<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>WinCustomize Forums » RSS Feed » DesktopX Tutorials Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/Wincustomize/forum/156</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In DesktopX Tutorials</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:10:54 AM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:10:54 AM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/67611</comments><description><![CDATA[Creating widgets with DesktopX 3 is, relatively speaking, a snap. Today I'm going to walk you through how to create a widget. It's actually going to be a pretty complicated one (for me anyway) but it will hopefully show you the ropes on how to create fully featured widget.  The widget I want to create is one I've been looking for for a long while - A disk space meter that lets the user configure which drive they are monitoring.      Step 1: Load up the DesktopX development environment.    ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/67611</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/67611</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 6:07:30 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-12-17T06:07:30-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>DesktopX 3: Creating a widget</title></item><item><author>RomanDA</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/151538</comments><description><![CDATA[ 	 		 		 		  	 	 		   Step-by-Step Tutorials   		 		   #8 - 		Tool-Tip Replacement   	 	 		 		 		 A series 		by RomanDA  	 	   Listing of other DX Tutorials:  Click here   Today's Lesson: &quot;Tool-Tip Replacement&quot;      		 In this lesson we will 		make a replacement for the built in Tool-tip, one that can be made any 		color, shadow, transparency, and have it re-size automatically.    This is not going to be a simple STEP-BY-STEP, I'm assuming if you are this advanced into DX, I don't...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/151538</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/151538</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 9:28:25 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-04-26T09:28:25-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Learning DX Step-By-Step - #8</title></item><item><author>RomanDA</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/328635</comments><description><![CDATA[This one is going to have a lot fo code but I am not going to go over it all line by line.&nbsp; What I will do is to cover each function in basics.&nbsp;  I will list ALL the new code here in one block, then go over each section one by one below it.    Code: vbscript  	  Dim  BDate,BMonth,BDay 	 &#39;--&nbsp;  for  INI  FILE  	  Dim  IniName, IniCnt, IniTitle(100), IniDetails(100) 	  Const  ForWriting =2 :  Const  ForReading = 1 :  Const  ForAppending = 8  	 &#39;---  End  INI 	  	  Sub  Ob...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/328635</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/328635</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 9:29:42 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-02-27T21:29:42-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Countdown to disaster - Part 5</title></item><item><author>wc2005</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/410865</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi, everybody!&nbsp;Please look at my code a little:    Code: vbscript  	  Sub  Object_OnScriptEnter 	 &nbsp;Object.Text=&quot; SHADOW EFFECT TEST &quot; 	  End   Sub  	  Sub  Object_OnMouseEnter 	 &nbsp;Object.States(&quot;  &quot;).SetShadow True, 10, 255, 0, 0,  rgb (255,0,0) 	  End   Sub  	  Sub  Object_OnMouseLeave 	 &nbsp;Object.States(&quot;  &quot;).SetShadow False, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 	  End   Sub    I want to&nbsp;create some text effect for my desktop. When&nbsp;my mouse is over that text...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/410865</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/410865</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 1:42:03 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-08-02T01:42:03-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Help me with SetShadow...</title></item><item><author>datdeanna</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/410341</comments><description><![CDATA[I pay yearly for my subscription but the better part of the last 2 years I have been unable to utilize DesktopX because of the weather widget malfuntion. I don&#39;t have time to find solutions to a problem that should not be mine. I don&#39;t have enough time to learn the software on my own to do list, this is why I pay for a subscription. NONE of my emails to authors have EVER been answered when I have asked for help on this. I couldhave swore that I read that all the skins, etc were required ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/410341</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/410341</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 3:34:15 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-07-25T15:34:15-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>beyond frustrated with weather widgets</title></item><item><author>RomanDA</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/145066</comments><description><![CDATA[	 		 			 			 			  		 		 			   Step-by-Step Tutorials   			 			   			Tutorial Listing   		 		 			 			 			 A series 			by RomanDA  		 		 						 These Tutorials are designed 			to help anyone who wants to learn DesktopX.				This page will be updated as I add more Tutorials, so WATCH this to see 			when its updated.  			  			 				  				 #1 - 				Hello World    				  				 #2 - 				Folder Object    				  				 #3 - 				Attack of the Clones   				  				 #4 - 				Scripting 101  - (added 2/25/2007) 				...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/145066</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/145066</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 2:33:51 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-06-19T14:33:51-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Step-By-Step Tutorial Listing</title></item><item><author>RomanDA</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/154052</comments><description><![CDATA[ 	 		 		 		  	 	 		   Step-by-Step Tutorials   		 		   #10 - Hide 		& Seek   		 	 	 		 		 		 A series 		by RomanDA  		 	    Listing of other DX Tutorials:  Click here   Today&#39;s Lesson:  &quot;Hide & Seek&quot;       This will be the last in this series of Tutorials. I hope you have enjoyed them, and managed to get something out of them. In this lesson we will do some basic DX operations on one object from another. We will cover the following:    	  HIDE/SHOW one object by clicking 	on...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/154052</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/154052</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:19:35 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-06-19T09:19:35</pubDateParsed><title>Learning DX Step-By-Step - #10</title></item><item><author>PuterDudeJim</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/334889</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hello DX fans!