TheD2JBug

TheD2JBug

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Reply to What are you doing New Years Eve? in Community WinCustomize Forums

At a hotel now since we're forecasting a storm and I need to be at work tomorrow so work's putting me up Just spent $70 on supper at a place where you get a small amount of really good food for mucho $$ well at least I had a couple of beers

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Reply to Replacing a Laptop hard drive, need some advice. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

you gotta watch out though the HP recovery partition is set up for the disk size you have in the PC. I had this issue when I transferred from a 160gb hard drive to a 250 gb hard drive in my desktop PC. I transferred the partitions over to the new drive using Partition commander then when I attempted to use the recovery console on the new drive ...

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Reply to End of Year PC and Work Chores in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

1. Get linux working on my laptop to have a proper dual-boot setup ( investigate some distros other than kubuntu) 2. clean up my alternate partitions on my desktop PC ( downloads , attachments , etc ) 3. clear out and defragment the primary partition on my desktop PC 4. Fix old video card (7600GT PCI-E) to get rid of it ( it needs a new HSF ) 5. Install PSP X2 and Office 2007 on my desktop 6 set up my external hard drive enclosure

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Reply to How did you pick your screen name in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Snowman" reply="4" id="1967487"]I got mine from my fav movie: Smokey and the Bandit. Obvious for those that know the movie and/or me well, but for those that doesn't: I'm rarther fund of trucks (big-rigs, 18 wheelers etc etc) and in that movie there is a trucker by the name of Cleetus Snow, aka Snowman. I've loved that movie since I saw it first time (out of a kazillion), and the truckers call-name sorta got stuck on me since then.

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Reply to Winder Wonderland in MyColors Stardock Forums

Meh . Same issue here. I got it before there was a MyColors. And I copied the actual theme over here and still it won't apply. Funny enough the premium skin I bought when I got Winter Wonderland ( Magic ) *DOES* work on here.

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Reply to Vista is gone - but it went down kicking and screaming in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="irrnt" reply="9" id="1967033"]Ok here's the problem I see in this discussion: Most people are comparing their set-in, heavely optimized, completely personalized, correctly installed XP rigs with their out-of-the-box Vista machines. Unless you got your XP rig in the bast 18 months or so, you had to do about as much, and many times more, to get it working well as you do with Vista. And XP, I've done about 20, reinstalls in its

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Reply to mittens' fanclub! in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote who="Plantgirl" reply="15" id="1936560"] Quoting hiddenranbir, reply 14 I love Team Ranbir more than mittens. Thanks. Though you do forget that my previous statement overlaps that one. I love mittens more than anything. And Laura, I have found a picture of you! Reduced 98% Original 325 x 446<

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Reply to Why am I using Vista??? in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="kaazz1337" reply="1" id="1956543"]You just dont know how to optimized it for your own purpose. Yes, vista needs alot of attention to be successfull, and if you don't know how to use it / have the patience to customize it, dont whine, and dont buy vista. Stick to XP and leave the peoples who are happy with vista alone. [/quote] not all of us had a choice. This laptop came with Vista, and if it wasn't for the effort necessary to get all the funky features working on ano

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