taxifunk
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What I use is free program THEME MANAGER from Stardock where I was surprised by the same effect when experimenting with that in the beginning. Normally I thought the theme file would already contain all components and then I could just switch. So when recalling what I thought was permanently associated to that already once and forever, after the same questions and processes, it seemed to behave like it had forgotten and tried from scratch. <br /> <br />The suite file itself can look the same but be in 2 diff. stages of a nifty arrangement. What really seems to happen is this - The file itself is first only a rather small but intelligent .ini like one realizing what components that suite CAN consist of at the utmost which your manager, if it is the first time calling that up then compares to which components of that your hardware has downloaded, installed AND saved to permanently belong to that same theme file later if u select to do that. <br /> <br />This way u have a fast overview for which components you CAN integrate later without being forced to make all available ones belong to your version of that theme or downloading all of them, later you download only what you want and create your permanent suite with ANY mix, even things not downloaded that day, but earlier, elsewhere, for instance. <br /> <br />After having downloaded AND APPLIED lets say a windowblinds theme, a beatnik clock skin, a WINAMP skin but not the media player skin for that theme even though both sometimes are offered for the same suite, u can THEN separately call up those 3 by ticking a box to switch them on or off again, even add lets say a mouse cursor theme NOT offered in this at all, <br /> <br />AND NOW you save these selected 4 compononents which are DLed, installed, AND applied to the PERMANENT version of your future own suite. To keep these stages apart reliably in a transparent understandable manner, I call the halloween suite I really want to switch to next time with my desired custom results TAXIFUNKhallow.suite or whatever instead of MyHalloween3, the standard name. I SAVE to a new suite I create by doing this, and when I switch back to that later, it will call up the wb halloween as suggested by the halloween file, only my WINAMP halloween suggested by the file, NOT the media player halloween skin suggested by the file, BUT the superman cursors not belonging the suggestions of the halloween suite file at all. <br /> <br />Still, if I downloaded the media player halloween skin also, but did not switch it on before saving to my custom halloween suite, I can switch that on manually inside the manager without switching to a completely diff. suite. This I would do if suddenly wanting media player instead of winamp player but staying in halloween suite for afterwards etc, yet wanting a non halloween media player skin for functional reasons or something. <br /> <br />It just does not get called up automatically when I switch to TAXIFUNKHallow. suite but it exists. <br /> <br />The TAXIFUNKHallow.suite file has the same symbol an almost empty MyHalloween3.suite shows when its downloaded the 1st time. But it contains all commands, and meanwhile the components for the commands are there, too, plus it knows which ones of those I want and more... <br /> <br />Hope its similar in your program :Smile