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Reply to Discounts are not discounts in Fences WinCustomize Forums

Kynao hi. Looks like you're in France so the currency exchange rates and local sales taxes will alter the actual price for you. Generally speaking if you were to compare the Discount offer price to the US with the Normal price and there was for example a 10% lower price then the discount equivalent should apply for you too. Numerically...in US dollars it's not the same for you... it's not the same for me either as I'm in Australia ...;) </p

Reply to Sucked all the fun out of the Game in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="19" id="3943889"] I haven't modded online forums much, so I don't know if necroing threads is an indication of sock troll accounts or AI. [/quote] It's generally an indication of an AI spam or deliberate attempt of legitimizing a troll comment. Threads are deemed 'old' after 12 months of inactivity/responses and won't naturally show to the casual user. A thread pertaining to issues/dislike of an early version of a game loses re

Reply to Sucked all the fun out of the Game in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="17" id="3943865"] This is an incredibly blunt critique of Galciv4 on their own forum that they host. More was allowed to stand than I would have expected. [/quote] Stardock doesn't get involved in removing criticism. What we sometimes do is discover duplicate trolling accounts and remove them [hence the above]. The thread is old, ancient even so much is no longer relevant. When it shows up again suddenly enq

Reply to What is going on with this weird software ?? in Fences WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="secondmouse02" reply="8" id="3943662"] and each time, you capitalized on what is essentially the same program. [/quote] Same program, different program version, different operating system version. Capabilities/features have been added to Fences since 2016 and Fences 2. Even I am not running Fences 2 on this machine...and it's still Windows 7. I'm on 3.1.3.3 The most significant improvements to the generations of Fences is direct con

Reply to Forever Internet and GenX in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Frank5448" reply="2" id="3943632"] Yep, that checks out, as a GenXer I can confirm that makes sense [/quote] Sure does. BTW your second 'troll' account has been removed. My experience of 'Normal' has had almost 70 years to develop. I for one would not want to see things altered just to appease GenX's [or any other generation's] concept of sense and sensibilities. If it's currently quirky to give people or entities odd names then so be

Reply to Sucked all the fun out of the Game in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock.net Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="15" id="3943618"] Which, pray tell are you? [/quote] Ah, worked it out. You are the former.

Reply to Sucked all the fun out of the Game in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock.net Forums

[quote who="RetroSpacePirate" reply="14" id="3943572"] Galactic Civilizations IV is one of the greatest failures in modern 4x gaming. I loved I, II and II. They had a real charm about them. Besides all the bugs, besides all the gameplay issues, besides the lack of meaningful diversity in alien species, its just a game that feels like its lost all its charm. Today I booted it up to give it another try after buying it a year ago. I figured they

Reply to SSD Benchmarks 2024 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I still have a few old platters in this machine...from 2015... WD Greens. What the 'Greens' do is spin down totally if not being accessed. Means everything's cooler...but it's a bit quaint to click on drive 'G' and wait a few seconds for it to wake up - not good if you're in a hurry...;)

Reply to Let us never forget... in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock.net Forums

6 years later... 2015 we were back... And so was the House....

Reply to Let us never forget... in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock.net Forums

I took this photo on my first trip to the US. We stayed just around the corner... 8 years and 10 days later... The House was still closed.

Reply to James Earl Jones Gone at 93 in Community WinCustomize Forums

R.I.P., James.

Reply to Transparency & Blur Behind in Windows Explorer with WindowBlinds 10? [Feature Request] in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Fi1thi-Cupcaike" reply="6" id="3942724"] No. It's just lazy and sloppy. There is no good reason it can't work in WindowBlinds, except the dev team can't be bothered to fix the app. Hint: I am not even a developer and can't code anything, but I got WindowBlinds to show transparent blurred explorer backgrounds, by using some open source code, in a single afternoon. [/quote] There's a lot of presumption there, other than your admission not to be a develop

Reply to Stop using Registry Cleaners! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Reg cleaners used to be a 'thing' back in the early Windows days when both MS and 3rd party devs were famous for untidy system management. Simple uninstallers were always doing things wrong...but pretty much post XP life got a bit cleaner [without a cleaner]. BTW....anyone using Advanced System Care .... never use the registry defrag module. Ever. ...;)

Reply to WinCustomize Monthly Wrap-up - August Edition in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The best part about the US going into Autumn is I'm in the last few days of Winter...so Spring is in sight....;)

Reply to Hi Stardockers - My Fences 5.8 Experience in Fences WinCustomize Forums

Great feedback, and I'm sure the Fence boffins will see the post and reach out re your mockup, cheers ...;)

Reply to Workspaces - MS's new productivity tool in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Sounds almost functional...;)

Reply to Keep an Eye Out! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I'll be keeping my eyes in ....both of 'em. Handy for looking....;)

Reply to AI Desktop Art/Wallpapers 2024 in Artificial Intelligence WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="gypsy2299" reply="492" id="3939114"] More like Catbrant never saw a painting by Piccato that I could tell what his subject was [/quote] Actually he started out as a 'conventional' painter so early works weren't as crap ....;)

Reply to Purge file - Malware? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

.bat files have the potential/capacity to access and/or alter system files so will typically be flagged by security software as "potentially dangerous". Stardock's batch files are specific to Stardock's software management and are entirely safe to use. ;)

Reply to "You are what you eat." in Artificial Intelligence WinCustomize Forums

Double plus ungood doublethink.....

Reply to The Holodeck is No Longer SciFi... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="pelaird" reply="7" id="3937664"] Revit is very similar, but is much more than I need. I also have 12 years experience with Chief Architect, and at my age, I'm not willing to learn a whole new system. [/quote] Yes...it's also darn expensive as a subscription only.... back when Rob was using it the Sub was $7000 AUD per year ...and he's been gone about 7years now...;)

Reply to The Holodeck is No Longer SciFi... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="pelaird" reply="1" id="3937642"] This is very interesting. I actually create 3D environments for a living using Chief Architect software. It is a very time intensive procedure taking many long hours to create. I can actually create "photo realistic" renderings, but it takes forever. Below is an example of a bathroom I did recently. <img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/69/28/6928565/98135ba9-daf0-414d-ae7e-595b21750257.jpg" alt="" width=

Reply to Bob Newhart in Everything Else WinCustomize Forums

R.I.P., Bob.

Reply to inappropriate comment in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="pelaird" reply="11" id="3936327"] Yes, that's what I meant. They must be on servers that are not linked in any way. [/quote] The most annoying issue with the way the gallery databases work is that each spam comment has to be removed individually one at a time. Removing/banning the spammer does not affect the comments themselves. Ideally there would be a 'nuke' button that removed all traces of an individual from all the sites and all the databases..

Reply to inappropriate comment in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote] Is there a moderator who can remove this comment? I do not see anything anywhere that allows me to delete this unfortunate comment, [/quote] Just PM one of the Mods or myself and any 'problem' comment/post can be removed, along with its author ...;)