WinCustomize ForumsThe title "Stardockian" tends to be for people who work at (or for) Stardock, not for their customers (similarly, people who frequent Neowin are Neowinians).
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The edit's only been around a day. This is how articles on Wikipedia get better - people say something, and others disagree with it and then hammer out a better one.
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JoeUser ForumsI have a question to ask: Why learn the information, anyway? Isn't it just as good to know where to find it? There's a lot of information out there that isn't all that important - you just need to know it once and then forget it. If you need it again, you can look it up again. I would suggest that generation X (and those before them) have an emphasis on learning precisely because it was harder to look things up quickly. You learnt things
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9/11 was actually the busiest day ever on a chat I go to. Everyone came in to talk about it, from around the world.
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Stardock is, and always has been, about more than desktop customization. Heck, the company started out building PCs! (that's why you'll sometimes read the term "Stardock Systems" if you find an old page). You can read more at Wikipedia . Obviously, customization and the like is a big part of Stardock's lineup, but there's a lot that goes on that you don't hear about here, because it's not re
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I agree. As we've discusssed, you can get some control by using the foo_winamp_spam plugin or foo_remote and setting DXPlayer to Winamp mode (see here and here ), but it's not a perfect solution. Apparently 0.9 may be better in that respect. We shall see.
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My opinion is that if it ever gets to 100, it's way too hot. As for the sales tax, there's a simple answer - raise it, but provide exclusions, like we do in the UK. VAT is 17.5 there . . . but it doesn't apply to things like food, books and children's clothing.
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Island Dog, your official statement: Stardock doesn't charge for updates and new versions within the same major version number. So if you bought (say) WindowBlinds 4.0, you would receive all released versions (4.1, 4.2, etc.). When the time comes for a new major version, like 5.0, there would be an upgrade path at a reduced rate.
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Wendi: Sounds like something odd is up with the MP3 player component, then! You could try doing a reinstall with the following procedure: Go to C:\Windows\System32\ and rename the file l3codeca.acm to l3codeca.bak. Then open Windows Media Player and go to Help>>Check for Updates. This will re-download the decoder and place a new copy on your system. If that does not do it then go to Start | Run | Type "regsvr32.exe l3c
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This is not an official statement, but I would imagine that if you buy it, you'd get all 3.x versions, as standard for Stardock separately-registered products. After that, you might have to upgrade (probably available for a reduced fee) if you want access to 4.x features.
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Mackintosh: Are you using any virus or script-checking software that could be interfering? Not sure why it would be causing problems if it worked before, but I guess it's a possibility . . . You could also try reinstalling the Windows Script Engine , as if that's not working then there's definitely going to be problems.</
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Well, dunno what you did, but it doesn't work here at all. Just sits in the corner frozen and eats up resources. Moreover, I can't kill it even with the task manager, have to reboot to get rid of the bastard. You're using the latest beta, 1.50a? If so, please tell me all of the settings from your regi
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Well, you could certainly set the wallpaper for the season and time of day - the wallpapers are appropriately named and are in the Natural Desktop\AppData folder, so you would just need to adjust the seasons and time, then specify a single wallpaper. For example, you could set the AutumnNight.jpg file to come up in Morning during Summer, if you so wished. The colour of the window's background can be set in a similar way, although it does not vary with
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If you've had problems with things just not working (european users, particularly), please try the most recent beta build.
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Ironically I was in Europe when writing most of the new version of Natural Desktop - the country which currently has the EU Presidency, no less.
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It is? Excellent! I think a lot of the improvement is due to the use of DX 3 - it really is a lot tighter than previous versions. For those of you who have had severe problems due to not being English - my apologies, and a fix is in the pipeline.
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I think the snowflakes could be improved, personally. Maybe for a winter edition.
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It would be. Unfortunately we're not quite at the point where that's entirely feasible, although some parts certainly are.
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I don't think there'll be much change. Certainly not for the translucency - probably all you need is a TGA file for that. As for the rest . . . it's still to be seen exactly what will be supported, and how, so it's rather hard to know things like details of file formats! You will probably still be using SkinStudio to edit them, though.
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If there is an option for fish shadows, try turning that off? Unfortunately DesktopX performance is very dependant on good graphics card and driver support. If you have the latest and it's still taking large amounts of CPU, well . . . there's not all that much you can do. I'm not sure why it would be so slow when your fish aren't visible, though.
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You're running in US locale, but do you have the "non-unicode applications" option set to Swedish? That appears to be the thing that really affects it. The current problem I'm working on is due to the dates of daylight savings time, which is the really critical one - if it can't find out the time, it doesn't correctly process the rest, and so you don't get the weather updated. The worse thing is, to fix it, I have to actually use US date for
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MickeM: There has been a problem reported for users that have commas in their numbers rather than decimal points. VBScript is being troublesome and not reading numbers correctly when using this system locale, so longitudes get interpreted as impossible numbers. For example, 19.0 gets turned into 190! The radar then says "OK, well it's not in any of these zones, so the only place it could be is in oceania", and you end up with that, and the other proble
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No, it is related to DX, because it's not possible to figure out where the available working space of secondary monitors are through DesktopX, only the main one. There's the possibility of making it just free-floating, although I would be somewhat worried about people changing their display settings and finding that they'd lost Natural Desktop (this would again be easier to check if DX had full multi-monitor detection).
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Of course it's not hot - it's cool!
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Yeah, Active Desktop can really screw with things (in general, not just ND). It was a nice idea, but not perfectly executed.
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