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Reply to Issue with objectdock 2 with 2 monitors in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

This is one of the never addressed, long-standing bugs with objectdock going back at least 4-5 years. There are many. The same thing happens at logon/reboot, if your mouse is not hovering over your primary monitor's screen during the startup of objectdock. Yes, the position of the mouse over one monitor or another is the key here. So if you have docks on Monitor 2, which is to the right of Monitor 1 (your primary), AND you leave th

Reply to WindowFX 5 - Beta 2 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]The cpu issue was unrelated to GPUs, though it was linked to having multiple monitors I think.[/quote] Ahhh, then it definitely could be the same thing happening within the Deskscapes engine, because muliple monitors/multi-GPU cause the same consequences there. Amazingly good catch, Stardock elite. [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

Reply to WindowFX 5 - Beta 2 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle, THIS WORKS!!! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] I'll try it all day, but so far, no explorer crashes or maxed CPU. Kris, you might want to pass a note on whatever had to be changed to whoever is the Deskscapes Codemaster on duty these days. As I mentioned in my post before, this behavior was identical to a longstanding problem there, and if this fixxed it here, it might fix it there. Just a thought.

Reply to WindowFX 5 - Beta 2 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I've noticed on my quad core system, that explorer runs at 25% cpu useage with this version over the prior one that ran at 3% useage.[/quote] Agreed, this means that one of your cores is being hit at 100% by Explorer (which is not multithreaded in this case). And the system is just reporting it spread over four CPUs (e.g. 100%/4=25%) by default. My 8 core shows the same situation as yours in that it pegs one of the CPUs just by running...at 12.5%. I am indee

Reply to WindowFX 5 - Beta 2 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

YAY! This works PERFECTLY on my Geforce 295 (two discrete but identical GPUs) machine now! [e digicons]:beer:[/e] The only odd behavior of note is that it seems to require one explorer.exe crash before it is stable. So when I run the beta and wobble a transparent window a few times, explorer.exe crashes. But after explorer.exe restarts, it doesn't seem to crash again...no matter what I do to it. This behavior also happens if I log off and then log on,

Reply to Windows 8 Beta is a UI nightmare in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="76" id="3096794"] I personally feel that W8 is a failure due to the fact that it's main competitor (Apple) makes things so easy. W8 is NOT intuitive at all. Big mistake. Along with making it fugly.[/quote] Agreed 100%. That link only backs up with everyone is saying. And while fugly can can modified, updated, and customized quite easily (witness Apple's always terrible blue jelly sliders debacle), the fact that this OS has n

Reply to Windows 8 Beta is a UI nightmare in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="77" id="3096849"]It's pre-mature to call it a failure when it hasn't even been released yet. There's lot of time to make changes and address some issues people bring up. [/quote] I agree with you 100% that new shortcuts and minor tweaks can certainly be introduced now. Even the start button could be added back in on the taskbar, etc. But I think that period has passed, design-wise. Without b

Reply to Windows 8 Beta is a UI nightmare in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="61" id="3095419"]For a nice little article about W8 keyboard shortcuts which might make things easier - [/quote] No one should have to use the keyboard (let alone shortcuts) to effectively use a mouse-driven GUI...period. We passed that era about 30 years ago. 8P

Reply to Windows 8 Beta is a UI nightmare in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I have to agree with Brad here 100%. As another "power user", I just can't see how this is the least bit useful in a professional, let alone multi-monitor environment. /begin rant I see HUGE wastes of screen real estate with fullscreen weather widgets even on single, small resolution monitors. But I'm running three 30" monitors as one desktop, so each screen is 2560x1600 (like Brad's). Even if this garbage is restricted to one monitor, 256

Reply to WindowFX and Window Flipping in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="gevansmd" reply="2" id="3093955"]Middle mouse button??? I haven't seen a 3 button mouse in years, why did you choose that trigger?[/quote] I haven't seen a mouse without a middle mouse button in a decade or more. [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to WindowFX 5 Beta 1 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

A nvidia 295 is a multiple GPU card and as such is likely to end up unsupported when both GPUs are being used (as is the case in three head mode) Yes, I am aware of that, but I wanted to see if mismatched GPUs made a difference (on my other machine) vs. matching GPUs on this test machine, which would indicate a driver issue. I realize this is unlikely to be fixed, but I thought I'd at least narrow down the parameters should w

Reply to WindowFX 5 Beta 1 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I was able to test this beta on another system with an nVidia 295 in use all three monitors mode. It worked FLAWLESSLY until I installed Windowblinds and Deskscapes. BSOD. Testing further, I found that the animations only seem to crash if I am using BOTH Windowsblinds and Deskscapes together (which I always do). Unloading Windowblinds while running Deskscapes...no WindowFX crash. Running Windowblinds while Deskscapes is disabled...no WindowFX crash. <p

