MyColors Replacing Premium Suites

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Published on April 25, 2008 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

As some of you probably have noticed, we've begun moving some of our Premium Suites over to MyColors. And if you've purchased the Pirate or Magic Desktop Premium Suites recently, you'll soon be receiving (if you haven't already) an email explaining that your purchase has been upgraded to the MyColors version of the suite, which have been tested to work in both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

What does this mean for Premium Suites overall? Well, they're being replaced entirely by MyColors Themes. We've begun the process of upgrading older themes such as Omega to MyColors, upgrading the skins and icons to work under Windows Vista.

As older suites are upgraded, if you purchased within a certain time window, you will receive a free upgrade, otherwise there will be a small upgrade fee. In the case of Omega, it's any orders placed since November 30th, 2007 up to the point where the suite was upgraded to MyColors. If you purchased prior to November 30th, you can upgrade for just $4.95. The upgrade price is there because the suite was XP only and has been upgraded for Vista.

Want to keep track of which of our Premium Suites have been upgraded to MyColors? Keep an eye on the Inspired Themes list.

The biggest advantage to users with this switch is now if we upgrade a theme, or fix a bug later on, it can be automatically distributed to all users via the MyColors distribution tool.

Comments (Page 3)

neophil78

on Apr 26, 2008

19.95 for a suite. That's too much

But as a subscriber yuou'll get a special price (which will be also at least twice the one you got before

)

neophil78

on Apr 26, 2008

"Let those of us who already have WB, etc., just download a theme file that we can unzip and install as we wish, without the need to screw up our OD installation to do it." Completely support this idea.

+++++++

Chasbo

on Apr 26, 2008

Forget everything I said. I'm an old codger with a chip on my shoulder. I had to stay late at work last night which put me in a bad mood. Things look better this morning. Maybe one day I'll grow up.

angus1949

on Apr 26, 2008

Get an Indiana University and a Notre Dame theme made and it will peak my interest!!

angus1949

on Apr 26, 2008

Maybe one day I'll grow up

Chasbo, Never completely grow up, it makes people boring.

Tonans

on Apr 26, 2008

Install MyColors
- Open MyColors and install Magic/Pirate
- Close MyColors and Open WindowBlinds
- Choose Magic or Pirate and clic Apply
- Open IconPackager
- Choose Magic or Pirate and clic Apply

That's it!

One problem with this - MyColors does not work on Vista x64, leaving us out in the cold. Any ETA on an x64 version?

Moletai

on Apr 26, 2008

I agree with those saying MyColors somewhat complicate things for ODNT subscribers. Not only what was mentioned but it might be added that My Colors suites take additional place on hard disk. Duplicate files are stored which is waste of space for me. What is more annoying, for instance, it is impossible to use MyColors wb skin imported into Right click (It goes pixelated). I even had problems using explorer toolbar customized icons with Mycolors skin on XP (also pixelated).The only good thing is possibility to get updates (and info about them) quickly and easily.

PuterDudeJim

on Apr 26, 2008

One problem with this - MyColors does not work on Vista x64, leaving us out in the cold. Any ETA on an x64 version?

I am running x64 Vista Home Premium and My Colors works fine for me.

PuterDudeJim

on Apr 26, 2008

My question is this: Will the old suites still work with the old theme manager? Call me a tightwad, but I don't want to pay an extra $4.95 for a theme I already bought for $19.95. I once bought a skin called challenger, and when it was updated, I got the new skin for free. Personally, I think the same should apply here. I will probably just continue to use the old theme manager for older themes. I could be wrong..... (

PuterDudeJim

on Apr 26, 2008

Also, off subject, maybe, I just bought the Mustang suite several days ago and can't use it. It will not activate thru my colors. It is being looked at by someone at Stardock Support, but it is taking time. I may wait a while before buying any more suites so they can work out the bugs. I don't like paying for stuff that I can't use.

ZubaZ

on Apr 26, 2008

Challenger was offered by a master skinner I think, not Stardock Design. Each sets their own rules.

Your old suites should work with the old app. No problems.

And for some suites that are migrating to themes (like Pirate and Magic) user are being upgraded for free. I think it depends on how much time was spent upgrading the themes and how recently they were released.

Astyanax

on Apr 26, 2008

I am running x64 Vista Home Premium and My Colors works fine for me.

Do tell how you got it working. It installs, but doesn't decrypt any suites for me.

PuterDudeJim

on Apr 26, 2008

Do tell how you got it working. It installs, but doesn't decrypt any suites for me.

I don't really know, I just installed Impulse, then My Colors, and all my suites work just fine. I actually have more trouble with My Colors on x32 XP than x64 Vista. This may sound dumb, but you are trying to use MyColors suites, right? The older theme mgr. suites don't work with MyColors. Just checking.

Frogboy

on Apr 26, 2008

Where is the logic in this? If I have Window Blinds, why in the world would I even wish to mess with this My Colors?

MyColors is a manager. MyColors uses WindowBlinds.

The reason you'd get MyColors is to get the themes. MyColors will automatically handle updating the themes for you when we improve them.

Frogboy

on Apr 26, 2008

The X64 version of MyColors will be out soon. VERY soon or you'll be hearing about deaths at Stardock. Purely accidental of course. Heh, glad I added that last part.

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