&nbsp; I have recently been asked by several people as to how they can change my themes to use on their systems. I am going to try to explain my system, if you care to use my system on your machine, it will be very easy to use my themes, and alter them to your own purposes.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Firstly let me say that writing articles/tutorials is not my forte. But I think I can get the message across. I always keep my icons hidden, so I can see my wa...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/334889</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/334889</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 4:29:29 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-06-04T16:29:29-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Using My Themes</title></item><item><author>wc2005</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407928</comments><description><![CDATA[Good morning, everybody!  I really love the reflection effect of ObjectDock icons, so I want to know if&nbsp;there is&nbsp;a way to create the reflection effect for DesktopX objects?  Thanks, guys.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/407928</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407928</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 6:33:30 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-04-25T06:33:30-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Reflection effect for DesktopX object</title></item><item><author>aceuk</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407759</comments><description><![CDATA[If the systray does not work in Win 7 pro, how would I go about creating something that would enable me to remove a memory stick safeely from a USB.  Thanx  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/407759</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407759</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 3:53:51 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-04-17T15:53:51-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Safely Remove Hardware</title></item><item><author>aceuk</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407711</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi  I&#39;m trying to get the correct shortcut path for Shutdown and Restart.  I have the 2 icon and from a search on google found info that said this was the path.  For Shutdown - C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00  For Restart - C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00  In properties I have the object type as - shortcut / file shortcut  When I click on the icon I get no response.  I should add that I have tried these commands on a shortcut outside of desktopX and they wor...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/407711</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407711</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 7:44:06 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-04-16T19:44:06-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Shutdown &amp; Restart link</title></item><item><author>aceuk</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407372</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi  I want to modify my DX theme by replacing an icon with one that will open the window that shows you all your drives.  You get to it by&nbsp;click on Start then Computer (just so you know what I mean).  What I want is the file (path) for the Computer button so when I click on the icon it will give me that window.  I am running Win7 pro(64)  &nbsp;  Thanx  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/407372</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/407372</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 1:31:37 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-04-12T13:31:37-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>What file opens</title></item><item><author>DrSharl</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/332290</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi, I have an object for the email that is interactive, when no mail is normal and when mail is animated...  &nbsp;  My problem is that i can't configure for my gmail account. In configure Incoming Email Notification, I write the server, login and password, configure in pop3 and check each 1 minute, but not work. I have my Gmail account configure for pop3.  &nbsp;  My question is: How I configure for that works? Any Script?  &nbsp;  Thank you very much.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/332290</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/332290</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 1:54:57 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-04-03T13:54:57-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Gmail in DesktopX</title></item><item><author>LucifersChylde</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/404700</comments><description><![CDATA[I recently purchased the theme Flash by gef. Unfortunately I did not notice that it was made for a 1680x1050 screen resolution. I am working on a laptop with a max res of 1280x800 and the set up will not fit the screen. I found a way to change the size of the objects that run scripts by editing the script itself, but this causes me to lose much of the graphics inside the object i.e. it cuts off part of the meter texts and so forth. I am completely new to all of this and therefore have no clue wh...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/404700</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/404700</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:04:49 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-03-08T09:04:49</pubDateParsed><title>Need help with a theme I downloaded!!!</title></item><item><author>sViz</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/162744</comments><description><![CDATA[     If you haven&rsquo;t heard yet there is a new WinCustomize Wiki site!   I&rsquo;m putting all new tutorials there, but since the site is new it&rsquo;s still a little hard to find (even with internet searches). So, I&rsquo;ve decided to create an index of links to the site and my tutorials.    WinCustomize Wiki  &ndash;  Link     WinCustomize Wiki Tutorials &ndash;  Link  (There are some valuable tuts there for various programs.)        DesktopX Builder Mode for Beginners    P...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/162744</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/162744</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 9:25:06 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-03-07T09:25:06-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>sViz's Tutorial Index</title></item><item><author>Z71kitty</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/405345</comments><description><![CDATA[I tried to install a desktop but it would just hang because of the zip code problem in the weather widget. I deleted the "faulty" desktop theme and now every time I try to open DesktopX 4, it still tries to load the deleted desktop. I cleared the widget cache and anything with the desktop theme name in it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled DesktopX 4. I don't know what else to try. I am new to Object Desktop. Thanks for any help.