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HG: "i have been in the skinning comuntiy since 95/96 ?" Wow. What community was that and what skinnable apps were you running back then?

Reply to Virtua Memory too low in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Just found out what happens when you have no pagefile and fire up Photoshop. It starts complaining about how it needs at least 16 megs of swap, warns you that it's "dangerous" to not be using a swap file and then asks you if you want to continue. Hit "yes" and it works just like it always does, without a hitch. Stupid Photoshop needs to learn to use the scratch disks I assigned to it.

Reply to Boots Skins (lookin BAD) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There are only sixteen colours available at that point in time, so that's why the boot skins only have sixteen colours. Luckily, it's not a fixed palette, so there is some flexibility still. The devs looked into doing something to be able to use more colours, but it wasn't feasible.

Reply to Virtua Memory too low in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Don't notice much of a difference in speed, aside from not having to swap apps in and out. Less disk trashing is good, if you ask me. 'Sides, I set some registry keys to load the process into ram instead of scratch (can't recall what exactly though). /me has 640 megs of ram, with an average load of 2-300

Reply to Blog: Drama on Aqua-Soft in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

People are people. So, why don your asbest suit on your own turf?

Reply to Virtua Memory too low in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I switched it off, I think. I set the swap size to zero and even though the taskmanager claims the system still is using virtual memory, I can't find the swapfile itself anywhere. By the time Longnose comes out, I'll be old and grey.

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/me thinks that on a modern machine you have so much RAM that there is no need for virtual memory

Reply to Would an Admin email me why that was done? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hmm, so to solve this riddle, step one would be to find out who removed the thread and step two would be to get this person to explain the reasons for it.

Reply to PLEASE HELP! LITE STEP. S.O.S. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Looks like you're not running any shell whatsoever. The under-the-hood method of fixing things, which could kill your machine if you fuck up: 1) Navigate to c:\windows and run regedit.exe. This gives you access to the Registry, the database in which Windows stores all its settings. 2) Within regedit, navigate to these three lccations (using the tree listing on the left) and check if the value for "Shell" (which should show up on the right) says "Explorer.exe":

Reply to Would an Admin email me why that was done? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oi? No need to be euphemistic. What are we talking about here?

Reply to How do I become a 'Skinner' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oh, I don't know. I started out as "master apprentice" from the get-go and when I complained about that (Apprentice? Me? I don't think so!) I suddenly found myself being "journeyman". Moral of the story: complain loud and often. Perhaps it's an idea to make the "skinner" title available to anyone who has uploaded something.

Reply to how many people.....? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sylva aka crazygirl76 aka cg76 aka Donna Spadafore

Reply to How do I become a 'Skinner' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jafo's probably. And if that doesn't work, try T-Man or froggles.

Reply to Should I use NTFS? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Actually, the correct term would be data corruption. No files go missing, but a couple of bits get shifted. Something which only seems to occur when moving large (quantities of) files between NTFS partitions on the same drive.

Reply to Should I use NTFS? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's odd, isn't it. I've never had dataloss with FAT, but it occurs far too often with NTFS. And it's not my drives or anything, as those get regularly checked. By the way, "far too often" is once every so many weeks. Any dataloss is too often in my book.

Reply to Should I use NTFS? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have more dataloss on NTFS than I ever had on FAT and my machine doesn't even have to crash for it, so it's far from perfect.

Reply to Pease Be Kind and think carefully Before you type. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There is something very strange about how this board mangles my posts. I think froggy took over skinz' filter when he started this site.

Reply to Pease Be Kind and think carefully Before you type. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

&ltjafo&gt w ei rd &lt/jafo&gt So in short, you're going through a laissez faire phase in life. Chin up mate, it'll pass. But only you can change that. In the meantime, just randomly hit the enter key whilst typing and that comma problem will be a thing of the past.

Reply to What coding do I use in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

By the way, escaped @ is &amp#64&#59, 38 is an ampersand.

Reply to What coding do I use in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What the? Some filter is eating semi-colons. Let me try that again: &amp#38&#59

Reply to What coding do I use in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

&amp#38 People always forget the semi-colon.

Reply to Pease Be Kind and think carefully Before you type. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

In general: think before you act. Swan, why are you capitalising your nouns (and random other words) as if you're typing German?

Reply to Should I use NTFS? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you're waiting for WinFS, you can keep waiting for many years to come. And I believe it's going to be layered on top of NTFS, so it won't really be a replacement, more an add-on. For the average user, NTFS has no clear advantage over FAT32. More so for the power user though (to name a few: hard links, junction points, volume mounts and much faster defragmentation).

Reply to What is the different between jpeg and jpeg 2000 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

And since it isn't integrated into browsers by default (patent issues), it isn't going anywhere either. It's not necessarily lossless, by the way. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG2000

Reply to Complaints about free ice cream in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The world needs more Attila's (where the hell have you been hiding these last few years?). The whole customer/non-customer discussion is besides the point. The real issue here is respect and lack thereof. Perhaps because of the indirect nature of the net you get to see people's egocentrical side more. And with all that said, forget about the ice. I _demand_ free beer! Pronto!!