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Users then began to explore the potential of such features as freeform skinning, titlebar animation, and scripting, resulting in a number of unique skins. SkinStudio is a popular software tool by Stardock used to create skins for WindowBlinds, as well as programs such as ObjectBar, WebBlinds, PocketBlinds, Koala Player and Windows Media Player.
Windows Media Player 7.0 and its successors also came in the same fashion, replacing each other but leaving Media Player and Windows Media Player 6.4 intact. Windows XP is the only operating system to have three different versions of Windows Media Player (v5.1, v6.4, and v8) side by side.
WinCustomize was launched in March 2001 by Brad Wardell and Pat Ford, both of whom work at Stardock.After the dot-com recession had taken down many popular skin sites, WinCustomize quickly grew in popularity due to a combination of wide variety of content, uptime reliability, and being the preferred content destination by Stardock customers.
MyColors is a digital distribution platform for themes developed by Stardock.It allows users to skin the Windows graphical user interface.Sets of themes have been made in partnership with GM, Ford, HP, Dell, the NHL, NBA, and NCAA.
Microsoft did also release a Windows Media Player visualization and skin at one time [when?]. The skin was released in Experience Pack for Tablet PC and was available for free, [18] but the installer only installed it on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition devices, for which it was licensed.
The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplistic look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provide most options and features available in modern media players. Variations of the original MPC and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack .
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The name still exists within the files of the visualization. Some of the previous Windows Media Player skins that were in Windows Me was removed entirely. Musical Colors was not included with Windows Media Player version 9 on clean installs of Windows XP starting with Service Pack 2, but is retained if the player is upgraded from version 8 to 9.