any different!

Then WB5 came out, alpha blending, stuff was zooming, 3D graphics, motion, banging colors, Vista like concepts, transparency, aspects and ratio's, HD, DVD RW, Blue Laser not to even mention the 5.1 surround, now all of a sudden I've totally "PIMPED OUT" my once stricly business pc into this bling-bling monster that's the primary engine that runs my home entertainment center!

And my once blank and lifeless screen has transmogrified into, art!

I've been a WC member since 2003 and only stared doing screenies for about five months, so I'm still learning.

My bottom line is, since WB5, my skins might change several times a day now!
  
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I only change my theme if I find a new and cool wb to replace it, or if the wb is too distracting. But I download almost every new windowblind, so yeah I change a lot my dektop.

I've been a member for 1,956 days and have only downloaded 899mb of skins.


Member since: mar 12, 2005. Bytes Downloaded: 2462 mb. I really need to stop downloading every single skin hehe
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Been a member for 10 months now. # of WB's in my collection...would you believe 300+...
no lie....I do have that many. Not all in the themes folder mind you. I keep a separate archive folder for those skins I refuse to let go of. Total downloads...more than a gigabyte and still counting. So far I have an archive for WB's, smx, cursorXp and rainlendar. I did purchase Essorants #2 skinpack, Logika Suite and Universe Metal and they are well worth the price. As soon as the bucks become available there are a few Master skins I plan on purchasing. Besides...I really don't differentiate between Premium and Master skins. To me they're all outstanding works of art...and freebies...lets face it...there are so many freebies that are just as good...Paris WB by Boxxi...neOS and neOSB by danilloOc...Nautical Mile 4 by boopish...Muave Mist by jazzymjr...Muave Boost! Vista by UnckeRob and Sunken Treasure by kittymalone to name just a few.I could go on and on but you get the idea. BTW...once a day.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I usually change maybe twice a month, I tend to use the same theme for a few weeks until I see something (a wallpaper, windowblind) that compels me to change. I haven't changed iconpackager since Alienmorph came out, it seems to go with just about everything. I do change my Avedesk icons when I change the wall and wb so everything has a matching theme of some kind.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is always a work in progress. I rarely use the same exact skin for more than 15 minutes.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top


i started using Beelzebub (by Boxxi) in WB about 8 months ago, and i still use it. I do download a lotta skins, but i rarely use them, although vStyler's SG-1 came close to knocking Beelzebub off my XP Pro install. I think it's just a personalization thing. some of us love it, some don't. whatever works for you is great!


oh my goodness...I'm a freak!
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i change my skin at least daily, but i always seem to come back to the same skin
that skin is m16 dark glass, i really love that skin.

so far i have over 400 skins in my collection anc check each and every day for new ones
keep em coming