Reply to WindowFX 5 Beta 1 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]It is possible your multiple graphics card setup is the issue there as I doubt we have tested with multiple graphics cards. We may have to indicate such a setup for animations is unsupported as multiple cards can complicate things considerably.[/quote] Understood. Looks like Lantec and I have very similar setups, although I am running nVidia cards and he is running ATI cards. So it looks like it is not an OEM driver issue, per se. Fortunately, all of y

Reply to WindowFX 5 Beta 1 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It is possible your multiple graphics card setup is the issue there as I doubt we have tested with multiple graphics cards. We may have to indicate such a setup for animations is unsupported as multiple cards can complicate things considerably. Understood. Fortunately, all of your other awesome Stardock widgets and gadgets work great with multiple monitors/display cards these days, so I am grateful for that. 8)</p

Reply to WindowFX 5 Beta 1 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Love it! BUT got my first BSODs ever with Windows 7 thanks to this little bitty. 8( I assume it's a conflict between the beta and some of the other Stardock customizations I run. Here's the lowdown: Select custom animation effects for anything but default, or the Start Menu, etc. Move the item in question. BSOD. I'm running Windowblinds (latest version) with everything transparent, a different animated Deskscape on each of three moni

Reply to Windows 8: Is Microsoft trying too hard? in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="10" id="3024954"] if their first experience/sighting of Win 8 is the Metro GUI [/quote] I think it's safe to say that MS will offer multiple versions of their operating systems. Some will be called something like Home and some will be called something like Professional. And that's only one way MS could have either interface the default. But I think it's more likely tha

Reply to Windows 8: Is Microsoft trying too hard? in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

[quote quoting="post"] It seems there has been a lot of speculation about Windows 8 as of late. ....ignorant FUD removed... Comments would be appreciated. [/quote] It's pretty obvious that you're spreading FUD from a thoroughly uninformed position, based on a very limited sampling of the OS for touch/tablet markets only. Windows 8 is based on the Windows 7 kernel, but will include new code support for new CPUs, new hardware, and

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Reply to DeskScapes 3.5 and 4 New Master Dynamic Dreams Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Update for Neil: I have found that your new algorithm for handling multiple monitors with Moving Wallpapers works GREAT with multiple monitors on the same display adapter. It is very efficient with dwm.exe cycles. However, it still suffers from the same problems as other dreams when working with monitors on another/second display adapter. In those cases, it is still preferable to run two or more separate instances of Moving Wallpaper, one per monitor, in order to o

Reply to DeskScapes 3.5 and 4 New Master Dynamic Dreams Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote] Each of them has the option to show unique content per monitor for multiple monitor users which is a plus and two of them default to a very slow speed so they do not distract you at all.[/quote] I just bought the Moving Wallpaper dream and as always you create the best dreams! I'd love to see this feature quoted above added to an update of Photodream, of course. Right now, I have to run multiple instances of Photodream to get the sam

Reply to Win7's no-reformat, nondestructive reinstall in Windows 7 WinCustomize Forums

I'm always glad when people share such useful tidbits with the masses! The fact that Windows 7 is actually just an iso partition with a bunch of migration wizards to transfer data has been a boon to every pro IT person I know since Windows 7 hit beta. We all use Windows 7 upgrade as in place reinstall because it is just so bloody convenient! Microsoft took note of this when they added this as a new "option" in Windows 8 (in place restore/repair,

Reply to So Long HP TouchPad, We Barely Knew Ya… in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The updates to this story make it clear that they are NOT killing WebOS, just the hardware they were having trouble getting marlet traction with.

Reply to Active vs. Passive 3D–which is better? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Cruxador" reply="38" id="2985505"] Quoting kona0197, reply 35Badly done live action? What movies were bad?I've heard that the new Conan movie's 3D was very poorly implemented.[/quote] Yes, it was a terrible post conversion done in Romania by the same team that did the vfx...just to save money and get international kickbacks etc.

Reply to Active vs. Passive 3D–which is better? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="flymar" reply="32" id="2985392"] They now still can't make LCD screen that have constant lighting on the whole surface. [/quote] OLED TVs (coming very soon) solve the true blacks issue since they are light emitting. 8)

Reply to Active vs. Passive 3D–which is better? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="31" id="2985332"]That has yet to be seen. I think people will vote with their wallets. Overall I've heard 3D ticket sells are down.[/quote] Not for animated movies. Just for badly done live action ones. PROMETHEUS is being shot in 3d as is AVATAR 2 & 3. And there isn't a Pixar movie that isn't coming in 3d. Etc.