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steve vai "flexable" full album

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here in australia we don't have harmless snakes, most are quite venomous and you just wouldn't wanna pick one up like that here. Glad it was you and not me was bitten by a venomous spider some years ago, so i don't like spiders and snakes. think there's a song there somewhere <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddl

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Albert Collins ...... Molten Ice, full album

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yay Iben, u like alot of the same stuff as me. White buffalo - Ted Nugent.

Reply to There's nothing Wrong with Stardock products in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Another possible cause of my software problems could have been Nortons Internet Security 2004. I recently installed it and immediately had troubles with it, the first being that it would not scan for viruses, and then it refused to let me access the options though no changes had been made to the administrator priveleges etc. I finally got it to run properly after 3 installs, but then various other programs seemed to occasionally malfunction for some r

Reply to Ad-Aware SE 1.06 available.... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the link, Corky, I'll install that straight away. Like many others, I'm sure, I use Adaware and Spybot (with teatime) in conjunction with the MS Antispy, and the only real problem I had was a bug riddled browser hijacker some weeks ago. That was covertly installed with a theme I downloaded and not detected by any of these programs until it was unzipped, so even with all this protection it pays to be careful just the same. In an

Reply to Piracy and Unconventional Wisdom in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

On the subject of activation, it can be a right royal pain in the butt when every attempt made promptly fails. I had one such experience with some DVD software that required online activation and the entering of the CD key. No matter how many times that CD key was correctly entered it was rejected as being invalid. Subsequent contact with the company was completely dissatisfactory and did not resolve the problem. Hence, the software was returned to

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thanks fella's, the problem came down to the CPU fan being temperamental and causing some overheating - fixed now thank goodness. Only cost $25 AU, so I could still afford to buy food, Really thought I'd done something wrong though, or that the WC gods were frowning down upon me for porting MSstyles: ie, bestowing upon me a plague of catastrophes for my si

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Thanks Jafo! Yeah I thought of that, but before and after sweeps with Nortons, Adaware and MS Antispy showed no such presence. After a previous issue with wrapping, I'm very cautious and no longer visit "that" site. No, the style came from another source and appears to be clean (link obtained from WC). It would seem that I do have a hardware problem that's causing issues as other programs are also misbehaving when my system begins to hum more

There's nothing Wrong with Stardock products in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I was quite happy porting a MSstyle that took my fancy, and then, all of a sudden, Skin Studio and Windowblinds just froze. Ctrl, Alt, Delete got me out of that predicament okay, but would either program work a bit later, no, not on yer life. Oh no, it seems I'm off to SDC for clean copies yet again. I dunno, just when it seems I've got everything running right again, with one trouble after another, something else inevitably has to go wrong. That M

Reply to The Skinning World outside Stardock in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Without raising that word questioning parentage to show I'm serious, yeah, it would be nice to have a MSstyles section that WB users can source for their own personal use. Some of these styles look quite good and they'd add variety/options to those who'd like to use them. Furthermore, it would save having to go elsewhere and risk covert paraphanalia being downloaded with your chosen theme, as can often the case when visiting various other sites.

Reply to A "Words to live by" thread.........again. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thou shalt not flame Stardock, Wincustomise or skinners in these forums, or thou shall be banished and spend eternal life in purgatory. A message to those who take pleasure in derogatory comments against the many who strive to bring the majority a great deal of pleasure.

Reply to To All The Kids who Survived... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Born 1953, I grew up in a small village in the south of England, where life was so idyllic as compared to life today. We, my friends and I, did all those thing you speak of and benifitted from not having all the modern day trappings kids depend on today. We had communication that comprised of real sentences and more than just a few abbreviated words strung together. We could also count because we weren't given calculators to do basic arithmetic.(the

Reply to Memory use myths in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Great article Brad - hopefully the detractors will take note and button it. The only app I find making a difference on my machine is Sysmetrix, but not so much in memory usage, moreso in CPU usage. When loaded, my CPU usage seems to fluctuate more (1% ~ 45%), and when unloaded the CPU remains fairly constant below 10%. I don't know if this is normal or not, but on 512mb of RAM, it doesn't seem to cause any problems that I'm aware of. Perhaps someon

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no, werewolf, i have savoy brown 'hellbound train", also: yardbirds "train kept a rollin'". riding the gravy train, pink floyd from wish you were here

Reply to 'Prophet' summons UFO for camera in Community WinCustomize Forums

I dunno, all this UFO scepticism! There are such things, believe me. Mind you, I only saw them when with my first wife, and the only reason they were unidentified is cos they flew at phenomenal speeds and I couldn't make them out from the debris against various walls However, I'm not that arrogant to believe that "we" are the only intelligent lifeforms in the un

Reply to Is Windows ready for desktop use? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I noted that the linked article is filed under humor, so I took it that it was mostly a tongue in cheek way to highlight some of Windows XP's shortcomings, according to another OS user. I guess the crux of the issue is that like any OS, XP has its pros and cons, but if we predominantly use only one OS, we do not notice what may be lacking in relation to others. I have only ever used Win98SE and WinXP, so I have not the qualifications to merit or deme

Reply to Sexing Birds in Community WinCustomize Forums

Actually, the bird on the right is male: "where's my dinner?" cos he's too lazy to get it himself. Sadly, that's a fact in the human domain as well (and I'm male). And Tarkus, your original comment was somewhat out of line, you wouldn't speak to your mother like that, and an apology wouldn't go astray. Surely that would be far better than continuing to trade further unpleasantries. Common decency and respect costs you nothing, so how about

WC browser won't let me login in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

Whilst I can login to WC using IE with saved login information, my WC browser sends an error message that my user name does not exist. Don't understand this, can someone please assist, thank you

Reply to Would you make the "switch"? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

if porn is what you do best, what are you doing here? thought this was a family oriented customisation site

Reply to WC is Fast Today! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've had very few persistent problems since the move and hope that everyone else's WC experiences can be as enjoyable as mine. It's by far the best skin site on the net, and the guys ironing out the various glitches will make it considerably better - unsurpassed in desktop customization. However, admins, skinners and subscribers alike, all help to make this a community to be proud of and recommend to others. I just hope those who are experiencing

Problem downloading suites in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Solutions, please. Thememanager is installed and appears to be working properly, but when downloading suite files via my browser, I get this message: No application is associated with the specified file for this operation. File=\ObjectZipShellFldr.cpp. Line=321 Could someone please offer a solution, thanks you

Reply to Ouf... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I suffer with insomnia and average about 20 - 25 hours sleep a week if I don't use medication, which is not often cos I dont wanna sound like a baby's rattle.

Reply to My Icons have an ugly block of colour around the text in Community WinCustomize Forums

A free prog called Iconoid (no link) also does this if active desktop is disabled.

Reply to A rap across the knuckles? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks guys, I just wanted to be sure as to not step on anyone's toes with CD backups. In this day and age of copyright etc, etc...,it pays to be sure and not infringe. Furthermore, I'm just not that generous to share stuff like this - if anyone wants it, they can make their own efforts to obtain skins of their own choosing. Your advice has been duly noted, Fuzzy Logic, I have 3 HD's now and one is purely for backup. Apart from saving all skin