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Reply to Details of IE7 Begin to Emerge in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Well, that's where I think there is a problem. It shouldn't be about "winning". There should be plenty of room for everybody in this market. But it's impossible as long as companies refuse to implement the standards set forth by the industry (W3C). Heck! That's what HTML is supposed to be for! What's the use of even using HTML if one company is going to decide on what is standard and what is not? Why don't we just make web pages in .doc format, and let people use Word to read the information! H

Reply to How To Change your log off icon on start menu in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

NOw wait, I just reread your initial question... What log off icon are you talking about? I thought you meant the user icon on the start menu. The only way to change any element in your log off dialog is to use Windowblids to skin it and SkinStudio to edit the skins, or elements of the skins (like the log off dialog) you want to alter.

Reply to How To Change your log off icon on start menu in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

If you just click START and then click on your user icon at the top of the Start menu next to your name, it will open a window that will let you choose a different image. Don't click on Log off, click on the user icon you want to change...

Reply to DesktopX 3.0 Pro is Great but... in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Karmagirl, I thk these screenshots are pretty obvious that they are "themes", but I find "single object" hard to define also. Brad mentionned the Natural Desktop. Isn't that mainly a single object? I mean it's a weather widget but with intense programming that changes your wallpaper according to different conditions. BUt it's still just a single object isn't it? If I made (not that I would or could, I'm talking hypothetically) a calendar object that changes the wallpaper every day, would that b

Reply to How To Change your log off icon on start menu in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

Just click on it.

Reply to Details of IE7 Begin to Emerge in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Adam, I don't know why you specified that tech savy people mostly have XP. It has little to do with the fact that IE7 won't be available for people running pre-XP versoins of Windows. Tech savy or not, these people are going to find out that they have an outdated browser and that the newer version won't work on their machine. Chances are number of these are going to switch to a modern browser that works on their machine. Also, I know a lot of non-tech people who are currently using Firefox

Reply to How do I convert gif to PNG? in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

Zubaz, if you send me your image, I'll see if I can do something for you. patricfontaine at gmail.com

Reply to How do I keep my kids off Google? in Google WinCustomize Forums

I am quite an open minded person about everything, including erotic pictures (porn is different from erotica). But webgizmos, what WE found a way to get out hands on was (1)quite difficult to get in the first place and (2)nothing like the trash you can see on the Net today involving human wastes, animals, children and violence where there is nothing erotic about. Yes, I understand his concern, and would my own boys be a little older I would indeed be very concerned as well. I would totally

Reply to Details of IE7 Begin to Emerge in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Larry, most people aren't techs who change their computer every two years. The life of a PC for average JOe is about 5 years. Heck, I am sort of a techie and my home computer dates from 2001. My wife's computer is also 2001 and it shipped with ME. And even in 2001, there was still a lot of computers sold with ME, not XP. XP was the defacto OS more in 2002 or maybe late 2001 only, and that's only 3 years ago. So, did some Googling around, and what I've found is that, right now, in Mar

Reply to How do I convert gif to PNG? in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

Zubaz, bad news for you: you won't be able to convert that GIF to PNG and get nice smooth transparency. The GIF format is a flat file that probably has some anti-alised colour on the edges. It's part of the image and when you convert it to PNG it will be kept. You could do it somewhat but it will reqiure some work in Photoshop and may not have the best results anyway. You'll need first to change the image from Indexed Color to RGB, then to take the eraser or the lasso tool (with anti-aliased cli

Reply to Details of IE7 Begin to Emerge in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Well, IE7 won't blow FF out of the water. For one, IE7 will only work on XP SP2. I wonder what the stats are right now, but I am pretty sure most Windows users still use pre-XP versions. I personally know a lot of people still using 98, ME and Win2k. Firefox runs on anything (Windows 98, ME, Win2K, XP, Linux, Mac OSX...). I suspect some of these users may switch to Firefox when they see that they can't get an upgrade for IE.

Reply to Google Maps;: Is it as good as mapquest or yahoo? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I personally like MapBlast from Microsoft: Link Display quality isn't as nice as Google, but Google isn't too good in my area. And I prefer Mapblast to MapQuest (bigger maps)

Reply to DesktopX 3 Beta Reports in Beta WinCustomize Forums

DVG: seems that it may be related to DX after all. It would be strange that both you and me had poblems with the scripting engine after installing DX. See post #7.

