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Reply to WindowBlinds 4 features in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

But guess what? There are many more W98/ME boxes and users out there than W2K/XP. That's still a market for Stardock that generates income. Not from you, perhaps, but from others. And Stardock IMO has done an excellent job on making its apps compatible for a variety of MS OS's and hardware. So Stardock evidently has decided to retain that market a while longer which is just smart business IMO. Lack of MS "support" for an OS really doesn't mean squat. The OS still functions and apps sti

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Reply to WindowBlinds 4 features in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Dangeruss makes a good point. I currently run WebBlinds just for the IE toolbar icons. While some skinners make WindowBlinds skins with WebBlind support, or have separate WebBlind files available for download, I usually pick what toolbar icon sets I want independently of the WindowBlind skin. And, as Dangeruss mentioned, there are not that many choices for toolbar icons at present. If a separate program gives the user (as well as the skinner) more options or flexibility to do things as

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Reply to Winona convicted. OJ still free. Just shoot me. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yah, the point was that the LA DA (who is an elected official) wanted to appear tough on "celebrity" crime and went after her full barrel and it was easy pickins. Murder cases are a bit trickier for the DA to try and it's embarassing when they lose, especially if they bungle a case as they did with OJ. Now while Baretta is still cooling his heels in jail, the DA is not assured a conviction. And again, DA's run for re-election periodically so don't underestimate the impact that has on w

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Reply to laws in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What are you talking about? Providing specific facts helps to provide some context to your question and thus the resulting answer(s) might be more relevant. What company has sold your email address to another company and what evidence do you have that this is so?

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Reply to Bullsh*t in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well I work for a living and when money was tight I spent my money on necessities and not on luxuries I couldn't afford and didn't really need. And I didn't bitch about it, because that's the way things were. When someone gave me something for free I appreciated it but didn't expect or demand it as a right. Always, someone has to pay the bills. There's an expression, "beggars can't be choosers" so take that. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/bigsmile.gif" border=0 ALIG

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Reply to PiXtudio ... did i miss something ??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

How sad that a truly generous gesture by Treetog is now the object of apparent criticism from someone who evidently feels ill used in some fashion. If it's not about the money, then what is it about? The "spirit" or principle? What principle is that? You paid for use of an exclusive suite and you've had that. Evidently you previously didn't begrudge Treetog the small fee for the suite or question its value. And now you have a upgraded version but because Treetog made it available for

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Reply to Bullsh*t in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Royalty check? I haven't submitted any skins so that's not an issue. That jibe also is a nonstarter because no one uploads skins here in the anticipation of receiving royalties. The site is no doubt costly to maintain, even with a volunteer admin staff, and subscriptions are available for those who wish to support the expense of running the site, bandwidth, hardware, etc. That's an increasingly popular model for sites since ads alone do not support site costs. Additionally, so

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Reply to Bullsh*t in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I guess you've concluded there's no possibility that the volume of traffic and use of this site has substantially increased in a year and a half, impacting both speed and access. (My experience in accessing this site suggests otherwise, BTW.) Perhaps WC bought another server (with that bs WC subscription money) just for a lark rather than actual need due to increased demand? Have you contributed to this site by submitting skins? Do you have at least one licensed copy of a stardock

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Reply to Why charge subscription ? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mukul: would you like to be characterized as "the richer one who came with a silver tablespoon?" No doubt in your country there are people who would regard you as precisely that, as your "poverty" evidently allows you the necessities of life and a university education. Your characterization that suggests that anyone who can presently afford a WC subscription, or to purchase Windowblinds, was "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" as the saying goes, is incorrect. As Pelf points out, t

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Reply to Customize with Registry; why not? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There are indeed tweak programs (Xteq? for one if I got the name right) that allow you to customize things by tweaking the registry, like customizing the IE window title, which I did manually in regedit. However, most users emphasize caution in using even those programs since unknowledegable users can still wreak havoc on their own systems if they aren't careful. Mucking about with the registry is not something to be done or recommended lightly. Some things may be simple and not so ris

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Reply to Snipers in DC in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The stereotypic view that everyone in the US has an arsenal and is packing heat is ridiculous, frankly. Just yesterday in British Columbia a gov't employee killed two fellow employees and himself with a registered handgun. Must be the liberal Canadian gun laws to blame? As bakerstreet observed, "The more I read this, the more I think a gun control discussion on this thread really dilutes the outrage one should have about someone who could do this."

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Reply to WinCustomize Browser 1.0 released quietly in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Just to clarify: you didn't pay for the same thing twice if you bought an OD and a WC subscription. Did you pay again for the Skinbrowser when the program told you your subscription had expired? If so, then it appears that you may have paid twice for the same thing. (Now I'm confused, lol.) If that's the case, you may want to email WC support directly to clarify and straighten things out.

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Reply to WinCustomize Browser 1.0 released quietly in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

OD and the WC SkinBrowser are two separate apps so you didn't pay twice for the same thing. Which app told you that the subscription had expired? The WC site has a two year subscription and the Browser comes with the subscription. If that's the app that gave you the notice, it's a glitch of some sort. I'd suggest uninstalling it and downloading the most recent version. (See WC Browser link under the Resources Box on the left hand of this page.) See if that helps. <img src="http://image

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Reply to Just wanted to say Hi! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Howdy, Blaylok. Um, I think Kinrik just about covered everything...in fact, perhaps that should be copied and turned into a messageboard FAQ or something. Anyway, don't let the natives scare ya. <img src="

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Reply to XP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OK, since davad70 brought it up, if using the XP walls are wrong since it is copyrighted material, what about the XP logo throbber I downloaded from this site to use with WebBlinds? I previously hadn't really given any thought about the walls being illegal to distribute, so now I'm wondering about the other MS graphic stuff, logos, etc. So what's the distinction (if any) between distributing the walls vs. the logos and other MS (presumably copyrighted) graphics? Also, is it

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Reply to Site is slow? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Worldcom had a major outage today (see Reuters news wire) and that impacted the net so some places were normal to get to, others really slow and others just unreachable. Dunno if that may contributed to the slowness of access to this site today, but I suspect it may have since today seemed the worst since my cookies were stuck and I couldn't access at all.

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