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Corky_O

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Reply to Windows Vista Beta 2 is NOW available!!! in New Releases WinCustomize Forums

though Nakor says he's already ho-hum about Vista after 10 months of it It still needs a lot of optimization, but most of the old contols seem to be there, with quite a few bells and whistles besides. Assuming MS optimizes it well in RC1 and final, it

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Reply to Server Upgrade Completed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Looks like request time is increasing in many cases on my end. The pages seem to load quicker than in the past (when they load fast). I sense the falling back to slow speed loads and errors may be on the horizon if the issue is not discovered.

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Reply to Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0.... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

If I am understanding the situation correctly, we will be able to run Vista fine, but that the GPU may prevent multiple programs from accessing the 3D capabilities at once. This may show up as a decrease in performance in either the Windows GUI (drawing the Aero images), or the performance of the additional programs attempting to access the GPU for the 3D functionality (i.e., games, video editing, and/or graphic intensive programs). Again, that is what I got from the article a

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Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0.... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I do not know if this has been posted yet or not, but it would seem that Microsoft has discovered the need to rethink the current display driver model that is due to ship with Vista, which may require users to invest in a new graphics card in the near future. As one who owns a notebook and who knows the lag time between release to manufacturers and public availability of a notebook graphics card (if available in the correct form factor at all), I find myself wondering about the viabil

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Reply to How to install a screensaver in Windows XP WinCustomize Forums

Try downloading and running the "SCR" fix from here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm That should give you back the functionality. If you have issues with the icons in "C:\WINDOWS\System32" folder not being correct for the screensaver files, you can try creating a "DefaultIcon" (REG_SZ) sub-key under "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\scrfile", and give it a "%1" value. Note - this sub-key is not there under a clean insta

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Reply to Server Upgrade Completed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Is there any way we can keep the hordes out so it stays this fast always?.. Pre-order the upcoming, bleeding-edge, lightning fast servers with oodles of memory and hard drive space now, Brad!!!

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Reply to Server Upgrade Completed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Better response time in general, and specifically in the main forum page load. I am seeing a bit slower speed (compared to main page load) in loading a selected post, or personal page, but nothing that would be considered inordinately slow (currently they load in 5 seconds or less on cable broadband). Well done!

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Reply to Tips for new users! in New Users WinCustomize Forums

Bigboy3457, As Bichur indicates for CursorXP, you will need the appropriate program installed for any given skin (with the exception of Wallpapers, and perhaps miscellaneous icons). Once you have the program installed, you can download content (skins and/or themes) for that program and usually double-click the downloaded file (with the correct file extension as indicated in the opening comment of this post). For some information on successful downloading procedures, yo

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Reply to Having a Blonde Moment, or Two in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

BarbieDahl, Having used Bryce 5 & 5.5, I would recommend getting a good understanding of the following: 1 - The mathmatical expression of location in the scene (explained in a basic way in the tutorial). This will allow you to place your objects in relation to each other using the "Attributes" dialog (accessible using the little "A" icon displayed when any object is selected). 2 - Boolean objects (these are the complex objects that result from combining two or mor

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Reply to PC vs. Mac in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Therefore, when I compare a Dell to a Mac, I have to add at least an additional 2,000 dollars to the Dell (Photoshop, and the like). Therefore, when it comes down to my OBJECTIVE (YEAH RIGHT!) price comparison, the Mac is cheaper. At least 1,750 dollars cheaper. This does not sound correct. You would need to spend about $100 to upgrade

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Reply to PC vs. Mac in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

It also will sport a quite remarkable pricetag of $450 I do not believe microsoft has released the prices yet, so that information is conjecture at this point. The estimated prices for the new Office 2007 are here http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/info/pricing.ms

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Reply to PC vs. Mac in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Microsoft may well be stepping in the right direction with Vista. The "Vista Ultimate" SKU will include: - Media Center code - Tablet PC code - DVD editing and burning software - Networking configuration options in one panel - Code that will read the hardware and scale the OS to optimize performance for the given machine - A driver model that makes use of the 3D capabilities of current video adapters - Anti-spyware in Windows Defender, a

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Reply to PC vs. Mac in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Now that I just have to disagree with .. Just because something has a nice outer appearance and a high price tag it doesn't always make it better Just for the record, I was not referring to looks and price tag, I was speaking about components. My meaning was that you could build (or purchase) a machine with quality components, or bad c

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Reply to PC vs. Mac in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

I think having two machines - one PC with Windows and associated programs, and one Mac with the OS X and associated programs would be fun. One could learn both platforms and associated programs, and would therefore be able to benefit from both worlds (or sides of the fence). They are both just machines (or an OS and programs on a machine) and of course, you get what you pay for in machines - whether it be a car, an appliance, a shop tool, or a computer. If you keep your tools

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