Jonathan Marston

Reply to Living with Vista: Video Demo #1 in Vista Reviews Stardock Forums

What is the highest score you can get in the benchmark thing? I presume its 5. My PC is well over 5, so I presume it's unlimited.

Reply to WindowBlinds Vista sneak preview.. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Looks cool, but I'd be even more interested if you guys figured out how to call the "undocumented" DWM API and create new shader effects (in addition to the "glass" effect) and animations.

Reply to Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

WMP isn't trying to become iTunes, it's already better than iTunes. I've subscribed to URGE, and now I can download and play as much music as I want to for just $10/month. And unlike other services such as Rhapsody, URGE is 100% completely and seamlessly integrated into WMP 11, so I can manage my URGE music alongside my other MP3s and WMAs from inside a single program, all with auto-organized folders, album art, and indexed searches. Very sl

Reply to Windows Vista RC1 released on Connect in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I've been running RC1 all day today...and I'm almost considering formatting my main partition and making it my primary OS. Yes, it's that good. I've tried everything from just everyday web browsing and IMing, to coding and Photoshop, and all is good so far. I haven't tried gaming yet, though, but judging from the release notes on the latest driver from nVidia (dated Friday), I wouldn't be too surprised if it didn't go that well. My real grip

Reply to Windows Vista: A pre-beta 2 status report in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

I don't understand all this talk of handles. My XP machine runs >20,000 all the time, and I've never seen it below 15,000...and my machine is the fastest machine I've ever used. Never had ANY performance problems whatsoever. I won't claim to know exactly what these handles are or what they do, but I don't think the writer of this article really understands the situation, either. As for processes, my XP install is running at 42 processes righ

Reply to Stardock - (one of) the most annoying software companies...ever in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Grrr...stupid text communication and lack of inflection...here...let me try this: "And for the record, the reason I said that Stardock is the most annoying company, is not because I think they're a bad company, or that I don't like their software. On the contrary, they make some of the coolest software ever, with nothing like it in existence. And although my original comment may have been somewhat overstated, it is extremely annoying to have something so cool right in front of you

Reply to Stardock - (one of) the most annoying software companies...ever in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Hmmm But what about this title? You could try reading the entire sentence: And for the record, I did not say Stardock is the most annoying company because I think they're a bad company, or that I don't like their softwa

Reply to Stardock - (one of) the most annoying software companies...ever in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

1.6 GHz Pentium 4 M 2GB RAM Intel 915GM Video This is my machine from work. I'll admit I have alot of stuff running on it, but only because it is essential to my job (hence the 2GB RAM my company gave me). I realize that skinning is by no means a simple task, especially for non theme-aware apps, but when I started having problems I disabled WB. The only Stardock apps that should have actually been running were IP, and the Open/Save dialog extender, and it was sti

Stardock - (one of) the most annoying software companies...ever in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I love Stardock's software. I've used the trial versions off and on for the last few years, but I never bought it until recently because...well...I always ended up having problems with certain programs, or I got tired of it slowing down my computer. A couple months ago I gave the latest WindowBlinds a try, and I was impressed. It was fast, complete, and seemed to finally be solid enough for everyday use. So I went ahead and purchased Object Desktop. I was happy...for awhile. Eve

Reply to Problem with Start menu in subscriber Halloween skin in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I've noticed the same problem with other skins as well, though not as apparent because most skins I use don't have so much transparency on the top (usually just a shadow or something).

SDMCP.exe causes explorer.exe to hang during startup in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Recently I started getting an issue where explorer would hang on system startup. I had been just restarting the explorer process to get around it, but recently I've found that if I end the SDMCP.exe process, explorer continues to load fine. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

WindowBlinds makes IE forms CRAWL in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Today I got fed up with the slowness I've been experiencing lately in Internet Explorer while developing a new web application for my job, and decided to try and narrow down the problem. At first I thought it was a problem with the site itself, as I hadn't noticed the problem on other sites, but testing on a different machine quickly told me that wasn't the problem. After trying several different things, I tried disabling WindowBlinds on my machine, and it works fine now. Apparently i

Reply to WB5 Cool Effect probably not intentional in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

So uh...this isn't going to be fixed? That kinda sucks...I get this all the time. My CursorXP has a tendency to go under the titlebars as well...and the start menu too. Plus, DesktopX widgets go on top of the title bars alot. Basically, lots of z-order issues with WB5...still an awesome app, just kinda annoying when the effect gets ruined by drawing order issues... Hydromanekin69: if you have OD you can get it from Stardock Central. If you don't have OD, then I

Reply to eTrack - eBay tracking widget in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

It does count down in real-time, and prices are updated on an interval that you specify (anywhere from 1 minute to 1 hour). I am looking into adding a dynamic refresh interval option (the closer an auction comes to ending, the more frequently it updates). The display is based on your watched, bidding, won and lost items, so all you have to do to add an item the widget is place a bid, or add it to your watched items list. The widge

eTrack - eBay tracking widget in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Would you pay $5 for this?

JavaScript doesn't respond to ActiveX control events... in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I'm having trouble getting my widget to work, because I can't get JavaScript to respond to activex control events (Control_DocumentComplete on "Microsoft Web Browser" specifically). It works fine with VBScript, but I can't stand VBScript's handling of arrays...and my widget has to use them extensively. Is there some kind of alternate syntax required for JS to respond to the control events? Thanks, Jonathan

Reply to Myths & Facts about WindowBlinds in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Windows 95-Windows 98-Windows 98SE-Windows ME-Windows 2000-Windows XP Home/Professional lol...NO back at you! Windows 2000 came out BEFORE Windows ME. ME was basically just a marketing thing to give home users something new to buy. It was 98SE with 2000 icons, DOS hidden better, and the little bit of stability in 98SE stripped away...<br