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Published on October 5, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Fresh from the grave, Stardock delivers Halloween straight to your desktop. Our macabre desktop is packed full of ghoulish icons, unearthly visual styles, wicked gadgets and a haunted wallpaper sure to send shivers through your bones. This desktop screams Halloween and is our treat to you with the purchase of any Premium Suite. This ghastly deal ends on October 31.

If you're a WinCustomize Subscriber, you get this update completely free!  Just head on over to the Subscriber Resources section to download the suite.

So you're not a WinCustomize subscriber yet and you want the new R.I.P suite?  You have two choices, you can either purchase a subscription to WinCustomize, or you can buy any of our Premium Suites before October 31st.  Your choice.

     

This suite has been updated to take advantage of WindowBlinds 6 and Windows Vista features.

What's New: 

  • Animated Start Menu in Vista & XP
  • Vista Compatability
  • Vista-ready Icons
  • New Weather Gadget
  • New Wallpaper

What's In the Suite?

  • WB6 Animated skin for Vista & XP
  • Icon Package for Vista & XP
  • Wallpaper in 3 Resolutions
  • Clock Gadget
  • Calendar Gadget
  • Weather Gadget
 

Enjoy the super-spooky suite from Stardock Design!

Additionally, if you are a Windows Vista Ultimate user, we're releasing an Animated Wallpaper designed to go with R.I.P completely free.  You don't need to buy anything, but it sure will look good running along side the R.I.P Suite.  Grab the Dream HERE*.

*Requires Windows DreamScene and Stardock DeskScapes to be installed

IMPORTANT: You will need to upgrade to the latest version of Theme Manager from Stardock Central.  If you do not, the suite will not apply properly.  DO THIS FIRST.

Screenshots

   
Windows XP  Windows Vista Desktop Gadgets 
     
  Apogee Halloween Icons  

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on Oct 06, 2007
Thanks for a great suite!! Halloween is my birthday!  
on Oct 06, 2007
Outstanding! You guys have really stepped it up.
on Oct 06, 2007
I am a Wincustomize subsciber (thru 9/20/09) but there is NO download listed for this update in Subscriber Resources or in Theme Manager. HUH?
on Oct 06, 2007

On the subscriber resources page (https://www.wincustomize.com/subscribers.aspx), look to the right.  You will see a list of premium suites.  RIP 2007, XP Augustus, Kryptonite & WC Select.

The names of each suite are a download link.

on Oct 06, 2007
got it, thx
on Oct 07, 2007
This suite is awesome - what a great Halloween present - thanks!!!!!
on Oct 07, 2007
I love this theme but I keep getting an error with Windows Explorer crashing when I try to open something minimized to the taskbar or in the start menu. When I went back to another skin it doesn't do that. I have Vista Home Premium.
on Oct 07, 2007
Just wondering why this doesn't show up in SD Central on the Wincustomize tab like XP Augustus and Kryptonite do? I don't mind downloading them from the link, but since I launch SDC almost everyday to check for updates anyway....   Also, don't click on the preview picture - nothing but a trick there! lol

Looks great, thanks again for the free suite!
on Oct 07, 2007
I agree totally with Gollums. It would be much better if RIP 2007 AND WC Select showed up in SD Central. I am currently an OD Elite (for a start this name makes me sound like a W**ker), SD Central and Wincustomize subscriber. I would much prefer to download these from SD Central. This simple task shouldn't take the mighty IT gurus at Stardock too much time and effort to set up. PLEEEEEEZE!    Commander Phil
on Oct 08, 2007
seems to be missing an EMAIL icon? weird. maybe it's just me LOL
on Oct 09, 2007
It would have been nice if the Desktop Gadgets were also included as Sidebar Gadgets for the Vista users. Any chance of this happening for future releases?
on Oct 10, 2007
so about that email icon? was it just an accident not including it?
on Oct 10, 2007
Thought I would share this Vista SP-1 compatibility issue.

Yesterday I was doing some testing with Vista SP-1 beta 1 and discovered that all three widgets in the R.I.P. suite fail to run under the service pack. They run just fine on the same system before the upgrade, but none will launch either from the Startup or when executed manually.
on Oct 17, 2007
Really like it but it really messes up firefox, the menus at the top are strange, and the bottom task bar all the text is black, making it unusable, for me at least

Sorry, couldnt attach the screenshot as I dont have anywhere to host it

on Oct 19, 2007
couldnt edit .... bumpity bump for the above?
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