Style XP Expired :(


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What the majority of people posting on this topic (myself included) are outraged about is the fact that Styles XP started out as A SINGLE FILE that allowed for the use of different styles. Now the "file" has evolved into a program that must be paid for in order to be used, and it was not even expected or mentioned by TGTSoft. That is what angers me the most.

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okay Cody, so StylesXP didn't tell you, waah. Hack the file yourself.

Since so many people seem to be so helpless, here is the hacked uxtheme.dll. I will not make step by step directions so you can feel some sense of accomplishment.

Sorry about no attachment, it must be too large: Here is a link to a rar I made with my own hacked dll.

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hmm

paying for style builder is ok, but why should we pay for stylexp ?

its just a patch!

hey TGTSoft are you stoned and seeing much $$ ?

now i understand why they changed from file patching to memory patching.

cya

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Cody and anyone else ****ed off about paying..

You want money for work you do right? You have a job? Do you get paid? Yeah? Thought so, so shut up. You're no different than these programmers. You have a job, you do work, you get paid. Whats so hard to understand?

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I knew this would happen. They are really selling Microsoft's code again. Sort of. I bet this is why they went with the memory patch instead of hacking the dll. They couldn't selll something with a file of MS's.

This was all done pretty sneaky, IMO. I never cared for Frogboy peddling all Stardocks items, but at least he is straight forward about it.

Glad I never upgraded past beta 2. To those that did and fought with me about how great it is, told ya so. :-p

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Well (boobless).. that won't do you any good. Beta 3 is still time limited (90 days).

To those of you who have Beta 3 installed and would like to keep your dll, copy your dll somewhere else (not in winnt folder), rename it to the backup file of the original dll in your system32 folder and replace. When the uninstaller runs, it will replace your dll with the backup. This way you don't have to find out how to disable the SFP.

This will only work with the Beta3.

Other notes: I think it'll serve their purpose to charge for only one of the two programs. If they charge for styleXP, then don't charge for StyleBuilder. This will encourage theme development. If they charge for SyleBuilder and StyleXP is free, then more people will have the ability to change themes, thus encouraging people to develop. Either way, it'll be better than charging for both.

I personally won't pay money for something that is half-assed. They need to develop the programs into something more robust than what they currenly have before they start charging such prices. Remember, people will pay IF it's worth it.

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I've just uninstalled styles XP (there were two in my uninstall list!) and after a reboot all of my themes worked fine, which shows that it hasn't put back my original uxtheme.dll. now I had beta 3 installed then i installed 4 over that (thats why there were two in my uninstall list), now they are both uninstalled (apparently) will i still get a expired message. I dont really understand how a hacked dll will prompt you to pay for something, or does it just cease to work?

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Btw, I am quite suprise that Frogboy is not bitching about this right about now.

FYI, he is the guy behind starcrap.

TGT is bunch of idiots, are they ****ing stupid? they are only suppose to charge only one of the component, they have to give their client (styleXP) away for free and sell stylebuilder for a low price and at least give skin developers a reson to get it.

Oh well, another company down to do the drain.

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i haven't checked yet for stylebuilder 3-

but at

PabUK - Link removed, you know the rules.

(beware of porn ;) )

they have had cracks for everyother version! lets beat this suck-azz imatture sh!t that tgt soft is pulling..... they were are friends, but damn now they are one hell of an emeny ^_^

once again, its:

PabUK - Link removed, you know the rules.

for stylebuilder cracks!

and thanks freeza for the .dll, goodbye ****ty software ^_^

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maybe it's my fault for not reading through the page enough, but they sure don't make it very clear that its a time limited thing. i personally have uninstalled it, and deleted all the themes i had downloaded. theming windows is cool and all, but not worth paying for to me - maybe when you can do FULL GUI changes, but right now the devolpers are limited to pretty basic changes.

i don't fault the compnay for trying to make a buck - i mean, they are a COMPANY after all - i just don't like feeling like i was misled.

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If tgtsoft is smart, they'll do what WB does and put a nag screen in a shareware version that asks you to buy the whole deal. I can deal with hitting "OK" twice when changing a theme. but I won't pay for a service that hardly ever runs on my computer (once a theme is loaded, stylexp stops running), plus I don't have a credit card to pay for style xp even if I would.

oh well, even if they do charge, I'll find a way to get it. I have "connections. " :D

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uuummmmmmm!!!

i haven't checked yet for stylebuilder 3-

but at

PabUK - Link removed, you know the rules.

(beware of porn )

they have had cracks for everyother version! lets beat this suck-azz imatture sh!t that tgt soft is pulling..... they were are friends, but damn now they are one hell of an emeny ^_^

once again, its:

PabUK - Link removed, you know the rules.

for stylebuilder cracks!

No Warez (links) or Cracks: These kinds of posts are not tolerated here

(Cheers :D )

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Originally posted by kawai

Btw, I am quite suprise that Frogboy is not bitching about this right about now.

FYI, he is the guy behind starcrap.

[stardock kid]

He's not posting because he doesn't have to. Most of the previous StyleXP users are doing it for him.

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I downloaded and installed beta 4 of styles xp the day it came out and i have been using it without it bothering me, i think that it's the applet it puts in the taskbar that bugs you to register.

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