Power Archiver Skinning Contest Update

Published on June 13, 2006 By Stardock Design In WinCustomize News

PowerArchiver is a compression utility and archiving solution that has been downloaded by tens of millions of users worldwide. PowerArchiver has been awarded Microsoft's Designed for Windows certification.

Recently, PowerArchiver licensed DirectSkin from Stardock to adding skinning technology to this award-winning application. As part of the launch PowerArchiver has hosted a skinning contest with over a $1000 in prizes.

The contest is complete and the judges are already voting. You can see the skins for yourself at: http://www.powerarchiver.com/skins/

Comments

Z71

on Jun 13, 2006

Been so busy, I missed this one.
There's some nice looking skins submitted.
Good luck, all!

George Rogers Jr

on Jun 13, 2006

Like Z71 I TOTALLY missed this event...do you have to uninstall WindowBlinds in order to use these skins by purchasing PA?? All the skins submitted look awesome! Thx!

GhoS

on Jun 13, 2006

As with any skinned app Windowblinds will should usually not skin it, if it attempts to, you can exclude it. Though I haven't found any issue with other apps that skin themselves and WB.

George Rogers Jr

on Jun 14, 2006

I was wondering if there was going to be a conflict since, as I understand it, you have to purchase PA to make these work...GhoS - just asking or anyone here...have you used PowerArchiver?? I hate to ask concerning other apps other than those at SD/WinCus - I'm using IZArc & like it alot, but I'm always looking for better compression utilities. Are the log/off screens skinned??

PixelPirate

on Jun 14, 2006

It's just the app itself that's skinned. It doesn't affect the rest of the system, and WB doesn't affect PA either. You can try the 30 day trial of PowerArchiver to see how it works. Personally, I find it to be one of the best compression utilities I've ever tried.

Erk.

on Jun 14, 2006

Nice to see that some of the good folks from here are entering the comp over there .... good job guys

George Rogers Jr

on Jun 15, 2006

Thx PP!!!

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