I was drafted.... First Skinning app that I used was WinAmp sometime in 1998. I also used Sonique for a while. Those early apps changed the way that I looked at software and computing as a whole.

Winamp first drew me to what a skinning app could be like to use, then I was at skinz.org for awhile. I got hooked on Windowblinds and other programs there. Used to visit Stardocks site where they had skins and became one of the first to join Wincustomize when it was created, user no. 129. I've been here ever since. I'm not a skin contributor but try to give my input where possible. I also try to interest others in what goes on here.

I joined very soon after the site went live. I joined because I was already an Object Desktop subscriber and the skinning sites were either getting lame or disappearing.

I started skinng Windows 3.1 with a program called Aporia, from Tool Technologies. It later became Wintools before disappearing at about the same time Windows 95 was released. I stumbled along with the generic Windows 9x look for a couple of years and discovered Litestep and some other replacement shells round about 1998. Then in the fall of 98 I found Object Desktop and have been a subscriber ever since. Why I even used Cursor XP before Stardock picked it up.

I heard about WindowsBlinds back in 2004 and became a member while enjoying customizing the boring, plain Windows original interface. From there I moved on to try the various other Stardock programs. I haven't started skinning anything until quite recently, but I've loved using this site for all my customizing needs for years. I've come to enjoy the work of so many professionals and newcomers alike. I love being able to learn more or help others out if I can too. Wincustomize has been an excellent service; I'm glad to be a user and now a new provider. I hope the site continues to have great success !

Compared to most of the guys posting before me I'm one of the new kids.  But I'm actually only seven months younger that WC.

I came looking for WB skins and I've never left.

I joined not too long ago. Cool place to hang out though. Lots of nice people, lots of cool skins.

It all started when I bought a used machine that had some weird look to it. I thought something was wrong with XP. I didn't know it was running WB and I new nothing about any of this stuff. When I figured it out, I found out it was a running cracked copy of WB making my machine look so weird.

So, I uninstalled it, came to WC and subscribed during the Christmas Hospital Kids drive, and bought the OD package from Stardock with intentions of making some skins. It looked soooooo easy. NOT!

I ended up not skinning but I love WB6, Icon Packager, and Cursor FX PLus. Maybe when I'm finished with school I can learn to skin but my job is going to keep me away from a computer most of the time anyway.

Thanks to all you awesome skinners out there. Keep on skinnin!

Cheers, f

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I purchased Windowblinds January 28, 2002 so I figure I found ya'll around X-Mas 2001

Back then you didn't have to "sign-up " for Wincustomize so I lurked until I needed/wanted to use the forums which was in July of 2003.

I joined in October of 2005. Stumbled in from a Google Search I believe. Never been the same monkey since. Thanks WC!

Started customization back in 97 with litestep ( SimpleStep as it was known as back then). Along the way I was grabbing new skinable programs as they arrived, like Sonique, Winamp, Builderblinds( which evolved to be Windowblinds),Neoplanet, and hanging out at places like Customize.org, skinz.org,desktopmods,razorart,Doodle quadrent.

I was here at WC 's birth and after a year or so, decided to officially join the ranks. 6 years later Im still here pluggin away at it and having a blast.

I was searching for wallpapers back in 03' and Wincustomize was turning into favorite place to snag them, i believe the site was an awful brown color back then, i signed up in 04' gave Windowblinds a try, then IP, then i was hooked and i haven't left since, but i am returning the favor and submitting a wallpaper or two!

long ago when the internet was still new to me, i was trying to make sense of what to do with the internet, as it seemed well, boring to me at time. the only thing i use to do was just download different applications and try them out, and usualy delete them. sadly windowsblinds was one of the many random programs i downloaded a shareware of, experimented with and deleted, probably cause at the time it had just come out and the skins realy didn't impress me much then, however for some reason or another the application name stuck in my mind and a few years later i came back to it. it now had better skins , so i decided to buy a OD subscription and i have bean subscriber ever since.

Happy Birthday Wincustomize! I've been a member since Jul 22, 2001. I had been looking for shell replacements as I hated Windows looks. I found winstep, hoverdesk, Talisman and Aston shells. Something about those programs at that time just didn't have any umpfff! I ran across the windowblind program and wincustomize by pure luck and search engins. We have been a match ever since, I still go every once in a while and check the new versions of those other programs, as I own them also. For the most part they have evolved into pretty good programs, But there is nothing like stardock software and I doubt there ever will be. I plan on being a loyal stardocker for as long as I can. Thank you stardock.  

Don't remember how i happened across the site last winter. But i signed up in April , searched through things a bit and then got busy with work and kind of forgot about it. Came back to it through a saved bookmark this past fall and haven't left since.

I must have signed up within 2nd or 3rd day of Wincustomize went live. I was skinner at Skinz for a long time before.

...you meant Stardockian right?