CobraA1

CobraA1

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Reply to Office 2010 Launches Today in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Off the top of my head, one function I use a lot in Outlook, that's now hidden, is the ability to edit someone else's email[/quote] Well, you can always add it to the quick launch bar, or in the case of Office 2010, customize the ribbon to add it. I'd say it's missing by default because almost nobody really uses it. For most people, if they want to edit a message, they're forwarding it, and the message becomes editable when forwarding. Yeah, there's a lot of people who

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Reply to Office 2010 Launches Today in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The ribbon is now customizable, for those who don't know - you can ararrange the various tabs and items and add/delete/hide them as well. "You still have to swap ribbon modes constantly and dig around for certain functions just to get stuff done, which defeats half the point of it. Dig where? 99% of the functionality is under one of the tabs. That's not much digging. Not any more than the countless menus and dialog boxes 2003 and below had. As far as Out

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Reply to ImpulseTV is Here! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]No idea who started it but its refering to shooting things (guns, phasers or lighting bolt in WoW) by the sound.[/quote] k, thanks. Was wondering about that - never heard them described that way.

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Reply to ImpulseTV is Here! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Very nice - except for one thing . . . . . . full screen should be full screen. Not 9/10ths of the screen with some buttons at the bottom. Please make the buttons fade & hide with the rest of the on screren elements. Not meaning to be overly critical, though - it is a great new feature :). And seems to perform very well, the video seems smooth so far.

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Reply to Bing is better in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]Until Bing can offer some serious innovations it'll just be another search engine.[/quote] What kind of innovations need to be done? Search has always been ridiculously simple: A search box and a button to start the search. It's awfully hard to be innovative when the best form of the product is the KISS principle taken to its logical conclusion. The only thing they can really do is to very carefully add features in a way that dosn't distract people from the sear

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Reply to 10 ways that Vista is even more annoying now that Windows 7 is out. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm surprised you didn't mentioned the "sxs" folder, that would have been what I consider a valid point since they don't tell you before installing that this folder is going to eat your free space on the system partition as a everhungry monster, with little to no counter options to get around that[/quote] It's basically a compatibility feature found in XP. I think Vista/7 do something a bit differently? Not sure. One of the big, big issues with older OSes is something c

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Reply to WindowBlinds 7: Brad's quick demo in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

IMHO sometimes people want something different too - having small variants on the same thing is nice, but I think there are some people out there who don't mind a crazy skin occasionally. Seeing the same thing all of the time can get a bit boring. But being able to add textures and recolor Aero and existing skins is very nice :).

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Reply to 10 ways that Vista is even more annoying now that Windows 7 is out. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]Well, the place to install programs is "Program Files", and that's where most users install their apps, so programs should play nice with that folder restrictions.[/quote] They should, yes. And newer software generally does. But a lot of older software doesn't. This is especially true for games, as most games are not maintained indefinitely. This is in stark contrast to regular apps, which are updated on a fairly regular basis. It's very unlikely I won't update

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Reply to 10 ways that Vista is even more annoying now that Windows 7 is out. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

My thoughts: [quote]Reason #1: Nothing is ever responding[/quote] Yeah, the shell doing that is pretty silly. Win7 fixes that. Although that won't fix individual apps that are locking up. Firefox still locks up badly on my system. [quote]Reason #2: The UAC[/quote] It didn't bother me so much, but it's good to know Win7 improves it a lot :). There's no going back to nothing, though - a ZDNet blogger <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27234&am

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Reply to Purchase 32 or 64 windows 7 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]There isn't any single good reason to keep buying a 32 bit OS today.[/quote] I have a netbook with an Atom. But, other than that, you're right. Well, and apparently people with Photoshop: [quote]For example my converter for *.tga 32-bit to *.png 32-bit, Photoshop plug-ins[/quote] humm, strange, but okay, Photoshop must be doing something at low levels of the CPU (at the register level) for something like that to be affected. I guess they're proba

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Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

That's the thing about Windows - they have to deal with such an enormous variety of configurations, and inevitably some fall through the cracks. Sorry to hear you had some troubles. [quote] My bank account is getting low and dropping an extra $100 for a better supported card would be a hard knock to take.[/quote] Well, if you do decide to get a new one, Tiger Direct is selling a lot of sub-$100 cards, many of them far superior than the one you have right now. It's actuall

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Reply to Object Desktop 2010 Preview in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Fences Pro looks great =). Can't wait to have my icons automatically organized. I just hope Icon Packager is less flaky this time around. Haven't tried it in Win7 yet, but with XP I had some major issues . I'll probably wait for the upcoming OD to try it again.

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Reply to Purchase 32 or 64 windows 7 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]However some of my programs which I use every day does not support the x64 Windows. So I returned back to x86.[/quote] I'd be curious to know what they are. My experience is that 32 bit support is excellent in x64 Windows. With the exception of some firewalls and antiviruses, the transition was very smooth. And by now, the antiviruses and firewalls all have 64 bit support. Well, except maybe Sunbelt, I don't know w

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Reply to nudity vs violence in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]The problem is that people can't accept video games as an entertainment medium on the same level as movies, music and books. In my observations in both the media and political circles video games are portrayed as something that is for children only. Adults don't play video games, only children do, and as such no adult content should ever be included in a video game. This is merely a case of an outdated understanding of the medium, and will solve itself with the slow attrition

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Reply to nudity vs violence in Everything Else Stardock Forums

We do live in a pretty religious society. Yeah, that includes me. So we can't just wave off religion and ignore it. Everybody has a right to be represented in a society, including religious people. It doesn't make much sense to ignore religious people, especially when most people claim to be religious. Love us or hate us, you have to live with us. It's a free country. And you know what? The biggest reason for ratings in the first place is to place par

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Reply to nudity vs violence in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]You know, I'm not religious... I'm primarily agnostic... but blaming religion for everything is not the answer to anything. I primarily don't like these arguments because bad stuff comes out of anything and trying to put the blame on something is distracting from the darkness that can come from anywhere.[/quote] Agreed. Blaming "religion" is a non-argument. Religious people can be great people, and non-religious people can be horrible people. Even scientific principles

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Reply to Warning to university students and educators purchasing Windows 7 from Digital River in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

This is why I always get the DVD. Even though I got the download, they gave me the option of getting a disk as well, so I did that. IMHO Digital River has always been a bit questionable. I use them, but I have to be very proactive at making sure everything gets done right whenever I do. Their 100% unnecessary "wrapper" around the Win7 install reminded me of how poor they are. I'd probably blame Digital River more for this issue than Microsoft. On Windows 7 now,

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Reply to Win 7 UAC is driving me crazy in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Maybe from a different point of view may help: I like knowing when something wants to access my system files. That's how most stuff gets in, by overwriting the system files. If I disable UAC, how will I know if that new program I've downloaded is trying to access files it shouldn't? BTW - with most new installers on legit software, they offer the choice between being accesible to all users or being accessible to just the current user. If you choose to install f

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Reply to Win 7 UAC is driving me crazy in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote] I personally don't care what it does that I can't do for myself.. [/quote] Until, of course, something happens. Which hasn't happened yet for you, but for many people it has. [quote] Ive had it turned off since day 1 on vista, havent had any issues whatsoever with security following the normal security precautions and using common browsing and computing sense. [/quote] [quote] Backwards Maxim: Most people

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