Style XP Expired :(


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Hi,

My Style XP expired today.... I was under the impression this was going to be freeware... and it said nowhere on the mainpage, or download page that it was shareware and that it cost's $20 US to skin xp! I am a little put out, and shocked at the same time that they would even consider doing this (I was a beta tester, and I really had no clue that they were going to charge for style XP). I hope the authors who had their skins in that pack know about this, and are getting paid or something, although charging for skins is wrong imo ..... I dont even know what to say I'm so shocked, I guess I should have read all the pages before downloading anything..... :(

Chris

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I am quite shocked at this aswell.

Is it style xp AND stylebuilder that has the 30 days or is it just style builder...?

I would hate to make themes just by hacking at the theme files with reshacker :) But looks like that is what is going to happen :)

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Whaaat?

I thought StyleXP was free and Style Builder was to pay for.

This is really shocking. Guess I have to change to WB3 then (already payed for that), even though I like StyleXP more.

Life is a b....

Seismo

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what the ****?! Thats bull. There are so many people making skins and now stylez xp s charing. Hmm, when is it gonna expire. I dont understand why they would do this. so yor saying that it just stops working, and we are gonna have to use normal fugly luna skins :ermm: :evil:

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Here are some scenarios:

1. Some skin authors will get ****ed off, and stop developing leaving the stylexp community with no amazing themes, unless they get paid to do it.

2. poeple will see no difference between wb3 and stylexp , thus switching to wb3.

3. time limit will be cracked, and life goes on

4. poeple will pay the $20 for convenience and just stick with the themes they have grown to love.

IMHO, it will take a little more for tgtsoft to convince poeple to buy thier products. They'll need to make some awesome themes themselves.

Also, are any of the community skin authors getting paid for this?

Did you sign a contract to give all rights to your theme to them?

Or they doing this without your permissions?

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With so many styles all over the internet, i think

StylesXP should be free.

I can understand the fact that Stylebuilder is a

shareware product - but it will be cracked soon,

i think.

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all you really need is the dll, the program is of no importance and i have deleted it and themes work fine, but here is the dll from beta 3 to anybody that wants it.

look below :cheeky:

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I've tried uninstalling 4 then reinstalling 3 and it didn't work!! Anyway, where do you place the themeui.dll file, is it in the windowssystem32 dir? also doesn't the uxtheme.dll need to be replace as well?

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Is this uxtheme.dll from 3? also to replace do you have to start in safe mode? I've just tries reinstalling 3 and i was checking the terms and conditions and it says that 3 will expire in 90 days anyway.

Is the uxtheme.dll all you need? I mean can we uninstall style xp completely then just replace that one file?

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It looks like TGTSoft is going the route of Windowblinds. So which to choose? At least WB offers the builder for free (so far) maybe I will switch to that? I don't know yet, and will wait for the dust to settle.

BTW: StylesXP was originally free because it was only a cracked dll that enabled the themes to work. Now that they are going a different route, they must have decided to charge for both!

I will stay with the old cracked dll for now, but that may change for the themes may come out requiring TGTsoft's new version.

Has any of the themers that have themes added to Styles install been paid????

(I am at work now, and a little miffed about all this, so my thoughts are a bit hectic currently)

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yup, its the only file you need, i've uninstalled stylexp long time ago and everything works great

and yes its the dll from beta 3 or maybe beta 2 but in any case it still works and it works flawlessly

if anything they changed how the program acts from beta 2 to beta 3, im pretty sure the dll remained the same considering they didnt have to change much.

and to replace it im pretty sure all that needs to be done is to go into services.msc and turn off/stop the Themes service then replace the dll and turn it back on.....i dont think going into safe mode is necessary.

heres the link again

UxTheme.zip :)

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So for people who have installed v4, can they totally uninstall, restart in safe mode then replace uxtheme.dll and it will work?

[Edit] Sorry, a bit of a delayed reaction there :D [/Edit]

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