sanctified Veteran Posted December 18, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 18, 2001 Originally posted by freek a couple of facts 1. tgtsoft is a business 2. you should of known that eventualy the free ride would be over 3. styles xp makes winblowsblinds look like **** 4. switching to WB is just wrong 5.if you don't want to pay to enjoy the new themes just use the beta :) 1.- nullsoft is another business 2.- winamp is free 3.- winamp makes any mp3 player looks like **** 4.- switching to another mp3 player is just wrong 5.- I dont need to pay just an example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 mdkotz@home.com can someone send me Styles XP v3. Also I don't know why everyone is getting their panties tied in a knot because as soon as styles XP non beta full version if it uses a serial number then then serial number will be all over the net within a day and if it doesn't then someone will eventually make a crack and that will be all over the net in one day but for now I am giong to leave Styles XP v.4.1 installed until it expires and then I will uninstall it and from what I have done in the past and from what I have heard you can still use the themes without after uninstalling styles xp so when mine expires thats what I am going to do and by uninstalling styles xp and loosing the skins tgtsoft made well I don't care because their are plenty other better ones out there. P.S Yes I want styles XP v.3 because just incase a crack is not made a a serial number is not leaked and also because I like to screw around with things and maybe I can come up with somehting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted December 19, 2001 Author Share Posted December 19, 2001 A quick note about Frogboy's meaning of "freeware" he thinks freeware is slapping a nag screen on something, untill you buy the better full version :) Which is ok, but is certainly not freeware. And big_mark, both style XP and Style Builder go by some hardware ID, so it's not like any old serial would work. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostile Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 That's not the point. The skin authors(and everyone else for that matter) were more or less "tricked" into thinking they were skinning for an open format. A format used NATIVELY (now realize this is actually MS's code here) under XP. I feel it is indeed wrong to charge for Styles XP, being as it's a hack off of someone elses code. It's like me selling a patch to make Windows Messenger have different color icons. Make Stylebuilder easier for the average PC user, and you can make money off people wanting to do stuff for themselves. TGT has really pimped this thing out, on a lot of message boards. Boards perhaps if they were clearer with their business plan to begin with, they would have gotten booted off of for advertising. Whole websites dedicated to their theme hack. Boy, the "free" adverstising doesn't get any better. Now that's just my take on things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike11212 Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 seems like almost everyone is broke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 ok then someone will just have to make a crack :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted December 19, 2001 Author Share Posted December 19, 2001 well I am almost positive someone will make a program that does the same thing for free.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukuX Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 i think tgtsoft will have to keep "improving" (read: bloating up) stylesxp to justify their 20bux tag. no necessarily a bad thing but do we need another wb clone? the reason i didnt go for wb is becoz it has too many features i dont need. (arbitrary placemenent of buttons, definable borders etc etc) i am used to the buttons layout the way it is and am not bothered to remember a new layout some guy fixed up in the theme. i switched to stylesxp thinking it's just a brilliant little hack to allow winxp to function as it shld have been. and now this....bleh! i agree with the other guys, someone is bound to come out with a uxtheme hack pretty soon. sorry stylesxp. otoh, if justin frankel and the winamp guys decides to come and take over XP skinning and create a quick, compact freeform skinning program...i'll pay 'em 20bux for it! :) though i think he'll probably charge 10bux and within a year be bought over by Apple, who will fund him and then the program will be free forever and will take ages to reach ver3 but will probably have the coolest community sites ever! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcane Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 yo u guys saying stylexp only prompts you to register only if you have stylebuilder installed on the same system as well? because I am using stylexp 4.1 plus for a while now and no nags or anything...but I also dont have stylebuilder installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Posted December 19, 2001 Author Share Posted December 19, 2001 Arcane, no it wont nag you, or say a damn thing about it, untill it's too late, thats my gripe. My system time accidently got turned ahead, and when I rebooted it literally took 3 minutes for me to get from my logon screen to my desktop, then a popup says style XP was expired and to enter the reg code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 I dont see anything really wrong with windowblinds, but i do like stylez xp themes better. again, i do have styles xp beta 3, and if you need it contact me on aim [facti0n] or e-mail me. i have given to like 10 people tonight. god i am nice lol ":D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Mark Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 I think I have an idea on how to get the styles xp v.4 to work but I haven't tried it. instead of uninstalling using the windows uninstaller just go to C:Program Filestgtsoft (or wherever you have it) and judt delete the folder and take the styles xp startup thing out of the startup and that should work but I haven't tried it because I haven't got that warning yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightburn Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Hi. I noticed I have a style XP service running . Im running style xp 4.0 right now. Recently ive had to restart the style xp service to get my themes to work again. What should i do to solve this problem ? go back to beta 3 ? or just uninstall all instances of