Christmas is one of the top skinning holidays on WinCustomize. We have a bunch of Christmas and winter holiday themes for a complete holiday transformation of your desktop. WindowBlinds skin, cursors, wallpaper, animated wallpapers.... you can usually find it with a quick search. We'll also be featuring more holiday themes to make it easy, and today we'll start the season with a few of our favorites.

If you have a favorite holiday or winter theme, let us know in the comments!

Christmas Holidays V.2 (WindowBlinds)

Santa Claus (CursorFX)

Christmas Ornament Countdown (Desktop Gadget)

Christmas Stars (DeskScapes)

Snowman in Winter Ice

We have had some really awesome CursorFX themes added to the WinCustomize galleries over the past week, and I wanted to highlight a few. One is even the first CFX theme they have created, and it turned out great. We love to see new people submitting so be sure to check them out below!

MODEL-6IX by BONEHEADdb

fly by NIGHT by pelaird

Light Load by Gemmee

Can you believe we are already in November? Has the cooler weather hit your area yet? We had lots going on in October here on WinCustomize as Halloween is always a popular month. 

Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed!

Stardock News:

Groupy v1.44 is Now Available

Featured changes:

• Groupy crashes if turned off quickly after being turned on
• Windows with a blank caption now paints the close tab button correctly
• If windows are not responding it should no longer leave the group when moved
  • It cannot be resized though or added to a group
• Tweaks that address an issue with leftover tab bars on-screen in edge cases

Community Posts You Might Have Missed:

Happy Halloween! Is your Desktop Spooky Yet?

Scientists Located and Destroyed an Asian Giant Hornet Nest Over the Weekend

Congrats to our Newest WinCustomize Journeyman....BONEHEADdb!

WC Community Question: Do You Customize Your Icons?

Check Out These Halloween Mouse Cursors for Windows 10!

Customize your Windows Icons with IconPackager

Another video game movie is on its way and it seems less than faithful to the source material

New and Updated Skins, Themes, and Wallpapers:

Model 5ive (CursorFX)

The_Witcher (DeskScapes)

Circle Beauty (Wallpaper)

Country Road Oct (Wallpaper)

Christmas Ornament Countdown (Desktop Gadget)

DC-27G (Desktop Gadgets)

Emperon 5 (WindowBlinds)

Tropicali (WindowBlinds)

Over the past month we've featured many Halloween themed skins of all types, and even focused a bit more on animated wallpapers for DeskScapes and cursor themes for CursorFX.

Halloween is less than a week away, so we'll finish off our Halloween postings this month with a look at our favorite WindowBlinds skins!

Bat O Ween

Bad Jack

Halloween BoO

We're getting closer to Halloween and we've been featuring many of the fantastic Halloween skins we have here on WinCustomize. I was browsing through the CursorFX gallery this morning and noticed another Halloween themed cursor, so I thought CursorFX would be fun to spotlight this week. 

Use CursorFX to easily change your Windows mouse cursor to one of thousands available on WinCustomize!

Toxic Halloween

Black Widow Halloween

Pumpkin

Creepers

Halloween

Let's all give a big congrats to our newest Journeyman....BONEHEADdb! BONEHEAD has been a member of WinCustomize since 2004 and has shared many skins with the community including tons of great CursorFX themes. 

With his recent return to skinning we thought of no better time than now to recognize his contributions. Congrats from all of us at WinCustomize!

We're getting closer to Halloween and I've been digging through WinCustomize looking for some of the best animated wallpapers for DeskScapes. There are a bunch to choose from, and you have a favorite be sure to post it the comments below!

Don't forget we have our October desktop screenshot thread ready, so let's see those Halloween desktops!

Spooky Halloween Forest with Bats

Halloween Scenery

4K Smoky Skull

Pumpkin by Night

Halloween Night

We have finally hit Fall and now we start our way through the holiday season! First up, we have Halloween coming up and we've been busy getting some Halloween wallpapers and other spooky themes up. We're also featuring a ton of Halloween skins this month so be sure to check the daily feature.

Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed!

Stardock News:

Curtains v1.1 is Now Available

"The newest version of Curtains adds a major new feature for Explorer background transparency and blur effects. While the new option only comes standard with certain styles in the app, users can edit other styles and apply the blur and transparency effects themselves for further customization. 

A new option to extend the title bar ribbon in Explorer windows also adds an extra layer of customization for those who enjoy editing every detail of their Windows experience. v1.1 also introduces several quality of life improvements and increased style application speed."

Community Posts You Might Have Missed:

WC Community Question: Do You Use Desktop Wallpapers on Your Mobile Devices?

New CursorFX Themes from BONEHEADdb!

The Mandalorian Season 2 Official Trailer!

A History of WindowBlinds

WC Community Question: WindowBlinds Skins - Minimal or Wild?

Getting an Early Start on a Halloween Desktop!

Netflix Offers Certain Shows and Movies for Free to Non-Subscribers

New Skins, Themes, and Wallpapers:

Astor (WindowBlinds)

Candy Corn (CursorFX)

Spooky Halloween Forest with Bats (DeskScapes)

Scary Pumpkin (Wallpaper)

9x Start (Start10 buttons)

RAM (Curtains)

We are rapidly approaching October, and that means it's getting closer to Halloween! I recently asked the WinCustomize community about skinning holidays and Halloween came up as one of the top answers. We've always had great contributions from skinners with Halloween themes, so it's no surprise people enjoy these. 

Since we're just over a month out, I thought it's a wonderful time to start featuring more Halloween skins, and we've been working to get more Halloween themed wallpapers also.

Here's a few skins to get your started!

Bat O Ween (WindowBlinds)

Halloween Night (DeskScapes animated wallpaper)

Creepers (CursorFX)

Dark Halloween Pumpkin (Wallpaper)

Fall official starts tomorrow! Hopefully, this means some cooler weather will be headed our way. Although we don't the seasonal color changing down here, I'd love to see some pics from our community who do get to see it.

Otherwise, some of us must be happy with just seeing seasonal colors on the desktop, and that's what todays post is about. Here's some static and animated wallpapers for the new season!

Pumpkin Patch

Yellow Fall Leaves

Autumn Leaves in the Breeze

Wind Blowing in a Wheat Field