JcRabbit

Reply to Micronut is at it again... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

As far as I know MS stopped pushing Windows 7 systems to upgrade to Windows 10 via Windows Update some time ago. Also running Windows 7 here.

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[quote who="Phoon" reply="41" id="3722264"]I know for a fact that Google has pretty much taken over the K-12 public school systems now. All that is really needed are some major business app developers to jump on a Linux bandwagon to start chipping away at the armor. But as you say.. it is indeed a Chicken and Egg situation..[/quote] The fact that many in the Linux crowd share the (mistaken) belief that software should be free (therefore making them less likely to be turned into paying

Reply to Don't install or upgrade to CCleaner 5.45 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Only goes to prove there is no such a thing as a 'free lunch'. One thing I find amusing though, is that in the article they state: " CCleaner was a program that worked fine out of the box for years but that is not really the case anymore. While the cleaning works as good as it did years ago, recent decisions to push the monitoring functionality, introduce adver

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[quote who="Phoon" reply="39" id="3722249"] License. The software is licensed, not sold. This is pretty much the same for all software. [/quote] Yes, the same way you don't own the story when you buy a book, just the medi

Reply to Micronut is at it again... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Excellent post, anotherside, thanks. The problem with Synofsky, Nadella, etc, is that they won't listen. They're perfectly aware about the problems and have been since the beginning, but they don't care - they ALL think they are Steve Jobs reincarnated and that they know better than their users. In the case of Steve Jobs, this was actually true a lot of the time, but these guys are nothing like him, they're just some deluded and arrogant wanna-be's, all of them.

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Ok, just to clarify one thing: I don't think governments are actively spying on us personally. What I am saying is that if there ever is a regime change in any of the Democratic countries (and it's not as difficult to happen as some of you may think) then ALL the tools they would need to actively monitor you as an individual are already in place . Not that I would be very afraid of my own government trying to spy on me . :) To illustrate why, we have this old Portugues

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[quote who="BigDogBigFeet" reply="17" id="3721958"]Why persist with the tin hats about this?[/quote] You know that saying "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you" ? You can add to that this Niemöller quotation: " First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I w

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[quote who="DaveBax" reply="6" id="3721894"]Guess Jorge didn't know how far behind the times you are. He will learn. Jorge. Ross just learned that the first letter was delivered by Horse. He will catch up.[/quote] LOL. Well, in Ross's defense it is true that MS never clearly stated that this is what they would be doing, but it was obvious where all this 'free' Windows 10 thingy, Office 365, UWP apps, the attempt to kill Win32 applications, etc, was going. An

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[quote who="LightStar" reply="2" id="3721856"] This better now be a forced thing, because if it is I will sue their stupid asses! [e digicons]>:([/e] [/quote] If you can. One (well, me, lol) wonders why nobody ever managed to successfully sue Microsoft because of their forced Windows 10 updates trashing previously working Windows 7 machines.

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Not sure why the surprise, Uvah. The writing has been on the wall for a very long time.

Reply to Rocketdock gallery is closing in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="19" id="3721774"]I probably need to stress that JcRabbit is very much NOT in the wrong posting about the Rocketdock closure or about his Winstep alternative option.[/quote] Thanks for pointing this out once again, Jafo. Sincerely, I don't know what is going on recently, I don't recall this type of 'white-knighting' ('Stardock-knighting'? lol) ever happening when the skinning community wa

Reply to Rocketdock gallery is closing in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="13" id="3721689"]need to get my main PCs up and running again to get maximum benefit from the apps and screen real estate. Although I have my little HP 2-in-1 hooked up to a monitor I'm not getting the best result because it doesn't support the resolution for a 35" ultra wide screen. With a bit of luck my mobo will be returned from warranty, and the part I'm waiting on for the other machine arrives this week.[/quote] I'm waiting for nVidia to f

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[quote who="ALMonty" reply="11" id="3721671"]Sorry I didn't know the free version of OD just has a single dock. If you are making tabbed docks for Nexus similar to OD this would be huge and I'd be interested.[/quote] The tabbed dock in Nexus Ultimate is called the 'Shelf' and goes a bit further than OD tabbed docks, in that each tab in the Shelf/tabbed dock can have a different function (besides the normal one where you manually drag & drop shortcuts like in the dock). For

