MyColors Free Registrations, and all freeware applications
Friday, September 26, 2008 by DorkCoffeez | Discussion: MyColors
All MyColors free themes and all Stardock freeware now have a registration built into them. Here is how it works now:
Go to Impulse, and then to the store. Click on Desktop then choose to 'sort by price'.
You will see Diamond come up as a free download.
Click the free button and then on the next page select 'Add to Impulse'.
Impulse will ask you for your email if you do not have one, or it should prompt you for the one you are logged in with. Either way hit Register or enter your current email and hit register. Impulse will then download Diamond for you while creating your Diamond registry. You will find the free download under MyDesktop. Upon successful completion an email containing download and registration information will be sent to you via the address you have entered.
This is the current answer to the "Free Stuff" questions we have been getting. You will be seeing all manor of free items migrating their way from the normal Impulse windows into the store portion of Impulse. All free MyColor suites will also go to this method of registration as well. If you have any questions please let me know!
Seabass
Reply #22 Monday, November 10, 2008 3:16 PM
The problem I had is that the free Mycolors themes were downloaded and installed when I first started Impulse. I did have Mycolors as a result of Sins of a Solar Empire. I got Green, Quest and Diamond as a result of them being shown as a free download within impulse. I did not register them through the store and have gone back now and was able to do that with Green and Quest. The Diamond one is not available in the store and I cannot regiater it. Impulse shows an update to it is available but I cannot install it because I don't have a registration. Any ideas?
Tark
Reply #23 Monday, November 10, 2008 4:26 PM
There seem to be some adjustments going on with the staging. Pause here and I will update in the 'morrow when I know more. Sorry for the trouble.
Reply #24 Monday, November 10, 2008 10:59 PM
all good my end on the green my colors theme thx
Reply #25 Monday, November 10, 2008 11:42 PM
Thank you the program for MyColors Diamond theme is back in the store and I was able to get a registration and the update is in process as I type this.
Tark
Reply #26 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:16 AM
I installed the new Think Green this morning and now the windowblind is all fuzzy/pixelated like some were before the last windowblind update.
Reply #27 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:56 AM
I glad to hear the staging is fixed for you guy. Please let me know if anyone still has troubles with the registration/download. Things should be corrected now.
Reply #28 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:57 AM
Try deleting the theme and then redownloading it. What you are seeing is the encryption. Also if you have WindowBlinds installed make sure that you have updated it as well as MyColors.
Reply #29 Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:29 AM
Someone HELP! I have been a Object Desktop Ultimate subscriber for many years. I received the email about the free MyColors theme that was available for subscibers "Encounter". I went to Impulse, Desktop and it wasn't listed. I followed all of the directions listed by SeaBass and to no avail. It is not even listed in the Store-Desktops section to even register it. I went to Wincustomize and checked the settings for my registered products and all of my MyColors products have a different registration number than is listed in Impulse. What goes?????? "Encounters is listed in the Wincustomize settings, but the number is not accepted in Impulse for new registrations. Something needs to be straightened out. This is worse than edealing with the CIA.
DoodleBop
Reply #30 Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:49 AM
Doodlebop - If you haven't done so already, please email support@stardock.com and start a trouble ticket. They will be able to assist you.
Reply #31 Monday, November 17, 2008 11:46 AM
Doodle - Please right click on the serial number listed for Encounter. Then select 'remove..'. After that hit the 'Add Registration' button at the bottom and copy and paste in the information I have emailed to you from support@stardock.com. Let me know if you still have the same troubles. I have also included a stand alone link just in case. However it is best to have the theme downloaded by Impulse.
Reply #32 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:29 PM
You can download Impulse, which in turn can download the latest MyColors and the themes for you. You will see what I mean when you try it out.
You can find information about it here: impulsedriven.com
And you can download it through here: http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulse_setup_full.exe
Let me know if you have questions.
Reply #33 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:45 PM
First, sorry for my english, I'm a french user. I try to register MyColors Diamond Desktop. I click on "FREE" then on "Add To Account" then on "Register" with my Email Address and I get the following message: "The product you are requesting is not available for free registration". I'd like to download the update for Diamond Desktop but I can't without registration. Can you help me? Thanks in advance.
Reply #34 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:02 PM
Thankis very much SeaBass for the clarification.
Reply #35 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:07 PM
I was able to replicate this issue and reported it up. Appears to be a new bug with the update of Impulse. We should have this cleared as soon as possible. Sorry for the trouble.
Reply #36 Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:37 PM
Thanks for your answer, Seabass. What a quick fix. I have my registration now. Congratulations to Stardock for great software and great support.
Reply #37 Friday, November 21, 2008 4:42 PM
Thank you very much for the compliment. As an update to the matter the free section should be getting updates in the very near future. Some demos will be available through specific sites (by product) still of course but updates are still a matter for Impulse. So for products like Login Studio and the MyColors themes even if you do not have Impulse this is still the best wait to maintain even the free applications.
Not to be confusing but people will also notice free items when they are Object Desktop subscribers. However these free things are NOT listed in the free section but in the MyDesktop section as they are a free portion to the subscription. To clarify that with an example: Object Dock (not OD Plus) it a free download you will find in MyDesktop when you are an Object Desktop subscriber. This is just a matter of convince as the free version can still be downloaded from the product page as per normal. It is just a small courtesy/tip of the hat to our subscribers.
I wanted to clarify that here as I have seen some of this question in other portions of the the forums and this post of mine is stickied. If you have more questions just let us know!
Reply #38 Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:03 PM
I have the absolute latest version of Impulse, but I don't have a "Store" tab at the top. How do I get it to show up? I've tried reinstalling already... that didn't work.
Edit: I managed to get to that MyColors thing, installed that, et cetera... and now Theme Manager has vanished completely. I should have stated that first. I wanted the latest version of Theme Manager, I had 2.something but it always asked for a serial so I couldn't update. Now I don't even see it in Impulse at all, let alone the version I had previously.
Reply #39 Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:15 PM
The store section is now know as Explore,first tab on the left.
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Reply #21 Monday, November 10, 2008 2:33 PM
Think Green should now be showing up in the Impulse store. If you still have troubles after trying to register the free product please contact support@stardock.com with the serial number you have been issued. Please do not post even free item serial numbers in the forums.