stylexp/stylebuilder and install the UxTheme.dll ? My two cents about Style XP/Stylebuilder being shareware..... I don't like it - I won't pay for it. I will never pay for skinning abilities. I don't think many people will either. Do they realize that if they charge for this program it won't be nearly as good a product. All the programming in the world doesn't do any good unless you have all potential developers making skins. If they charge for StyleBuilder they are only hurting themselves - this will push many potential developers away. Thanks :) -RN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosAD Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 I don't think the point is the money, I think what ****es me off as well as everybody else is...... deviantART: How much does Style XP cost? TGT Soft: Style XP is free and will probably remain free until we can provide more content. The patch to uxtheme.dll will always be free. Funny, I don't see a link anywhere on their site for just the dll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akuma-x Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 i find this very funny because even the software they are "bloating" and charging for is still just patching the dll in memory. And the only reason they are doing it that way is so they do not get busted by MS for hacking the dll. I can very much see them charging for the style builder but $20 for a hacked dll is just crap! to tell you the truth it was not even them that found out how to hack the dll. all they did was release it in a nice neat exe. for everyone to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 To all of you who keep posting asking for some hack for the uxtheme or program that replaces the functionality of stylesxp. Are you people blind or just stupid? Just freaking hack the dll yourself. One line of code is all that needs to be changed within the dll. Unbelievable the lack of savvy or inability to read that is popping up on this board. You get all of the fun, none of the fat you keep whining about.. Ishmael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortensen Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Are you people blind or just stupid? Just freaking hack the dll yourself. One line of code is all that needs to be changed within the dll. Unbelievable the lack of savvy or inability to read that is popping up on this board Yeah... but most people DON'T know how to change just one line of code... LOADS of people have trouble following the simple instructions to use the hacked DLL, so they stand no chance doing the whole thing themselves. And I love that quote saying they will only charge when the offer some other content... I'm still waiting. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Hey KaosAD thanks for digging that quote up I was gonna do it myself till I saw you did. And as for offering more content they did but they no longer have the hacked dll available for free. This really ****es me off. Oh well TGT sucks. Every time I put my faith in something new that seems good like this is goes to crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebird Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 hey tgtsoftcock i like to be kissed before iam ****ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 19, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 19, 2001 lol :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinh Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 god damit...!!! i loved style xp 4 why did yous have make us pay now... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedneyshields Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 i have the uxtheme.dll from version 3 in a zipped folder.if i uninstall version 4.1 where do i move the uxtheme.dll to 2 make it work. thanx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anad Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 well if i remember correctly they already said it in an interview long time ago i just can't remember where it was.. maybe it was devianart or customize.... any way.. they said that they were going to make StyleXP into 2 versions one that only enable the theming in XP and they cleared it will always be free and the other on StyleXP"plus" (see the word plus:P .. not only M$ that does 'plus'es these days) and it will be consisting of StyleXP 'plus' skin packs and this one is the version that will be charged for..... i hope someone still remember where that interview was and post the link :right: cause i am tired of looking for it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosAD Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 Here's the link for the interview, it was at DevArt http://www.deviantart.com/news.php?id=6011 and another news thread started on the whole charging issue there also, didn't have time to read it though http://www.deviantart.com/news.php?id=6281 deviantART: How much does Style XP cost? TGT Soft: Style XP is free and will probably remain free until we can provide more content. The patch to uxtheme.dll will always be free. IShnoob, the issue is, they lied, they are charging and do NOT offer just the dll or even another version of StylesXP. Just the Plus version of it. Don't come in here flaming people cause they were lied to. Since you are God of all programmers why don't you write an exe that will remove the one line of code, if you are that tired of hearing people complain. We all know the good peeps here have offered the dll, thanks guys. Again, since you seems to have some gray matter loose, the ISSUE is we were LIED to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anad Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 man when in the world did i falme anyone??? pls read my post clearly before start flaming others.......... and read yours too deviantART: How much does Style XP cost? TGT Soft: Style XP is free and will probably remain free until we can provide more content. The patch to uxtheme.dll will always be free. read carefully.... ALWAYS BE FREE and if u go to TGTsoft download site you will find two versions.. in the top is styleXPplus with the more 'content' and underneath it is the small one StyleXP with 'minimum functionality & smaller download than Style XP Plus'... so please check your info before flaming anyone... i just tried to clear for you guys something you missed and i got flamed for it.. thats not good:disappoin oh and thanx for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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