Reply to Rocketdock gallery is closing in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Gaspershooters" reply="8" id="3721655"]I knew every topic regarding Dock is going to gaslight/hijack by the particular non-Stardock individual. [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] [/quote] First, I was the one who posted this topic. Second, it was posted on Wincustomize which has a Winstep themes section since the very beginning, FYI. Third, you seem to have an axe to grind - if anyone here is ou

Reply to Rocketdock gallery is closing in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="5" id="3721642"]Not to rain on your parade, Jorge, but for those who are interested, RocketDock skins, docklets and icons are also available over at devart . I've not yet checked the RocketDock library over there, having always used ObjectDock and Nexus, but it looks to be fairly comprehensive.[/quote] I'm pretty sure it won't have all the stuff that

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[quote who="ALMonty" reply="2" id="3721628"]I use RocketDock on my Win 10 cause OD runs slow on it. I do have Nexus dock installed but the free version is limited for my liking. OD was the best because you could have multiple docks plus tabbed docks.[/quote] Why are you comparing the paid version of OD to the free version of Nexus? IIRC, the free version of OD also only supported a single dock, and no tabbed docks. :) <a href="http://www.winst

Rocketdock gallery is closing in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Just a heads up to let you guys know that the Rocketdock gallery is going to be taken down on August 6th 2018. The site is currently in Read-Only mode for those who would like to archive their content. This truly saddens me personally, it feels like the end of an era (and Skinz.org all over again). Hundreds of thousands of dock skins, icons, animated icons, etc, are going to disappear from the net forever in one single swoo

Reply to Does Anyone Else Use WaterFox? in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

I used the 64 bit version of Waterfox for a while when Firefox still didn't have a 64 bit version (I keep a lot of tabs open and the 32 bit version of Firefox would quickly hit the 2 GB limit of 32 bit applications). Went back to Firefox when the 64 bit version was released as it solved the running out of memory problem (Mozilla is constantly on top of security updates, etc, so my guess is that it is much safer than Waterfox, but feel free to correct me if I am wrong) but it created a

Reply to Slow PC... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Want to know what IS deliberate? Windows 10 *deliberately* delays the startup of 3rd party applications after a reboot by several seconds. Makes Windows appear to boot faster at the cost of other applications looking MUCH slower. I had to come up with a devious work-around for this, as Winstep software features the type of applications you REALLY want to start at the same time as the Windows desktop.

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Best way to try to figure out what might be slowing startup is looking at the Windows Event log (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Windows Logs -> System) right after a reboot. A lot of stuff is happening so you will have to scroll down until you see events coming from Kernel-General/Kernel-Power, those usually mark the beginning of the startup process. Pay attention to the time elapsed between each event from then on - if the time interval i

Reply to Is there a setting to keep maximized apps on top of dock? in Docks WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="ALMonty" reply="4" id="3715719"]You didn't specify which dock you were using. You had a link to RocketDock so I assumed that was the dock you were using.[/quote] Yep, me too. :)

Reply to FBI requests you restart your router in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="4" id="3715680"]The lesser of two evils?[/quote] Eheh. I guess - we can always ask Edward Snowden what he thinks of all of this. ;) Now seriously, tin foil hats aside, I don't think any of it would have gone public if this really was a sinister plot about two governments fighting for access to our routers.

Reply to May 2018 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Just showing off the new alarm overlays that will be available in the upcoming v18.5 release of Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme :

Reply to Is there a setting to keep maximized apps on top of dock? in Docks WinCustomize Forums

The Winstep Nexus Dock already does that (and much more lol) natively, if you want to try it out. All you need to do is enable the ' Prevent maximized windows from overlapping the dock ' setting.

Reply to FBI requests you restart your router in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There is something VERY fishy about this. It's all over the national news. First it was a Russian threat and it was said the malware would survive a reboot of the routers, so why advise people to reboot them? Until I read that FBI agents apparently seized a key server used in the attack, which explains why a reboot was necessary. This means US authorities now control your router, not the Russians. I feel so much better. :)