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It can depend on what you're doing. Another way is to set activation to none.(Relation tab|Activation).

Reply to Stardock is a chaos club in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]All my other software (Adobe, Corel, Pinnacle, etc...) and even WindowBlinds is working better and faster under Vista SP1. Why can all those hundreds of software houses produce software that works in Vista SP1 with UAC off and why can't Stardock do that ?[/quote] Try comparing apples to apples not apples to oranges. The three companies you mention have development teams larger than all of Stardock working on only one single aspect of a specific app. As for other softwar

Reply to Supporting skinning for it's own sake. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well put. Always have agreed with that but, sadly don't take the risk and polish off some of my less mainstream concepts. One of the most original guys I've seen has been Grover Thewer. His ideas are quite unique, vibrant and exciting. Check out his deviantart site. [color="#0000FF"][link="http://spider4webdesign.deviantart.com/"]spider4webdesign[/link][/color]

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]How the heck did this conversation get into whether Stardock should have WinCustomize or not[/quote] That was me meandering way the heck off topic. Merely was trying to demonstrate (albeit poorly) the cost/benefit relationship of community participation. Listen, it's obvious Brad cares or we wouldn't see these posts. There would be autocratic decisions such as prices increasing and a take it or leave it attitude. Sounds like the price increase is inevitable but,

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well I wasn't really meaning eliminating WC just separating the two. Stardock does have it's own forum that is integrated with WC. That would mean in order to get specific support you would have to be a regular Stardock customer. Nor was I intending that Stardock would disappear from WC and obviously it would perhaps still be the biggest partner/supporter. Paying ad revenue based on standard metrics, I'm sure would be far cheaper than the actual cost of running the site. Zubaz

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Skinning may be a community, but the business side of it, customization(using skins not making them), is a market and I feel that if Stardock wants to keep the product viable they need to realize this fact and address it.[/quote] I think this is what the article is trying to determine. Somewhat of an informal survey so to speak. If the average user is becoming more of a user than an actual skinner then maybe it's time for Stardock to transition to content focus with a feature lim

Reply to Starting advertising never disapears in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]By "have" you mean "purchased", right? [/quote] If by purchase you mean some form of monetary transaction the you are correct sir! :d

Reply to Starting advertising never disapears in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Don't tell me to try pro version, it does the same thing.[/quote] I have the pro version and I've never seen that ever.

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I agree 100%....Maybe I should of just submitted a bunch of screen shots and spent the time I put into SKS in the forums. I would have been a Master by now. [/quote] Trust me I've tried that...sadly it doesn't work. ;p You'll always be a Master in my books! :d

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]maybe you should throw some of us long time skinners a bone now and then, make us feel like we are part of the community too. Seems like the only ones that get noticed are the chatty ones in the Forums.[/quote] This really has been asked, answered, hashed, rehashed, fried and unfried in the forum. From my understanding people get rewarded based on a combination of things such as submissions,tutorials, articles, and forum participation. Actual submissions being only part of the eq

Reply to What's Wrong With WinCustomize? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Move the drop down star rating button position away from the download button.[/quote] Seconded. Maybe a simple 10 pixel drop could do it? Have to agree with Koasati but, think that option should be for an add-on for subscribers only.

Reply to Lifehacker: Customize More Than Your PC in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Ahhh, you're the one I can thank for that. ;) This sites been in my rotation since you mentioned it sometime last year. Very useful and productive.

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't MyColors the better option for users that just want to apply themes? Not the typical skinner. As for the buck a download concept. I'd be hard pressed to see anyone actually making money at that price point...maybe (doubtful) if there where millions of actual downloads monthly. Not sure where Stardock is taking MyColors or if it is exclusive to Stardock design but, an idea might be a MyColors specific gallery where all the skins are commercial

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Brad, I think you're spot on with the content direction and master skinners along with MyColors are great examples of the direction things are heading. As for the content complaints they seem to be atypical of many other markets such as music, books, etc. As the skinning market gets bigger obviously the number of active, quality skinners is going to decline. People need to step back and think for a second how much a graphics designer is actually worth. And that's onl

Reply to Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite in Community WinCustomize Forums

Jim, Thanks for sending me the png's. Have been fooling around with GreanReaper's Realistic Snowflakes using the balloons. [img]http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1678/balloonflakesks9.jpg[/img]

Reply to Is skinning a community or a market? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The trend these days appears to be the opposite or at least companies are trying to foster a community around existing or potential products/services. Wincustomize(the community) and Stardock (major player in the market) have grown together which in many ways is both fortunate and unfortunate. Fortunate because of the ability to respond faster to the demands of and perhaps a better understanding of the market. Unfortunate because sometimes those demands are not very realistic

Reply to Neat utility to run a keyboard shortcut in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

If that's all you're looking for then a simple script using the Sendkeys Method should do it. Something like this: This would be ctrl+s [code="vbscript"] var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); WshShell.SendKeys("^s"); [/code] [code="javascript"] var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); WshShell.SendKeys("^s"); [/code]

Reply to Stardock is a chaos club in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I'm Microsoft has a plan but, I think it was in that box on Bill's car? :D Seriously though, do they even consult with their partners before releasing these updates?

Reply to How to make a weather widget ? in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

You will always have this problem with cloning. Cloning is more for non-scripted objects. The easiest way for non-scripters is to export the object from Builder mode using the name you want to use then change the images. Otherwise you need to go into each script & change the names of the objects. Personally I haven't done a DX Weather Widget and I'm not sure if anyone has done one with a single script? Or better yet maybe someone wants to code a Weather Widget Maker??

Reply to Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite in Community WinCustomize Forums

Hey Jimbo9294 do you mind sending me the png's? I'll work on a DesktopX animation. sirsmiley001[atserver]gmail[dot]com [quote]...password by persisting the storage[/quote] This is one of my peeves. Have seen people save passwords this way and they are neither encoded or encrypted. At the very least use base64 encoding if you must save it. Have been playing around with a Encryption/Encoding class. Using SHA1 works nice for something like this.

Reply to February Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Congrats everyone! :CONGRAT: A pat on a back to Bilbo and the other new Master Apprenti.

Reply to Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite in Community WinCustomize Forums

Gladly help out on the DX Coding. FYI Bilbo and I have been working on a translating method/function for one of his weather widgets. Once things are ironed out I think this could easily be moved to date/time and other widgets. Just deciding whether to use config files with a *.lang extension or to do it internally?

Reply to why doesn't my scripts gets refreshed?? in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Hey, that's good. I've run into this issue today while working on a Language Files Function. I'm thinking in VBS it may be an UTF-8 issue. VBScript is most likely used going back to the original development year of DesktopX. It is also easier than javascript and many people are familiar with VBA. Not a programmer either and just starting to learn javascript because of additional power that it can provide in DesktopX.

Reply to Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite in Community WinCustomize Forums

Wish I had some skillz. :D Wouldn't something like Vad's Skin Checker be fine for checking on updates?

Reply to [WIP]: Happy Birthday Suit(e) in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote]ooooo.... I see a bargraph that adds candles as it increases.....[/quote] ooo....and when you hit a certain age your desktop catches fire or you need an extinguisher to put it out. ;p