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A small chink in Fences' armor in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Fences is a brilliant idea and a very good product. I look forward to using the professional edition. One issue though is that as good as it is to have your stuff be organized and turned into a usable workspace, when you open up Explorer or any other file manager that organization turns to soup. So if I have 20 cpp files in a project pluse 30 image files for a separate project, I go right back to hunting and pecking for the right file when trying to use an 'open' dialogue.</

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Further update: MSI has been surprisingly good. I must be incredibly jaded because I saw a lengthy form I had to fill out to get any support (what's your bios revision, what's your ram brand, double sided, etc, etc). I thought I'd get blown off as is often the case. Instead I got a response and an actual email conversation. They said they'd contact Nvidia about the problem. I'll take that as a quite reasonable version of "we're working on it, hang in ther

Reply to Suggestion in ObjectDock Stardock Forums

A corollary to the Beta comment. Most software releases are "operationally good". That is they work as intended and have fairly rare bugs pop up on occasion. Showstoppers tend to get stomped on quickly, but minor annoyances may stick around for the life of the product. The only place where this isn't normal is in critical applications such as flight guidance systems. Because someone's life or incredible amounts of money are at stake, it better wo

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Update: Turns out all the product key issues had to do with the "upgrade" scheme. While I was used to just having a "do you have an old disk" check, now it appears that the software makes a check for pre-existing installations *even when doing a format and clean install*. I don't know how that works, but it does. The workaround was to install an upgrade of 7 *over* a preexisting installation of 7 and the product cheking accepted that. So now I've got a "worki

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="9" id="2420499"]Next time, get it off MSDNAA instead [/quote] Not in a CS course and apparently only the Business department is signed up (???). I had acces when I was in Wa. state. Car guy, what brand card is your GTS and can you give me the exact driver number. Is it 190.7?

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Update: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/24/windows-7-student-upgrade-hell/ So it finally made it to almost-CNN. Apple blogger, but what the hey. As for me? I got a successful DVD burn in three tries and two downloads. I got the installation finished aaaand? <

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="5" id="2417004"]This is why I always get the DVD. Even though I got the download, they gave me the option of getting a disk as well, so I did that. IMHO Digital River has always been a bit questionable. I use them, but I have to be very proactive at making sure everything gets done right whenever I do. Their 100% unnecessary "wrapper" around the Win7 install reminded me of how poor they are. I'd probably blame Digital River more for this issue than Micro

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Update. The ISO workaround worked and I have a valid 7 64 bit install disc (at least as far as I can tell... I'm trusting the people saying that the extracted files' checksum is valid and the file sizes compared between 32 bit and successful 64 bit extractions are equal).

Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="vStyler" reply="1" id="2416941"]Looks like a pain in the rear. [/quote] Tell me about it. I'm really working to bite my tongue and not spout invective and diatribes all over the place. So much for this "Microsoft turning over a new leaf" thing. At least for me.

Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Microsoft is offering Windows 7 to students for $30 for a limited time. HOWEVER. As far as I can tell from social.technet, Microsoft and Digital River messed up the OS packaging. Customers who are currently running XP or Vista 32 bit will be unable to successfully extract and run the Win7 64 download download, even if they intend to format a partition and install. Note: You do NOT get an ISO with this purchase. Customers run

Reply to No, I work at Stardock – really! in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[e digicons]:D[/e] "Oh I can't go in? Ok. I'll come back later with the right permission." - Owner of the shop.

Reply to Modding on a Saturday night in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Hmm, is Blender--which I've only played with a bit--capable of exporting to 3ds or whatever filetypes Elemental accepts?

Reply to Organize Your PC Desktop with Stardock's Fences 1.0 in OS Customization Stardock Forums

Addendum: The above would be a really great workflow addition. I hate Photoshop CS3's Bridge program. Mostly useless. Being able to browse around *on* my desktop to check where I am, what images are where, and what I need to do would be brilliant.

