Don't worry, cp, I won't tell anyone!

I started out with Windowblinds, then once i got a hold of Objectdock plus, i thought i hit the mother lode, then for the heck of it one day, i installed MyColors, and havent looked back, i purchased almost every one of mycolors themes, (exception of NCAA, just the Boston College one and the Boston Celtics) now i spend more time changing themes, and matching the colors of the theme with my docks, i swear at this point i am constantly changing things all the time, maybe, just maybe i have too much free time on my hands LOL

Being a "Program junkie"  and using computers since 1984, it's hard to say what started me down this long, winding road to customization.  I too went the route of alternate shell programs. (Litestep, bbLean, Talisman, Aston) A freeware program, PowerPro, let me make toolbars, menus and lots of other stuff (and I still use it for macros, menus, alarms, hotkeys and stuff) but my taskbar and windows were still Boring!  Then I got stuck on StyleXP for the longest time and I thought I was happy.

When I got my NEW computer, it had Vista, which StyleXP didn't work on, so I searched for an alternative and recently (June, 2008) found Windowblinds.  I've since purchased ObjectDesktop Ultimate and OD plus.  I go through WC everyday (sometimes more than once!) and get more skins, dreams, widgets etc.  I've made one widget and uploaded some Walls.

It's taken over my life! (and I love every minute of it!)

Rule Of The Yard:  Never ask a convict what he did, you're suppose to ask him what did those SOB's accuse you of?

If you want to be his friend that is!

On a personal note, I had another worthless Public Defender!

Well...for me it started out stumbling upon LiteStep, then I found Beatnik, Coolpad and a few other little things like that. As my addiction grew..I had to have more. I couldn't stop. It consumed my life....somehow 7 years ago I stumbled upon this little fledgling website call Wincustomize. I saw what they had to offer so I tried out this Windowblinds thingy. It worked pretty cool, I liked what it could do. Then I saw this thing called Desktop X. hmmmmm, I said. How bad can I screw up my system with this. Tried it out....Wow, I can really screw with people's heads with this. After DX, it was OD, then all the others. After this, my friends and family new I had a problem, They looked for that magic "800" number (you know, like the one you find on the back of scratch lottery tickets". Well, they couldn't find one so they called in some outside professional help. The pro's took one look at me and had me committed to a life long sentence in rehab to recover from this addiction. My body is trying to recover, but my mind won't let it. So just to mess with myself...I come here everyday. I refuse to recover. I'm now permanently committed to the WC looney bin.

Damn you people here! Why do you have to make everything so incredible and be so nice and funny all the time.

For me it was Obect Dock..  Then it was all down hill from there.  I am just happy to be a part of this site and all the great people here.. 

Yeah, I reckon they're the best, too... and since agreeing to scrapping the early release/parole program, they're even betterer than best.  And BoXXi, you have no worries about ever getting paroled... er, that's been scrapped... um released.  You are a repeat offender, and without remorse, so your sentence is for the term of your natural life... never to be released.  Happy Now???

And yeah, it's great to see you popping in again... here's hoping all is well for you and your family.

No worries, mate... that parole businesss can be a real worry, so I asked 'em to scrap it for our peace of mind.  I mean, we should have some tenure and security after going to great effort to customise our cells with elegant Windowblinds and the like.

Oh well, now that we've got paroles out of the way, I think conjugal visits should be next on the agenda with prison management.

hmmmm........first customization goes back to the days of DOS . I used to get specialized drivers for my video cards to work with AutoCAD. The drivers let you change fonts, colors, menus and create floating, iconic menus......sound familiar?

Most of those Video Card companies have disappeared now....STB, Oak Tech, Boca Research, Diamond, Orchid, Hercules.............

Once Windows caught on I went to Norton Desktop to get some added "customization"

Eventually got around to updating to XP and did some web searching to come up with Windowblinds and StyleXP....tried both and quickly realized Windowblinds for the better product....purchsed Windowblinds stand alone in January of 2001, Object Desktop 3 or 4 months later......

Whoa! I guess customization has been around longer than I thought!

Sorry, cp! BTW- what did they accuse you of?

And let us not forget "Jeff Bargaman Hall," for he hath given us so many of these great apps!

Precisely... we shall now refer to the prison workshop gallery as the "Jeff Bargaman Hall"

And we can't forget our great founder, Brad Wardell.... the swimming pool shall henceforth be adorned with lily pads and be named "Frog's Pond"

Oh, and we can't forget the contributions of Neil Banfield.... therefore I propose we name the skylights in the Jafo library the "Banfield Wndows"  Orright, they're not 'exactly' windows - and they'd sure look better without the security bars - but they are certainly more aesthetically pleasing to the eye thanks to his WindowBlinds.