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Every OS has its strenghs and weeknesses. I recently reinstalled Linux (SimplyMopix), just to see. And I was just totally blown away by the speed. I swear the things runs at least twice, if not 3 times faster than Windows on my old machine (Pentium 4 1.5GHz, 1 Gig of RAM, some old Matrox non-3D video card). I even installed WINE and configured it so now I can run Internet Explorer, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash. Speed for these is comparable to Windows. Software installation is now

Reply to Are Requests Allowed? If So, Then here goes. If not... sorry! in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Under the General Furom, there is a sub-forum for requests.

Reply to CherryOS Trial released in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

CherryOS is a rip from an open source project called PearPC. See this other thread about it: Virtual Mac Wars

Reply to ObjectDock 1.11 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Very nice. Glad to see a few of the old bugs solved. However I have found a few more bugs: - I now have two Object Dock Plus icons in my system tray... - I have my tabbed dock set vertically on the left edge of the screen and the web search docklet opens the search dialog half off-screen.

Reply to iTunes and Pepsi Promo: Watch out! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You're talking different things there. ITunes is a product, whether it's free or not is irrelevant. It's force-feeding people to install the product in order to get the "free" song and enter the contest. Try this one for size: you get your lotery ticket and it tells you to go to XYZ's web site to see if you won. Once there you realise you have to install ThemeXP to see if you've won. How wrong is that? Anyway, I just see it as an unethical practice. Legal maybe, but unethical. BTW: I don't

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Well, if we're talking ease of installation, nothing beats a Mac. Drag and drop from the CD and it's installed. Now THAT's how easy it should be. Not all that DLL and registry crap. If I want to uninstall? Just take the folder and drag it to the trash bin! Buh bye! A lot of Linux distro (and especially a lot of software packages) may indeed be a PITA to install software (make install?!?), but a few distros are getting there, and even in some cases (some Debian based) making it easier than o

Reply to iTunes and Pepsi Promo: Watch out! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm sorry, but I see it as realy wrong. You get a free song and a chance to enter a contest on a Pepsi bottle... Why should you have to download any crappy software? Ok, maybe I can see having to download that software if it was just for the song, since the song could be made in a iTunes-only format. But then again, you shouldn't HAVE to, there could be a suggested download link: We suggest using iTunes for listening to this song... or something like that. But the contest? Come on...

Reply to IE 7 is really coming! in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Bah, I doubt IE7 will be more than a few security patches. Maybe they'll throw in an integration with the anti-spyware proggy they just bought. Maybe they'll add tabs. Maybe design a few icons. But other than that I'm sure it'll be the same engine, I'm sure it still won't support 24 bits PNG's and I'm sure they won't add the customizing capabilities FF has. Heck, they only just decided that they'll release a new version, when they had previously said no further updates would come before the

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Shopko: Dealing with the complexity really is part of the fun That is actualy exactly how I really got interested in PC's. My first "computer" was a Mac and I had it for 7 years. After 7 years, I still knew nothing about computers, as I didn't have to. When I got my first PC with Windows 3.1, I learned more about computers and how they worke

Reply to DesktopX 3 Beta Reports in Beta WinCustomize Forums

I have no idea if its related or not, but this morning I realized that my Windows Scripting engine was messed up. My ASP pages on localhost wouldn't work, Norton Antivirus has some problems displaying my status, and Windows Update gave me a blank page. Had to download and install Windows Script 5.6 and now everything is back to normal. May not be related though, I don't know. But I don't know what else could have cause this to happen... Everything was still fine a few days ago.

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Zoomba, funny you're talking about your mother. That's exactly how I set up MY mother. She never had a computer before, she was retired and just needed something to browse the Internet, send email and write letter in Word and some spressheets in Excell. She didn't want to spend a lot of money (as little as possible). So I got her a refurbished Pentium 2 with Mandrake Linux. She never complained. She got the job done. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmi

Reply to Five Features Operating Systems Should Have in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

About what you call "Distributed File System", the only problem I find with that is that as long as the files are on your local machine, you can back it up, make CD copies, whatever, but if the files are stored on a third party server somewhere, you don't know what will happen to that server 6 months or 2 years from now. I have learned that from experience... I used to have a online photo album... My stupid mistake is that I didn't even keep a local copies of the photos, as I thought that the pi