Reply to Organize Your PC Desktop with Stardock's Fences 1.0 in OS Customization Stardock Forums

Feature request: The ability for a fence to create a "view" into a folder in a different location and the ability to manipulate material just as I could in the folder itself. Reasoning: The material itself is on another hard disk for redundancy and storage reasons. However I daily work with the material (visual photoshop like stuff) and would like not to have an extra folder open dragging around. I don't want to put all 30+ folders on the desktop as that creates

Reply to Windows 7 SKU clarifications in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Thank you Rob. That's about what I needed to know.

Reply to Windows 7 is... happy? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]for some reason having a child, that can't pronounce the words she is trying to use, make a decent looking slide show with fairly epic music completely destroys any credit that commercial might have for me.[/quote] Haven't seen the little kiddos that populate Bellevue and Redmond public schools, have you? Many are scary smart.

Reply to Windows 7 SKU clarifications in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheDude37" reply="2" id="2373926"]I doubt that they will give you seperate keys for 64 bit and 32 bit since they are on the same disc. Why would you want to run 32 bit anyway? [/quote] Because you don't remove one carabiner to hook onto the next rope without ensuring that your backup is secured. Simple as that.

Windows 7 SKU clarifications in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Under the assumption that a major change in computing will inevitably bite me in the ass... For retail versions of Windows 7, are both 32 and 64 bit included? Can a user switch between them? For OEM versions of Windows 7, are both 32 and 64 bit included? And can a user swith between those? How are the hardware manufacturers managing this? (I'm eying a Dell XPS laptop)

Reply to Costs of doing business that are still surprising in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

All you're describing, Brad, is the formalization of human relationships that comes over time (200+ years) in a representative democratic power structure. Corrupt people bend the rules. More rules stop them from being bad. Corrupt people bend the rules, etc etc.

Reply to Looking for a critique in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Still, the ability for a small-timer to implement the wrapper without too much hoo-ha is great. I would seriously consider re-purchasing the Evochron Renegade space sim if the author considers offering it up here. Likewise Eschalon.

Reply to Impulse: Phase 3 Preview in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Augh!! Doggone it Brad, I was about 30% done downloading Supreme Commander (a 3 day process so far) and made the terrific mistake of leaving my computer to take care of errands. Cisco Clean Access reset my internet connection and I lost the entire download. This is the seventh time I've tried to download the doggone game and I'm getting really REALLY tired of it. While I like the idea of Impulse, I've wasted my money in this case. And while I like the i

Reply to Impulse: Phase 3 Preview in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Likewise have had trouble with downloads. I'm very very glad to hear I can make them portable. My internet connection goes through Cisco's Clean Access agent and can sometimes be interrupted to re-authenticate. I download in little fearful bits of time and hope to high heaven that I don't lose my connection lest Impulse choke and I have to start all over again. I've gotten one full download that somehow corrupted and wouldn't install to Vista (even though I followed in

Reply to Fences Video Demo in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Frogboy, I didn't get a chance to post earlier, but a feature that would really get me excited about the product is the ability to create fences inside a folder. It's not my desktop that gets cluttered, it's all the junk I have in my download folder. Most everything else has its own folder. I'm pretty organized about getting things onto another physical drive and keeping stuff split up into individual projects.

Reply to Elemental: EARLY test of the engine in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

If you're referring to the black outline graphics being placeholders, I actually like them. They remind me of Inkscape art. Though they're missing a little "verve" or some spark to draw everything together, I like it a lot.

Reply to Copy of support ticket message re: software archiving problems in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

With you there. But I'll say it again, I was told that you can make the archives OS independent if you download straight to archive and not install. And it shouldn't matter in either case because I installed to Vista 32 then and Vista 32 now. Or at least tried to. Edit: I'm pretty frustrated. I don't have much recourse as my 11 Impulse titles show. Can't get a refund and any ranting threats of "I'll never buy from you again" are pretty empt