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Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well, I said I'd do it, and I did! Get this one if you want ObjectMedia to be the default if it is active: http://www.zen9361.zen.co.uk/tmp/DXPlayerSPPriority.zip Get this one if you want ObjectMedia to be the default and run when you press a button if it's not running: http://www.zen9361.zen.co.uk/tmp/DXPlayerSPExecute.zip Either way, extract into C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\DesktopX\SDPlugins and maybe the ObjectMedia directory as well. Work a

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

And also, what version of Windows and Windows Media Player are you using/do you have installed?

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well, the whole point is that it should be working without ObjectMedia. That is, you should be able to open files/folders/URLs/WPL or M3U playlists and do all the things you normally do to them. It will not however open ObjectMedia playlists. If you don't have OM running, what happens when you try to open a file or folder - do any dialogs come up? What does pjpowell's Beetle Player - https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&SkinID=2742 - say is being used? (load the playe

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I will post a DLL here that at least allows you to use it later tonight, although I will try to get it so it does not *start* it if it is not around already (because the intention is to move away from OM).

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

gef: Yes, that's because it doesn't use ObjectMedia anymore, although perhaps we need to reconsider that. Murex: Previous versions didn't work on their own - it always worked with some form of media player. So I would assume that you had something loaded up, even if you didn't know it - perhaps ObjectMedia. Does the player work any better if you unzip these files - http://www.zen9361.zen.co.uk/DXPl

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Murex: What are you trying to use it with? On its own? With ObjectMedia? With Winamp? With something else entirely? Did you try the one I linked? More details would help.

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I should clarify that DXPlayer supports Windows Media Player *internally*. You do not open the WMP application to use it. It is as if WMP is already running invisibly once you load an object that uses DXPlayer. You can open playlists and play them in this invisible WMP with DXPlayer, and it will save its playlist when you unload and reload DesktopX.

Reply to DesktopX 2.3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

gef: Odd. Does it work any better if you extract this into DesktopX\SDPlugins? http://www.zen9361.zen.co.uk/DXPlayer.zip

Reply to LOGON STUDIO in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you don't have XP, you shouldn't be using it, as it won't work. If you do, but log onto a domain, it also won't work, as that requires you to use the standard login window. It will only work if you are on a Workgroup network setup, *and* you have the Welcome Screen enabled in Control Panel/Users/Change the way users logon . . .

Reply to ATI™ Skinning Contest Begins! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This is probably in relation to a law against gambling or something similar - it has to be a "competition with a measure of skill". Either that or they just think dumb people don't deserve prizes. -)

Reply to WinCustomize Development in Community WinCustomize Forums

Looks like something else passed through as well . . . :p

Reply to Fox calls Ohio for Bush! in Politics JoeUser Forums

He should be, there's certainly been enough sins in the last few years for someone to die for . . .

Reply to Decision 2004: And now we wait... in Politics JoeUser Forums

I hope that Kerry does for the sake of international sanity.

Reply to Blog: Sick of politics, widget grumbles. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Murex: The whole script thing is indeed a problem. Skinners don't like having to be scripters as well. More plugins would possibly help with this, although there's always been the problem of quality control there - it's easy to make a bad plugin that breaks DX.

Reply to Brad's election prediction in Politics JoeUser Forums

Looks like you're not the only one to predict that: Link

Reply to The missing explosives mystery resolved? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

That's not criminal . . . it's politics!

Reply to WindowBlinds & DesktopX in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

WB does quite a lot. DX also does quite a lot. Fortunately they do completely different things - the only thing that comes close is that WB skins the XP taskbar, and DX can also be used to *make* a taskbar of sorts - but that's not its main purpose in life. I suggest you try out both of them and see what each does. Frankly WB's CPU and memory use is likely to be minimal (better than using Microsoft's style, even!).

Reply to Bootskin file formats? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Umm, perhaps they've been downloaded as .zip than .bootskin? Perhaps you should save them to disk as files of type .bootskin and then run them? Alternatively extract them to a subdirectory of the main BootSkin directory.

Reply to The Political Machine succeeds in The Political Machine 2004 JoeUser Forums

I think the Slate reviewer was probably most amused by the way it let him re-enact the last election: "Playing as Kerry in one round of Political Machine, I won the popular vote but lost the election. The game didn't offer me a recount."

Reply to Style XP or Windowblinds enhanced? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

As Essencay says, it's unlikely that you'll find an dissenting opinion here. WindowBlinds is good for skinners because it offers them the flexibility they desire because the engine is under the control of Stardock and they can make additions and modifications based on user feedback. A hacked uxtheme can never offer that, and so it's less skinner-friendly. In addition, I would suggest that

Reply to Cursor XP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You can change c:\boot.ini so that the line saying "/noexecute=optin" says "/execute" instead. This will allow it to function correctly. You can put that back for the next version (assuming it fixes the problem!)

Reply to cursor xp and sp2? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The thing is that you are using AMD 64 and SP2. Unfortunately the current version of SP2 does not play nicely with DEP. You must change c:\boot.ini so that the line saying "/noexecute=optin" says "/execute" instead. This will allow it to function correctly. You can put that back for the next version (assuming it fixes the problem!)

Reply to Is a high resolution version of bootskin still going to happen? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It wasn't just talk. However, if Stardock is unable to support the skin due to problems with all of the graphics hardware out there, it is infeasible to release it as a product. Perhaps it could be done with a specific compatability list, but it's hard to be dead certain that such a low level thing will work in all circumstances (and if it doesn't, the result is harsh). That's why they pay the Windows guys a lot, and even then they mess it up sometimes. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/image

Reply to Window Blinds 4 Serial in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Alternatively use Stardock Central (http://storage.stardock.com/files/stardockcentral20.exe) into which you can enter the serial in Regsitration Info.

Reply to A Foreigner's Take On The Freedom Of Speech in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I think the comparison is between two different things. Now I don't know this for sure, but I suspect there is quite a lot of law on the books regarding free speech, as well as a bundle of cases used as law on the subject. The constitution is a guideline, but it's not everything.