First Great Skin

can you remember?

Published on April 13, 2006 By kenwas In Community

Can you remember the first skin that really blew you away and got you hooked on customization?

Mine was Thredz by Dangeruss and Thredz. That skin made it impossible to have vanilla Win ever again. When I look at it now, I am amazed at what a fine piece of work it was and still is!

How about you?

Comments (Page 2)

Jafo

on Apr 13, 2006

Thug-Life Feb '99 was a Litestep theme that had me go 'wow'.....certainly memorable....and different....

teddybearcholla

on Apr 13, 2006

I don't remember which skin I downloaded first...I know I was surfing cnet, and there was this program called windowblinds, which sounded really cool!! I think that was in 2002...I do remember one that reminded me of a Tonka truck..it was yellow and black, kind of a heavy machinery wb...I think I loved all of them, especially the holiday ones, they just did wonders for my desktop...and still do!!!

Island Dog

on Apr 13, 2006

There wasn't just "one" for me. After exploring this site for a few hours I was hooked.

Fuzzy Logic

on Apr 13, 2006

I'd had many skins on before, but this one stayed on my desktop for months.

Tominated

on Apr 13, 2006

I remember now...

on my grandparents old pc I put objectbar on it to get the xp look, then I found GT2 by tiggz and loved that. but I could only have OB back then (Windows ME) and I didn't have the money for OD

rabidrobot

on Apr 13, 2006

I'd used a lot of styles and blinds, but it was Hellfire Link
by Hippy Link that totally turned me on and got me interested. Although I've never actually made a Windowblind, Hellfire was just so cool I had to look closer.

scorpio-logic

on Apr 13, 2006

I've only been in the WC community a short while, so bare with me...

I was looking for something to go with litestep, and I stumbled on Avenger. This brought me to the sysmetrix skin and finally WB. Once I found WB, litestep has been on the back burner. No one really comes up with eye-popping coolness with Litestep, save for Obsidian here of late. And Litestep won't skin all the aspects of Windows.

I would have to say Avenger did it for me. Still is quite cool to use. Thanks Mike https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=3337&LibID=1

RockinMike

on Apr 13, 2006

Cool, I remember my first time here at this site. like a kid in a toy store. Since the first visit It has become an addiction and all cool ways of customizing windows. The first skin that caught my eye I've downloaded just a few minutes ago due to this new laptop I have. Seti green by DavidK. It would be really cool to see some of these great skins get an update.

starkers

on Apr 13, 2006

Far too many to mention all of them....once I'd discovered WC, I was like a kid in a candy store with a $1000 note.

CopperDeck, I think, was the first that stayed on my desktop for quite a while....after playing with Desktop Architect, those shiny orange buttons and textures really grabbed me. However, with so many talented artists here, it was and is impossible to ever remain with just one skin/theme. I return to many of them regularly, but the one that gets put up more frequently is DMN-Tweak by Jay....I love dark skins and that one is right up there for me.

Jaramia

on Apr 13, 2006

Apollo or Fred

Double Zero

on Apr 13, 2006

Back in '02 when Iwas heavily into win98 desktop themes there was an author that put one out that was mixed with a WindowBlind..from that moment on I knew that I had to find out more about WBs and how I could have them!..LoL
The theme was Ghostbusters..

SKoriginals

on Apr 14, 2006

I think Darkstar did it for me... but thats what got me wanting to skin more so than just interested in general. I loved the theme but had to have it in black/green not black/red and force coloring it just didn't look as good as tweaking all the images to get it just right.

I know, I know, its a TSF skin and I might get some flack for that but I've also only been around for less than a year and some of these older skins and stuff were not the first I came across. Ultimately what got me into skinning (even in general) was creating my own desktops (and so on) from my own images. The whole concept was just too sweet to not get into.

Cyberworld

on Apr 14, 2006

Always the one it impressed me and still does is Avenger by ya all know who.

kenwas

on Apr 14, 2006

This is great Aveneger was one of the names that I just could not remember and it is such a great skin!

chu99g

on Apr 14, 2006

Something Different by Mgiff. It was the first thing I saw when I first logged to WC. I was looking for a wallpaper and found out what a windowblind was!

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