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Reply to We're back! What happened? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="barasawa9144" reply="26" id="3966023"] Did a lot of tech support on various levels, and this is a perfect example of the first three rules of computing. Rule 1: Backup Rule 2: BACKUP Rule 3: See Rules 1 & 2 Additional advice, have multiple backups, including something offsite, you never know what will happen, and things can happen to entire buildings or more... Now for the stupid story from when I worked tech support

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Reply to We're back! What happened? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="gsawtell58" reply="8" id="3964691"] Trying to access my account takes me in circles. I enter my email address and it sends me a link that supposedly takes me there, but only results in opening another page to enter my email, ad infinitum. Not only that but I was charged twice for an order and I have had zero luck reaching out to remedy this. I am about to initiate a dispute with my bank because nobody responds to my requests. [/quote] You should

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Reply to We're back! What happened? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="twhiting9275" reply="3" id="3964635"] When will we have paid access back? You're still telling users that they have no such account, despite having an account, and refusing to let us login This isn't rocket science here. Fix the paid portions of services first , then 'community' portions after! Better yet, have proper systems</str

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AI Skinning? in OS Customization Stardock Forums

This UI was made by AI. So was this: We are not quite at the point where AI can make the actual WindowBlinds skins themselves. Certainly not in real time. But I think we are getting close to where skinners will be able to make skins much more easily. <

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Tariff and World Trade talk in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

We don't generally allow politics on the forums. With the obvious exception of The Political Machine. The Political Machine - The Power of the Presidency Can Be Yours! Forums But the world trade situation is probably something worth discussing provided people can avoid assuming "the other" are stupid or evil or greedy or whatever. Now, I'm a child of Michigan USA. Detroit area. That means car

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Obviously...the forums are in a bad place in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

Today we were finally able to get most of the forums back from the dead. 2 weeks ago we didn't think we would be able to bring them up. And to be honest, we probably will never get everything back. Fun fact: These are (one of) the oldest continuously running forums on the Internet. When we wrote the forums, back in the late 1990s, we had to do everything from scratch. We built these to replace Usenet. So a few things: If you're forum

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Dealing with slow VMs in Windows 11 in Stardock Blog Stardock Forums

I recently got back into Virtual Machines and found the performance terrible on Windows 11. I couldn't figure out why. There was noticeable input lag and even moving windows around was sluggish. I looked on Reddit and elsewhere and got advice about installing tools or configuring the VM differently but eventually just had a feeling that it had something to do with security on Windows. So after a lot of trial and error I found this option:</

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WinCustomize came "this close" to dying in March 2025 in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

Nearly a month ago now I got a call early in the morning. It was from our IT lead. The Datacenter...was gone. At first I thought we were under some sort of DOS attack. Then I feared the worst, some sort of Ransomware? Were we going to find out that everything was encrypted and gone? We soon learned, no—but in some ways, it was worse. Everything we had at the Datacenter was wiped out. Everything. 34 Terabytes spread across a dozen+ servers of various ages w

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So you want faster Internet eh? in Personal Computing Sins2 Forums

So you want faster internet speeds, eh? So did I. Let me tell you about my journey. It all started with Xfinity offering 1.4Gb/sec internet speeds. I wanted some of that. So I upgraded but noticed that my speeds were still maxing out at around 800Mb/sec. That's pretty good, but a lot less than 1.4Gb/sec. The

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