I've been informed by MikeB, that he demoted me for my Comic skins and my Aerosmith skin. It seems that my skins are threatening him in some(profitable) way, I gather, and I was told that this is the general admin opinion. I'm just interested in knowing if this is so.

I understand that Xav's comic skins were removed because of Marvel's complaints about them. It seems that fan art is squashed when there is a profit seen in the horizon. I personally thought they were great free publicity, and helped sales, not hurt them.

I understand that it might make a few people very happy to see me go. I guess if you speak your mind, you rile some people here(Sorry). I would like to thank a few of the people who helped me along the way and whose work inspired me greatly and whose kindness, I will always treasure. Namely, Adni18, Starone, and Diafragma. And, all others who helped me learn to skin along the way, thank you.

I don't want my work to get in the way of profit. I just thought I'd post here and try to get a general concensus from the admins before I delete my library and bugger off. I won't respond to flames and insults, so please don't bother. Although, I know some will, just for the fun of it.
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At the bottom of the screen there is now a tracker icon. Is Wincustomize now using tracking cookies to see where I go after I leave here or maybe even which programs I am running on my computer?

There are about 25 useless comments from one person, cursing and abusing The Skins Factory at their Alienware Teleport skin here.https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=9&SkinID=430

Why don't we just ban these guys. Please, this is ridiculous. No skinner should have to take such abuse either.

Is there a way to remove the GUI Entries in ones personal library? Since the GUI is over and the site closed, they are just sitting there with no function or usage.

I'm designing a new skin. But, this program is so buggy.

1)I've created a compact start menu subskin and it keeps changing the regular start menu to the compact version. The images that I replaced don't stay replaced. They seem to revert.

2)The tray notify arrow for the subskin vertical taskbar won't display. It displays for the horizontal taskbar in the subskin and both in the main skin.

3)When I animate the right side of the start menu(places section) the button on that side disappears. It turns the flat background color. If I just turn the animation rate to zero, meaning no animation, the button reappears. But, I have no animation.

I think this problem with 1) and maybe 2) are related to an old UIS problem. For some reason the proper UIS files are not being created.
Has anyone else encountered these problems? And if so, how did you resolve them?

Is there an offical place to submit program bugs so that they can be addressed in future versions of Windowblinds or Skin Studio? Or at least a place where bugs can be offically acknowledged? How about an ongoing offical bug list and at what version the bugs were fixed?

I keep seeing bug threads,created by the skinners here,but what good are they in resolving the issues? Who decides what bugs will be addressed and what are actually program bugs?

I doubt if the Windowblind and Skin Studio program developers are actually constantly looking for bugs. So, where do they get their information? Thanks.

Antares animated the right and left panels of the start menu, and the button over graphic still works. I tried animating the right side and the button disappears. It turns the flat background color. The button works on the non-animated left side. Is there another section that makes the button work again? Thanks, I'm stumped.

Treetog, if you see this, please explain. Thanks.

Last night I was asked to help a lady with her computer. She couldn't connect to the net. I went over and she had 100 pieces of spyware on her computer, mostly exe files, not temporary internet files. When I finally was able to connect to the net, the spyware blocked the download of Spybot and shut down the net again. In fact, the whole system crashed. It was a big battle. Finally, I got Spybot installed and the major culprit was Gain.Gator. It had over 30 files on this ladies computer. It seems her daughter likes the free software accessories. The accessory contained three files only. The other 27 were spyware. Free? Yeah, right.

Now, the ladies computer is running like a charm.

Just call me the Exorcist.

Does anyone know how to change the color of the small sub menu arrows in the menu's or start menu? Mine is always black. Thanks.

I'm just curious if it is possible to make inactive windows transparent by default with windowblinds. I've seen a transparency plugin in effect on a windowblind. But, is it possible to work this way? Thanks.

There are many more people who will find out about this great program if it were offered in the computer retail stores. I think it would be a superb hit.