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/405345</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/405345</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 1:40:02 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-02-16T13:40:02-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Messed up DesktopX</title></item><item><author>Ghaniz786</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/399714</comments><description><![CDATA[hi,  I want to make a worlde clock with 5region&nbsp; at the same time but there is a problem that I want to know how to syc the time&nbsp; from server, how can I loocate the server for time sync. Plz help.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/399714</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/399714</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:34:50 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-11-26T12:34:50</pubDateParsed><title>creating world clock</title></item><item><author>neophil78</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/400557</comments><description><![CDATA[I'm just trying to begin playing with DesktopX for doing Media Players widgets and i get a weird problem to display the Audio Sample rate ...     &nbsp;     As you can see i suceeded to display the Media Bit rate (Kpps) correctly but with the same settings used, the audio sample rate (Khz) won't display anything else than "---"     ...  &nbsp;  Who's about to help me on that ?  &nbsp;  Thanks  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/400557</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/400557</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 9:05:28 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-11-20T09:05:28-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Help needed for DXPlayer functions</title></item><item><author>maxb1967</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/400170</comments><description><![CDATA[how do i use a suite files?(eg.Observation Deck.suite)  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/400170</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/400170</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 2:44:37 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-11-12T14:44:37-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Aboute suite files</title></item><item><author>musitech</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/400156</comments><description><![CDATA[Can anybody help me i dont know how to use it... how can i apply it to my computer im using Windows Xp pro. sp3 i like my desktop to look like windows 7 what will i do?  thank you..  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/400156</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/400156</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 8:25:40 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-11-12T08:25:40-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>i dont know how to use this</title></item><item><author>Doubird</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/394159</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi, I'm looking for a tutorial or script that will just change an object from one color to another. I have a row of tiny red squares on each side of my widget that are red and I would like to make them just flash from red to grey, i guess at normal speed that would be like flashing lights.  Thanks for your help and time.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/394159</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/394159</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 9:29:04 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-10-05T21:29:04-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Tutorial or script needed to change colors repeatedly.</title></item><item><author>k10w3</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/398078</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi everybody -  I was trying to go through sViz's tutorials at Wincustomize Wiki, so I could finally learn to create simple widgets with DX to match my Windowblind themes, and ran into some problems.&nbsp; The first one, the shortcut, was perfect.&nbsp; I got to the digital clock and could make a text clock but couldn't put it on a graphic.&nbsp; By the time I got to the fourth one, where you're suppose to modify/tweak "The Cat" desktop, my desktop was a total mess.&nbsp; First off, "The Cat" ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/398078</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/398078</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 4:51:58 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-09-30T16:51:58-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Help with tutorials</title></item><item><author>sViz</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/140396</comments><description><![CDATA[   [Originally posted at  WinCustomize DesktopX forums]   I know what you’re thinking: "Um, sViz, there’s actually a plug in for this."  That's what I thought too, but it only works for my system time. The point of this tutorial is to make an analog clock that you can set ahead or behind of your system time. This tutorial is based on my ATW! Global Clock widget. It’s been streamlined.   Let’s get started. For this you’ll need 4 objects.  1. hour_hand object 2. minute_hand object 3. s...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/140396</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/140396</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 2:55:09 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-07-31T14:55:09-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Analog Clock Script</title></item><item><author>jeanicobb</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/389119</comments><description><![CDATA[  &nbsp; O d/l a desktop suite but cannot open the folder and it will not install.&nbsp; Do&nbsp; I need certain software?  &nbsp;  Thanks,  Jeani    ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/389119</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/389119</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 7:16:56 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-07-23T19:16:56-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>How do you open/install a Desktop Suite after you download it?</title></item><item><author>JBo796</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/388430</comments><description><![CDATA[So, I just downloaded my first DesktopX Theme called "Microbe".&nbsp; Once I have downloaded the file from Wincustomize.com what do I need to do in order to&nbsp;use it?  &nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/388430</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/388430</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 7:19:31 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-07-21T07:19:31-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>how to use a DesktopX Theme</title></item></channel></rss>