Req advice: living in two worlds??

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So... I recently bought a new laptop, when my old one died.  The new machine is Windows 11... however, I still have my Windows 10 desktop machine, which I do *not* plan on upgrading until I absolutely have to...

So I have a dilemma... I would like to upgrade to WB11 to run on my laptop, but continue to use WB10 on my desktop...
If it was only a matter of cost, I would have no problem with just buying a second copy of WB for the desktop... but the problem with that is that I have a *lot* of skins that I've purchased on WB10, and I wouldn't be able to use them on the new copy...

So do I have any options here??  Is there a way that I can purchase a second copy of WB under my existing user account, and keep the skins licensed on both of them?

 

windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you purchased a Windowblinds skin Derell, you can legally use it on multiple computers. Skins designed for Windows 10 though may have some minor issues on Windows 11. :-)

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

hmmm... So should I just purchase a new copy of WB11 from this same account??

And yes, I realize that the older skins may not work with WB11; that's why I wish to stick with WB10 on my WB10 system...
But I *am* interested to see what will or will not work on Windows 11!!

 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Derell, reply 2

hmmm... So should I just purchase a new copy of WB11 from this same account??

And yes, I realize that the older skins may not work with WB11; that's why I wish to stick with WB10 on my WB10 system...
But I *am* interested to see what will or will not work on Windows 11!!

 
End of Derell's quote

 

Only issues you will encounter using a wb10 theme on win11 are the file explorer tabbed ui might be hard to read depending on how the theme designed the titlebars. Might make it hard to read the tabbed text. The other 2 things are the start button is limited to 55x55. Anything bigger than that will be cut off. Last thing is win10/11 modes for start 11 won't have a theme unless the themes added support for them. Other than that they should work fine.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

What you can do is, upgrade to WB11 with a discount, since you already own WB10. Know that, your WB10 key still work for WB10. And you will get new WB11 key for WB11. Also, from what I  know, WB10 designed skin should work with WB11 without any major issue. You can do a free trial WB11 just to be sure on that.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting basj, reply 4

What you can do is, upgrade to WB11 with a discount, since you already own WB10. Know that, your WB10 key still work for WB10. And you will get new WB11 key for WB11. Also, from what I  know, WB10 designed skin should work with WB11 without any major issue. You can do a free trial WB11 just to be sure on that.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant
End of basj's quote

Hi Basj!!  So you can confirm that if I upgrade to WB11, I'll still be able to run WB10 on my desktop??  I was hoping that would be the case!!  That would be perfect...  Thank you!!

Hokay, it's done... WB11 is running on my Win11 machine... no problems so far!!
Some details of dialog boxes, are drawing a little differently than they did in the past, but nothing unbearable...

This is almost embarrassing to admit, but I'm not really seeing anything really intolerable about Win11 so far... Things are a little different, but most things that I really care about, I can find ways to deal with... sadly, though, they are already working on Windows 12... I don't understand why they can't just stick with something that is working (such as Windows 7)... :(

Dan

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I can confirm from what I know, and looking from my product download page, I still can see my older purchased keys and download link.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant