benmanns

benmanns

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Reply to Please tell us something about WindowBlinds 10 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="33" id="3604324"] I am certain that Stardock's devs see things that I don't, but I haven't actually noticed any GUI changes on Windows 10 since it's release. To my untrained eye, the GUI has sucked about the same all along. Unless I have been asleep. What has changed? [/quote] tray section gained additional functions one example the safe external drive dissconnect button, that ha

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Reply to Hoping all our members in France are safe and well in Community WinCustomize Forums

For everyone who lost a friend, a brother or sister, wife, kid or other family member, my deepest condolences. For everyone else i hope you are and manage to keep staying safe. For those injured i wish a quick recovery. For all the cavemen responsible for this terror, i sincerly hope, that you´ll find a quick end by drowning in excrement.

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Reply to recommend external drive in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="14" id="3594992"] I disagree benmanns. My laptop is a Toshiba as was my last one and the first laptop I ever had. I have never had a problem with either one. I can't say anything about their external HDD's having never had one but the laptops themselves I consider gold. I'll take Toshiba over any other out there. [/quote] I said it out of experience had 2 drives rated usb3 incapable of running the drive on usb3. Support was a mess took

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Reply to WindowBlinds 8 and Windows 10 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="105" id="3594853"] Also IconPackager must not be installed on Windows 10. Doing so will cause major problems if you ever uninstall it! [/quote] FIX IT [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e] FIX IT [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e] FIX IT [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e] [e digicons];P[/e]

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Reply to recommend external drive in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="9" id="3594784"] I would suggest AGAINST toshiba brand extrnal hdds as I have had SEVERAL fail within 2 days o purchase and be replaced, then the replacement fails which is replaced, then fails again, then refunds, and even had this pattern happen thorugh different suppliers harpo, he ghost NON-subscribing tech [/quote] agree do not get toshiba products, if stuff breaks you have to deal with the cs which is equally ter

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Reply to recommend external drive in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Western Digital are usually pretty reliable i have 3 of them they all run 24/7 no failure so far one is 6 years old the others are close two years. They do come with a usb cable however those are pretty short.

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Reply to Jafo's OK PC Build of 2015 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Mhh still no fix from ASUS? I have read a lot of topics that this is MOBO related. So i have to ask did you flash your Bios? My wife also has an m2 as main drive and here is what i did: 1. Changed SATA mode to AHCI in PCH Storage Configuration 2. SATA Support for All Devices 3. Enable CSM [BOOT] 4. Enable Launch PXE OpROM [BOOT] (5) For some reason i had to set fast boot to disabled. Dont ask me why. <div cla

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Reply to Install the Aero Glass for win8 WB still can not open Aero in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Congratulations! It would be great if you could add some more information about the tool, more information is needed because the www. offers more than twenty of these tools. Please name the version and the company/ person who created it. If you don’t know the name or the site where you downloaded the tool things will be a bit difficult. Aero Glass (junkware) is not a Stardock Product as far as i know therefore your chances are sli

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Reply to Limit W10’s intrusiveness with AntiSpy. Free. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Avatar137" reply="31" id="3592206"] Quoting benmanns, reply 30 The normal wifi/sense settings should be listed under your network and internet settings and should include 2 checkboxes or sliders for you to disable sharing. Start button- the settings wheel - network and internet - wifi at least t

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Reply to Limit W10’s intrusiveness with AntiSpy. Free. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The normal wifi/sense settings should be listed under your network and internet settings and should include 2 checkboxes or sliders for you to disable sharing. Start button- the settings wheel - network and internet - wifi at least that is where they used to be as i remember - could be that they changed it though not sure since i dont run any wifi

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Reply to Limit W10’s intrusiveness with AntiSpy. Free. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I normaly gladly give a step by step tutorial for stuff like this, But it seems that i shouldnt do it as often since people just copy the steps without questioning whats actually happening. So pleased dont be mad if i ecourage you to google "ssid_optout" it will benefit you´re security aswell as understanding. here is a <a href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/07/01/windows-10-wi-fi-sense-feature-shares-your-wi-fi-network-with-your-friends/

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Reply to I like metro, but I hate Metro in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

it would be a nice from a visual aspect but i doubt that it would have any practical use since the UI was made to give you quick access to your progs. following a concept of avoiding unnecessary clicking like in windows7 startmenu. You can however sort your apps and name a category and drop them into these, that way all of your game shortcuts or apps will be listed on one category inside the metro UI, but you would have other apps still listed on that same page. [quote wh

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Reply to Any E.T.A. For WindowBlinds (and SKS) 10 yet ?? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

whatever dude you're like Langdon Cobb haha. [e digicons];)[/e] I dunno if the cold turkey kicks in atm but you could have just used any of these other topics since they all have one in common - they all want to know when windowblinds10 will be released.- You´ll find me in one of the "average" for you prolly "pleb" topics, let me know if you come around and i´ll roll out the red carpet. Cya

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Reply to Adds on Home Page, Why? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This image could not be loaded... [e digicons]:troll:[/e] that is what i get, after the page loads up for a minute. Im not complaining im just counting the extra seconds for the page to load each year. It got to a point where i open up wincustomize and make a coffee in the meantime, when i come back it will be loaded, now showing me this message about the ad you guys get, just that the page was not able to load it. Which is good since i dont want to see it anyways,

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Reply to I like metro, but I hate Metro in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

they have one its called Start10. Tipp: Also you are able to bring the fullscreen Metro windows8.x interface back in Windows10 How: Klick Start - Settings - Personalize - Start there is a slider to activate start in Fullscreen. activate it. When you open it in fullscreen , you will find two buttons on the bottom left side of it one is for shutdown that other one is the list where you find your stuff organized alphabetically<br /

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Reply to Any E.T.A. For WindowBlinds (and SKS) 10 yet ?? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="6" id="3588645"] WindowBlinds 10 is in development. I don't have an exact time of when a beta will be available, but we're working to get it done as soon as possible. [/quote] wonder why you did not just stick to the already exisiting topics. Like WindowBlinds and Windows 10 <a title="Windows 10 Compa

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Reply to Limit W10’s intrusiveness with AntiSpy. Free. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I was not speaking about Ashampoo AntiSpy it does the job it claims to do. However even if you stop MS snuffing - It ( Ashampoo AntiSpy) does not target your AV from doing so. Would be great if it would though. If i install an Antivirus program i do so to have a certain protection/privacy - but this does no longer apply with some AV´s. That is all im saying, since im more worried that there might be personal/information traded from t

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