List of Horrible and Unmoddable Programs

Avoid these! Hopefully there's some alternative though, right?

Okay, the reality is that most programs are unmoddable. But here's a number of them that I've run into that puke when I try to crack them open with a resource editor, for whatever reason. I've provided alternatives where possible.

• Skype. This evil jerk silently exits after a second or two if you touch its resources, even though everything works fine. Interestingly, the Mac version doesn't. Ventrilo responds very well to modding, however!
• Steam. Despite being skinnable, it's religiously possessive of its icons. And don't bother trying to set file permissions to stop it—it will quarantine your modifications as .old files and carry on its merry way, unless you remove permissions for the entire resources directory, in which case it will complain and probably explode. I ended up just putting the icons back after each update. Cutely, Stardock's alternative, Impulse, isn't properly skinnable; it replaces the UI graphics on update.
• MorphVOX. I guess a company named "Screaming Bee" kind of belongs in the $2.00 DVD bin, huh? Sadly, it's better than any other program in the market for toying with. Replacing the icon with a byte-size match in a hex editor causes it to crash on startup. Great.
• Poser. It's so big you wouldn't want to, but weird things happen if you edit its .PSD files (WHAT THE HELL WHY DO YOU STORE YOUR UI IN PSD FILES) with the wrong version of Photoshop. Assuming they're even generated by a version of Photoshop... But, yeah, for extra bonus points, SysInternals reports that Poser doesn't even load these things into memory. No wonder Poser =< 7 was so slow! (...at least the icons are moddable.)