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Reply to Google's Chrome Browser in Internet Stardock Forums

Well hey. This is the first time on my end I've actually liked a Google app. I don't expect perfection from betas of course, bot for now I'm using it.

Reply to Google's Chrome Browser in Internet Stardock Forums

So far every Google app I've tried is a complete waste of time, although their services are great. We'll see.

Reply to Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

Considering they had one seperate from their main app, I wouldn't say they have inexperience. What the best antivirus is is an opinion that varies from person to person, so I think it's safe to say any of the top ten or so will do well for most people. Myself, I'll stick with AVG until I get a reason not to. Although 8.0 started out a lot buggier than I expected it to, it's still done alright by me in general. As to NOD32, th

Reply to Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

[quote who="Excalpius" reply="23" id="1857254"]In all honesty, I haven't seen a modern rootkit that couldn't easily get past AVG without even breaking a sweat.[/quote] AVG 7.5 didn't have any built in rootkit detection, 8.0 does though. I'd be surprised if it had that problem.

Reply to Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

I'll worry about my PCs security once I start getting senile and doing stuff like 'running two software firewalls to be more secure' and telling people I have 4 megabytes of RAM. Owait, that's my dad. Hmm. He used to be computer savvy...now I guess he's just too into gardening or whatever the heck he does with his time. Ahem anyway, you guys might not be so amused to know how many hotels I've worked at that did not even have their anti

Reply to Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr J0622" reply="12" id="1853937"]My thoughts?FF3 with the ie plugin and several others like stealthier fox, faster fox...etc.Why?MUCH faster, uses open code, and it ain't Microsoft. Amazes me that Impulse went with ie7....wait one....the Vista deal with MS...oh well...[/quote] Stardock already explained why they used IE7. It can be easily embedded in an application, and FF can't. And it's hard to honestly say 'MUCH faster' when you haven't even tried the alt

Reply to Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

These forums are working fine for me in Impulse, I haven't tried externally...but there's a Compatibility Mode button for anything that isn't working right. As for password manager, yes IE has one, even if it doesn't operate the same way. My email is in mainly on the Gmail site so I don't have all that crap cluttering my hard drive...but I do use the Windows Live Mail desktop client for my other email account. Yarr. It's been a while s

Reply to Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

Since there isn't a porn browser version of IE, I'm not surprised you haven't tried it. I admit I'll miss Paste and Go but in general IE just has more usability than Opera. If nothing else, simply because the plugin writers and web developers take it seriously. Now that IE has actually made a push on performance I can see going back to it.

Reply to Mercenaries2 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Mercs 1 I just picked up on a whim because Best Buy still had it out. Never had the original Xbox. I thought it was probably the best original Xbox game I've ever seen. So I have my copy preordered on the PC too. :) Glad they're releasing the PC ver at the same time...that's just excellent.

Reply to Election "Game" Coming to Xbox Live in Gaming Stardock Forums

Of course it's a good idea A lot of people who don't vote wouldn't even know where to start to get registered. I'm going to be using it.

Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in Internet Stardock Forums

I can say that for the first time in a really long time I'm considering leaving Opera. I've been using it a few hours so far and it's definately good. What are your thoughts?

Reply to LogonStudio Vista Broke in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

The download.com ver didn't work for me.

Reply to Impulse--What fresh hell is this ???!!!??? in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

eew, andrew likes eating souls....I like eating small children well enough but souls...I'm not going there.

Reply to Impulse Update 08/25 in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote]There are several improvements to the download manager portion of Impulse. Better recovery and restarting in case of disconnection. This is greatly help out the dial up connections out there.[/quote] Hallelujah. I know they're on the way out but in the meantime I'm not makin enough to move outta here :p

Reply to DX and multicore support in Demigod Stardock Forums

You can certainly do many things in DX9 that can be done in DX10, but there are some things you definately can't. By and large they haven't mattered to anyone yet, but that's partially because there weren't enough Vista users with DX10 cards to justify the extra work. Now it's definately getting there, but it's still an uphill battle. Most of the interesting DX10 work so far has been in MMOs such as LOTRO and soon Age of Conan, where the single player games using it usually have a few

Reply to Demigod Beta Distribution in Demigod Stardock Forums

I left my pitchfork in my other pants. And finally preordered. GPG makes some odd titles (I never finish any of them, though I almost did DS1 before I lost my saves) but I still love them. :)

Reply to Facebook Leads MySpace in Internet WinCustomize Forums

I'm all about Facebook myself. Their page style is somewhat minimalist which I respect...every time I've seen Myspace the pages looked terrible with hundreds of pictures of random people who may or may not be friends and bleh. Yeah, I get it, you have a billion friends. That hardly means I want to see them all. Before Facebook, I couldn't imagine myself signing up to one of these social network sites. Now, I can't imagine myself leaving Facebook. :D

Reply to Windows Blinds Not Working in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

It's not working for me either, seems like since the last Patch Tuesday (for Windows,) on XP x64. Same problem. I wasn't even using the PatchGuard update either, since it screwed with Alcohol 120%, so thats not it. (I am now though, since there was a new SPTD release that fixed that.)

Question on System Information Report in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I've been wondering for a bit, when I talked to support they said the ~SRV in my SIR meant something wasn't working, yet I've only had one build that didn't work...and the SIR claims 'WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.' So what the heck does SRV do? (I'm sure it's the Windowblinds Service, but I'm just not sure what it does.)

Reply to Why are YOU not playing yet? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Gah! 2.24.a[b]182 build 113 Stardock Central must have some brokenness that left it unable to autoupdate, or something. I seeeee Sieze the chihuahua....or something

Reply to Why are YOU not playing yet? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh yeah, looks like it's trying to use 8.3. That explains it. ...nope, no luck. Same stuff. ...sucks

Reply to Why are YOU not playing yet? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Hanging out on forums reading 5 seperate threads asking "Why is there no sound?" (answer: download the multimedia module). ] Download: D:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2_Multimedia.xml 1 Load: D:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2_Multimedia.xml 1 Download: D:\D

Reply to Whos ''brilliant'' idea was STREAMING audio in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

... You know, asking politely to the correct parties usually gets better results. And having only a streaming version is actually fairly common on this thar innarnet.

Reply to galciv.com has outdated info bout GC2 in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

"Galactic Civilizations II: Dreadlords This upcoming March the beta of Galactic Civilizations II will be made available to those users who have pre-ordered it (or have an active TotalGaming.net subscription)." I'd say that wernt out of date when the beta launched

galciv.com has outdated info bout GC2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

something about 'This upcoming march', about the GC2 beta. (I know this could be better written, but I'm at work.)