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Agrabren

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Reply to Fences disappear in Fences WinCustomize Forums

Bumping this, since I'm running the latest that Impulse thinks is available to me. But I'm encountering the problem on Win7 RC. Specifically, it happened when I accidentally started playing with wallpapers in Win7. I had selected a new wallpaper set, which would change pictures every 30 minutes. Now, I can't get my fences back. They're "there", but completely hidden. Double-clicking causes them to flicker and reappear, but trying to double-click one when they should be invisible brings them v

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Reply to ITunes and Object Dock Plus in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

When you run any application "Elevated" in Vista, non-elevated apps will be unable to process messages for it. This is not an ObjectDock issue, but a design decision on Microsoft's part for Vista. Normally, you'd run ObjectDock non-elevated, and any shortcut that needs elevation would ask when you launch. Otherwise, any app that runs elevated will not see SetPoint (or any other software) unless that software is launched elevated as well. If ObjectDock needs to be elevated, this is an is

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Reply to iTunes launched from dock in Vista causes scheme to change to basic in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

What version of iTunes are you using, and what are the shortcut properties in your dock? As far as IE goes, you might be running an old version of Java, which is known to knock Vista out of Aero Glass. Try either updating or uninstalling your Sun Java Runtime, if you have it. That may also be causing iTunes to hiccup, as they can browse the Apple site.

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Reply to Multi Monitor setups in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

the_great_deceiver (and Stardock): I think the majority of us would rather Stardock fixed Desktop Collage first to handle randomizing, or multiple photo directories. But yes, I run two monitors, and they always get the aspect ratio wrong on the second display. Would be nice if they'd make it handle the whole thing. Would be *REALLY* nice if someday, they'd open-source something like that. Everyone with

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Reply to help withs .dreams in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

Make sure you're using 32-bit color. Do the title bars of your windows appear transparent? Or are they solid-color. If they're not transparent, you're not getting the full aero effect, you're getting the compatability mode.

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Reply to GDI Object leak when switching dreams in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

It still leaks, but it's much slower, and more intermittent. After running for over an hour, it leaked about 350 GDI objects. Loop: ovals.dream box.dream (This is the bouncing box one, I just renamed it to make it easier to script) I don't have any other dynamic dreams available to me to test on that machine, but a leak still occurred. Sometimes, the GDI handle count would drop a bit after a few moments, but over time, it didn't drop back to normal.

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GDI Object leak when switching dreams in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

I'm running a stability test on Dreamscene/Deskscape, because of the convenience of calling "start Xxx.dream" from a batch script every 10 seconds. Each new dream, between one and three GDI objects are leaked. After an overnight stress run, the GDI starts to fall apart. These leaks are coming from explorer.exe, where the dreamscene and deskscape DLLs are loaded. I am not using any dynamic dreams for this test, these are a mix of MPG and WMV. There does not seem to be a direct relationship betwee

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Reply to $4,800 Phone Bill for an iPhone That Wasn't Turned On in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Joe, they were roaming, so each connection had a "roaming" fee tacked on. It wasn't the number of megabytes they downloaded, it was the number of times the iPhone established a connection to check. And yes, you can turn off an iPhone, but you need to read the instructions, something most Apple users aren't as familiar with.

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Reply to $4,800 Phone Bill for an iPhone That Wasn't Turned On in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The problem is, does AT&T just turn off their service? You're wife goes on a shopping spree, and you get a "CALL". On your "PHONE", which they had put to sleep. They didn't turn the phones back on during the trip, so there's no way for AT&T or Apple to tell them they're doing the wrong thing. Ideally, the phone should be set, by default, not to roam. Force the user to acknowledge roaming before continuing. If anyone can agree with this theory, the "big bad phone company" isn't at fault. Apple is

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Reply to iPhone Unlocking Software in Action in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The iphone is a unique problem. I don't believe AT&T is subsidizing the cost of the units. For other phones, the carrier (not just AT&T) use the contract to help pay for the phone. Unlocking the phone is meaningless to them once you've signed up for a two-year contract, because that's what AT&T wants to have. As for why Apple signed with AT&T? They needed a deal with a carrier to offer some of the features (only special one that I know of is visual voicemail, which is *NOT* available on

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Reply to Downloading Master Skin in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

We have to wait till Stardock gets in on Monday and back to work on fixing their website. It's fairly obvious something was changed on their website, and it broke. It sucks, cause I wanted to play with the dream I bought today over the weekend, so I might instead support ticket for a refund, the "impulse buy" nature of it has warn off over the hours since I paid for it.

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Reply to Run Dreamscenes at windows startup in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Mahesh31, does this happen with any .dream, or just the dynamic content? Try rebooting and leaving the system logged in for one full minute. There is a delay for resuming dreamscene after a reboot, and dynamic scenes have a longer delay if I remember correctly. If it still doesn't resume, then I'm not sure.

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Reply to DreamScene and Windows XP in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

It's been proven that all versions of Windows Vista are capable of animated desktops, the underlying OS is the same between all versions of Vista. Microsoft is not offering this feature to anyone but Ultimate users because that's the level of the OS they decided this feature was available for. It's not s scam, it's a pricing model. Each higher version of Vista comes with more bells and whistles. There have already been threads on here with people asking about getting DreamScene and DeskScape to

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Reply to DreamScene and Windows XP in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Currently, nobody is really working on it that I'm aware of, and it would have to be done completely differently than it's done on Vista. With Vista, the desktop surface can be accessed and rendered directly onto, but on XP, this isn't the case. If you want to simulate it, you can try the VLC player, and set it to play on the background. This would be about as close to animated backgrounds on XP as I've heard people doing. I would not expect Stardock to be putting any effort into this, as it wou

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Reply to dreamscene problem in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

As a matter of fact, the current #1 link about green messes has all the good links... Added here for thread completeness. (Would be really nice if we could get a FAQ with known issues and their resolutions, such as the codec issues) https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=154701#1230832

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Reply to Dreamscene displaying green mess in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Fortunately, this issue has appeared in the forums before, but you just didn't know what to search for... (It also doesn't help that the forum search is pretty weak... ffdshow shows no results) Try this thread: https://forums.wincustomize.com/?forumid=429&aid=152154#1206021

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