How long have you been skinning?

Was making my own color themes on Win 98SE when I had it in like 1999. Discovered Windowblinds and such in 2004 (applying skins, couldn't make 'em to save my life).

#452736

Ertai: they why are you here?

#452742

digital james, what was skinning LIKE on windows 98?

32 pixel icons (non-antialiased), buggy windowblinds and some cheesy Bryce 3D walls.....lol

Thredz was the theme back then....lol

Thredz

#452746

early 2004, but didn't seriously get into it until about a year and a half later

#452764

i guess at the start of 2005

DJ that is god damn sexy

#452765

2000 Windows ME baby Litestep, SharpE, etc. Loved every minute of it.

Did a whole desktop theme, wall, and cursor set on DMC. Too bad when the game came out it sucked.

Hell I still have desktops saved from those dark ages. Memories...

#452768

Since... umm... good question....

2001? when my family got a new computer with Style XP preinstalled... my first theme or skin was 'Cough drop", the orange one and I used XP's autumn background.

I later updated style XP and found an OSX style theme and thats when my emulating fetish began... before too long i started looking for a finder.

actually NO, longer than that... I used to change the theme in Windows 98- "Jungle" was my favourite- it had a wicked dark jungle wall, creepy crawly cursors and brownish windows but for windows 98 it was pretty good.

#452775

April 2005.

It's not really fun anymore.

#452780

Make sure you guys don't overlap with this thread:

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=22634

I've been skinning since late 2003.

-NC

#452788

Oh wait, do you mean skinning as in deskmodding? My bad. I've been skinning since early 2005 (small stuff). Started with constantly changing the wallpaper, then figured out how to get the silver Luna skin. That got me thinking that if I can make it silver, why not something else? Saw a Mac, wanted to have something exactly like that; Google'd around, found FlyakiteOS X, which had a link to this place.

There, my life story.

#452789

2003

Destroyed my first computer with Flyakite 1.

#452790

2003
Destroyed my first computer with Flyakite 1.

I destroyed mine with Flaykite 2. I didn't know what drivers were, so every time I installed XP again it didn't work right and I just gave up and bought a mac mini. I could fix it now though, I still have that old dell.

#452795

I don't skin either.

#452797

I destroyed mine with Flaykite 2. I didn't know what drivers were, so every time I installed XP again it didn't work right and I just gave up and bought a mac mini. I could fix it now though, I still have that old dell.

Which further proves the point that FlyakiteOSX and A-S sells more Macs then the ads.

#452802

Make sure you guys don't overlap with this thread:

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=22634

I've been skinning since late 2003.

-NC

oops... thought this sounded familiar

sorry NC.

#452803

Started way back in 2000 with RHL 6.2

Up until that time, it was wishful thinking through the years of 3.11, and only some wallpapers and playing around with the colour schemes in Win95. Never used 98, used ME for a bit then moved on.

Worked my way up to Win XP only when I discovered this site. I mean, have you seen some of those themes with massive window decorations, overdone Start menus, etc??

#452804

Make sure you guys don't overlap with this thread:

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=22634

I've been skinning since late 2003.

-NC

Remember this:?

[NanCy] WHO WHAT WHY?!
[NanCy] Someone tell me what's going on!

[NanCy, quietly sobbing] Why doesn't anyone like me?

LMAO. Definitely worth a new sig...

#452809