Skins plain don't work.

[Amerok]

I click the download skin link on the official page, and it gives me the "you sure you want to install this?"stuff, i click yes and the skin stays Winamp Classic when i switch to it, ive tried with a efw skins, the only one that works is one i got off of another site that i had to put right into the skins directory, any help please? I'd greatly appreciate it.

[pjn123]

Noting with the skins is wrong... The .wal files isn't being downloaded correctly from winamp.com (ex: Skin should be 500kb but your file is only 50kb). I'll give you the easy answer for technical support... Call your ISP(internet service provider).

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by pjn123
Call your ISP(internet service provider).

Dumbest answer ever.

Lets try something that actually has a basis in reality.


1) do you have winamp full installed?, did you perhaps upgrage a full install using the lite installer? only full supports modern skins, if you don't have full installed, get it here.
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/...usic-7plus.exe

When installing ensure you don't uncheck modern skin support from the installer options.

2) try clearing your temp internet cache out.

3) try saving the skin directly, right click the download link, choose save target as, save to your skins directory, usually located at c:\program files\winamp\skins
Start winamp, press alt+s to open skin browser, choose your skin.

4) try a different browser, there have been problems downloading and installing skins from here using Internet Explorer, IE in SP2 occasionally fudges the MIME types on .wal/.wsz and downloads the incorrectly, a decent browser like Firefox or Opera can usually help get you around this.

If non of the above work, then you need to start providing system specs, list of installed plugins etc etc, even try doing a full clean uninstall/re-install.

Details can be found here..
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#specs

I can almost 100% say for definate phoning your ISP isn't the answer.

[Tram]

I am having a similar problem, except it's only some skins, not all..

I am trying to get MMD3 to work as it is my favorite skin, but I am having no luck.. Other skins seem to work fine..

[Wallstormer]

Try disabling the User Account Controls from the Control Panel. I wasn't able to get the skins to change on my computer either, but then I noticed that the little notifier for UAC popped up every time I tried to install a skin. If it sits too long then it just rejects the change and saves that preference, I think. Disabling the UAC and restarting the computer did the trick for me.

Hope that helps!

[shadowmajestic]

first, sorry for waking up an old topic. but

Originally Posted by Wallstormer

Try disabling the User Account Controls from the Control Panel. I wasn't able to get the skins to change on my computer either, but then I noticed that the little notifier for UAC popped up every time I tried to install a skin. If it sits too long then it just rejects the change and saves that preference, I think. Disabling the UAC and restarting the computer did the trick for me.

Hope that helps!

there's an easier/better and most of all, safer way to achieve this.
as disabling UAC should be a big nono for everyone (even for the more experienced users).
and if possible, should NEVER be suggested for anyone (people tend to forget to enable it after)

a better way is, go to your winamp directory (program files/ or program files (x86) for 64bit users).
right click the skins folder, click properties, security tab, edit rights. give 'users/pcname' full rights.

done. This way you at least wont create a big security hole for just a skin

[p2dr]

a better way is, go to your winamp directory (program files/ or program files (x86) for 64bit users).
right click the skins folder, click properties, security tab, edit rights. give 'users/pcname' full rights.

Worked for me. Thanks.

[TBSPW]

i have the exact same problem and ive tried everything, any help would be appreciated