Kona, as a polite suggestion, when the CEO of the company that owns a site says something to you, you may want to take it to heart. 

What he is saying is a fact of business.  If we have to pay for extra bandwidth to support a program that will not induce extra sales, how does that benefit the site?  Having more people who don't contribute to the site does no good. All it does is cost more and doesn't allow us to give more benefits to the people who contribute.

And, I really take offense to you saying that a skin that you submit would be rejected just because of your name.  I don't even look at names unless there is something "wrong" with the submission.  If you think that the admins of this site are that nasty, then I think that you need to find another site to hang out at.  We treat each submission with the same guidelines and could care less who submitted it.  If it is good, it gets accepted.  If it is bad or pirated, it gets rejected.  It's as simple as that.

joetheblow - Samurize?? what is that?!?? Never heard of it until just now.my question exactlyi supose that since i have never heard of it i shouldnt vote for it. so, off to think of something else that sounds nice

joe/feline:
Check here: http://www.samurize.com/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=3#q14

KarmaGirl and Frogboy: all point taken and thank you.

I will subscibe to help out SOON. Maybe I was wrong about Rainlander.

of course i voted Rainlendar, but with now 484 votes (very fiew in fact !!!), Windows XP boot screens, IE/Toolbar icon sets, Trillian and Rainlendar seem to get almost the same votes ... doesn't it mean that Sardock should think of adding more than one new section ???

 They look like they are about the same, but out of the top three, one has about 20% more votes.  (Rainlender is in third position, btw, at this point.)  There really hasn't been many people voting at all.  The "what's your favorite season?" poll had more voters than this one.  492 votes (which is where it currently is) is less than 1/1000th of the registered users.  Actually, it might be less than that because I lost track of registered users awhile ago   I know that we get about 2 million uniques, but I would need Frogboy to clarify the number of registered users.  I was hoping that there would be more votes by now

There are about 700,000 registered users of WinCustomize.

We'll need at least 1,000 respondants before we can draw any conclusions.

We are working on a possible legal way of doing boot screens btw. One that would not involve replacing the kernal or patching it or some other evil stuff (yes, even programs like BootXP ultimately patch the kernel which makes very bad things likely in the future).

We've already talked to Microsoft about it. They're okay with it as long as the program isn't modifying the system kernel. Presently, there are zero programs that apply boot screens that don't mess with the kernel. So we're going to see if it's possible to do it without mucking around with replacing it.  If it is possible, then we could do boot screens that have lots of colors and higher resolution.

Wow, Brad that's so cool that SD is looking to see if there's a possible alternative method of changing the bootscreen without replacing the kernal!

Bootscreens for me aren't a big deal since it's just a few seconds on the screen, but I'd be more inclined to consider changing them if SD had an app that I regarded as safer than the existing methods (either manual or the other proggies). Also with the current bootscreen programs and the bootscreen libraries, from a PC security standpoint I'd not be that keen on downloading someone else's unknown .exe files. Although of course one could make one's own but that would still involve messing with the MS file.

Leave it to SD to see if there's a way that avoids the concerns and issues previously discussed. Even if the results turn out to be not quite what some would hope for, kudos for pursuing the possibilities.

KG: I find it interesting if not a bit frustrating that more people responded to the favorite season poll than the new library poll to date. Given the numbers of requests and threads over time about new libraries and wish lists one would have thought that people would jump on the opportunity to provide input when asked.

BTW, if we do a bootscreen program it would be released as a freeware program.

Newest UserID number I have come across is around 720,000....

Wow...

I wonder what the avg. monthly 'income' of new users is...

Whoa! I'm #89

And im 585,286

Jafos got you beat China...#23

#89 China?! Geez you dont LOOK that old ,hehe.(Not like Jafo old) /me wonders...those gray hairs in my beard dont make me look old...do they?
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China has a beard??? This I gotta see...

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Ah! You have a hairy big toe....

China looks pretty darn good for 89.....[but if I'm 23 I better call her 'granny']...

I voted for "something else". I think DX (once more people start using it) has more potential than rainlender.
Having read most of the posts here, I would now vote for IE /Explorer toolbar icon sets.


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Sorry Kona, i edited it... (but it still tickled my funny bone)

That's the problem with this message editing feature Shame on you...China

Boot Screens??? People really want to customize thier boot screen (Must voted for at this point and high in general)

I am not saying I like seeing Microsoft's but I have nothing against it. Plus, it is the OS I am using so no big deal.

Now if I was a Lunix user... Maybe Litestep (replaces Eplorer shell)...

Just never really thought of it as popular.