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Jafo

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Reply to A Dream... in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Iben" reply="1" id="3965636"] My dream is that I graduate kindergarten [/quote] Not a chance, mate ...;)

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Reply to We're back! What happened? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Knobula" reply="16" id="3965691"] Sadly, that's not the whole box; just the top of it has survived, propped up on a bookshelf all this time... [/quote] Not only do I have a complete OS2 in the box... I also have a boxed Windowblinds ... and a GalCiv ...;) ......and XtreeGold too ...;)

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="PhoenixRising1" reply="43" id="3965625"] AI would certainly help skin Windows 11 better. I believe the OS has many elements to it that frustrate the skinning community and it would be nice to have a tool to alleviate some of these headaches. AI would be able to do a lot of tedious tasks automatically to allow skins to looks a lot better on Windows 11 and that would be a good thing for Windowblinds. [/quote] Yep. If as a tool AI could rejig older skins to

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Reply to Everything takes a long time to load in Fences WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="IrwinMFletch" reply="12" id="3963739"] Ok, got a Windows BSOD - unrelated to Fences [/quote] Getting a BSOD can always be the underlying issue of everything going wrong elsewhere. I'd be more inclined to chase up the 'why' of the BSOD before "reverting to shareware". Systems can be extremely stable these days. My machine still runs its original install of Windows 7 Ult 64 that went live in January, 2015. Never been reinstalled.

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Reply to Ads in Forum Issues WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="3" id="3965563"] So, simply just buy something? Ok. [/quote] Nah...that's just what you do when you see Ads.... cos that's the reason they exist. Current Customers and/or Wincustomize Subscribers "shouldn't" see them, certainly not to any great degree. If they do it's possibly cookie/site crash issue ...:)

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization Stardock Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="34" id="3965498"] As one of the 'per pixel' Notepad skinners from way back, I'm intrigued by the possibility of using AI to resurrect old, currently incomplete or incompatible skins to the current format (assuming I could find the original skin files). I have no other interest in AI but that I could consider. [/quote] Yes... if that could work it would be a plus, providing appropriate permissions were had ...;)

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization Stardock Forums

[quote who="AeroPurple" reply="35" id="3965502"] If you're still not convinced that AI generation is a massive threat, I don't know what to tell you. But I'm leaving this conversation for my own sake, because convincing you about something this obvious is a waste of my time. [/quote] I personally will never use it, and never have. There's nothing you can say that I don't already know. AI is the inept's way of creating 'art', simply painting-by-numbers except mo

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Reply to Ads in Forum Issues WinCustomize Forums

Buy some stuff ...;) In theory you may see the odd banner for Stardock's stuff. Have a go at the old trick...."have you tried turning it off and turning it on again" Log out, clear cookies...log in...;)

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Reply to umm....monk here......radio check! :) in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="3" id="3965338"] I make this post. Check back the next day or so and everything is GONE. For a hot-minute I thought Brad had personally banned my ass! [/quote] Ah...so you're the culprit ...;)

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Once upon a time there were complaints that using effects and filters etc in Photoshop wasn't 'creative' art. Machine creativity.... Photographs were not Art they were a click of a finger. I don't use AI. It took me decades just to start using layers. Eg nothing in that LiteSTEP theme or Winamp skin was drawn with layers. It was 'per-pixel', as in drawn/painted. Heck. I saw what was happening in Architecture... and thus building design..

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Autodesk has been generating correct perspective for decades. I bet your modern Architect wouldn't have a clue how to do it by hand. Autodesk's Revit is the professional tool for true Architectural CAD drawing. You input the building's coordinates effectively and presto the mathematics is converted to true perspective from any viewpoint you want. Cut and paste sampling of a view in a general perspective like a street scene for a car will always sort of 'look righ

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="pelaird" reply="22" id="3965293"] some of the newer AI generated wallpapers are very good. [/quote] AI still hasn't got a clue about perspective. To someone who can generate it correctly it's often painfully obvious ...;)

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

An example of how it used to be. August, 2004, so 21 years ago. The 'bar' at the top is a rolled up Windowblind, Treetog's "Antares". The rest was done working directly from Treetog's skin - manually reworked to become a LiteSTEP theme [with animations] as well as a WinAMP 2.x skin. The learning curve for this was pretty extreme and almost entirely per-pixel gra

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="AeroPurple" reply="16" id="3965249"] Why in the world would you want that to happen? [/quote] Skinning has been around for over 30 years. A few people who were there at the beginning of skinning are still here today. For them it's quite straight-forward to create another new skin design. For others just now wanting to get into skinning have a steep learning curve in front of them. More often than not they simply give up and make do

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Reply to Windowblinds in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="StarGazer1777" reply="10" id="3965038"] I see someone likes either flight or space sims. [/quote] I do graphics [I skin planes] for MS FSX .... they are a challenge as they never follow a standard method of doing them. When done from scratch and generating your own 'paint kit' it can take a huge amount of work.. Here's a whacky example.... <img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/0/0/23/3df90fc6-88f2-43a5-bd70-99187ba73fb3.jp

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Wincustomize Has A New Moderator - pelaird in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It's been a while since we had a new addition to the fold. pelaird was 'noticed' quite a while ago but took a little convincing on his part that he'd be right for the role. You'll see him bouncing around on Wincustomize and on Stardock.com keeping things neat and tidy. Please give Philip a warm we

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Reply to Windowblinds in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Then, earlier this year... No. 021... second hand took a lot of rebuilding, particularly when I discovered not all Modular PSUs are wired the same....and fried a 1000w Antec.

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Reply to Windowblinds in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

There's a lot who 'build their own' in our bunch. Customizing the GUI is one thing... customizing the hardware is simply another part of it. Current machine.... went live in January, 2015 ... has an uptime of around 10 years.... I mean the big lump of Thermaltake Level 10, not the laptop...;) It's No 221 of a world wide limited 500.

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Reply to Windowblinds in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="StarGazer1777" reply="3" id="3964921"] Miss XP and really miss Windows 7. [/quote] There is a solution to that. You stay with Windows 7 and use other methods to keep it safe and current. [eg 0patch]. The issue is typically not with memory-intense GUI changes... that's a thing of the past with both Modern OS memory management and modern systems having oodles of ram. The issue arises when 2 competing programs are trying to modify [skin] the sa

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Reply to AI Skinning? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="3964902"] I think it will be possible, relatively soon, to have a tool that makes it easy for skinners to create new skins. [/quote] Reminds me of the time when I was manually coding every transparent pixel in Magic pink for Winamp by hand...took one hell of a long time to do... then Maxim saw my methodology and wrote a program to do it at 1 click of a button. I didn't know whether to kiss him or thump him...;)

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