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Reply to WinCustomize Master Skinner Spotlight: LightStar in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Congratulations, Tom! :)

Reply to John Fisher who we know as willistuder in Community WinCustomize Forums

RIP :(

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Thanks Hankers and Jafo. [quote who="jkbeard" reply="77" id="3708436"]That you are an early user and you feel entitled to ignore Internet etiquette, apparently. Your research demonstrates that you are willing to do battle to defend your "right" to abuse your hosts.[/quote] No, what this - and now the replies by the forum administrators above - should tell you is that you're assuming a LOT about things you know nothing about. I specifically said in my post 'Stardock and Winstep

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="jkbeard" reply="74" id="3708422"]Enough with the FUD and advertising for competing products. Most forums on the WWW would delete your posts and band you by IP address for that.[/quote] Jkbeard. Member Number: 331635 JcRabbit, Member Number: 261 This alone should tell you a lot. As for the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), show me ONE SINGLE INSTANCE where I have done that. As for 'advertising', I am writing from the Wincustomize forum

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="jkbeard" reply="71" id="3708401"]I use OD under Windows 10 Pro and love it. I tried Winstep for a few weeks and found the tabbed docks pre-populated with useless links, large, and difficult to customize. On my Object Desktop tabbed dock, I have ten or so tabs, each with ten or so apps, and can't give those up. Yes, Winstep's scaled dock at the bottom of the screen was a clone of OD's scaled dock and seemed to scale when Windows 10 was closing a window and such, b

Reply to Why companies with long-term plans must make their customers top priority in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote quoting="post"]What’s more, we knew that once we jumped into the Windows market with Object Desktop for Windows, our desktop enhancements could very well fall prey to Microsoft when it developed new versions of Windows. That is, the ideas we would come up with and implement for Object Desktop for Windows might end up as “features” in future Windows editions.[/quote] And that nearly happened with XP. At the time WindowBlinds was Stardock's 'cash cow' (t

Reply to March 2018 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Nice! I really think LighStar's new Transport skin is an almost perfect match for Winstep's Evolve theme:

Reply to March 2018 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="13" id="3707500"]I just skin it via the ini files. Theme builder sucks.[/quote] You mean the old 9.5 version of Winstep Xtreme, the last version with skinning settings in the GUI which was released back in 2009 and predates Windows 10 by almost a century? Yeah, running that on Windows 10 is probably not a very good idea. :) When I started coding the new Theme Builder I asked for feedback on it and I got barely anything in return. Considering I *

Reply to March 2018 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Mindy43" reply="12" id="3707498"]The old Winstep theme builder is really awful to work with. It crashes on me all the time, and lose everything even though I've saved it.[/quote] Sorry Mindy. :( Are you using it on Windows 10?

Reply to Happy 17th Birthday, WinCustomize! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Happy birthday, Wincustomize (hey, look at my UserID number!)! :) Just to share a bit more of history: Back in 1998/1999, bandwidth was really, really, expensive (as in a relatively popular site would consume *thousands* of dollars in bandwidth *per month*). Many skinning sites of the time, founded mostly by enthusiasts, eventually fell victim to their own popularity, since they hosted free content and had no form of revenue to pay for the ever increasing bandwidth usage costs

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="jkbeard" reply="62" id="3706926"]But, back to topic, Object Dock is still a really great UI enhancement, Stardock owns it and has the code, developers have reverse-engineering tools such as Visustin, and when the business numbers are right they will do something with Object Dock. Like make a Linux version. [/quote] Linux is definitely not a good environment for commercial applications: it's Open Source, people got used to everything there being free and that is

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

UWP means Universal Windows Platform, and UWP apps are 'sandboxed' applications that were supposed to work on all versions of Windows, from PCs, to tablets to phones. ...except Microsoft gave up on its Windows phone business and now it does not have a Universal Windows Platform anymore. So why are they still moving most of the Windows 10 settings/applications to UWP ? Because UWP apps are just a piece of a much bigger and much more sinister plan to put both users and developer

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Chasbo" reply="55" id="3706803"]It seems strange that OD doesn't work well for some win 10 users and great for others. Could it be certain brands of computers?[/quote] The major incompatibility is with UWP apps, which are alien to the Win32 system. No dock will handle them properly unless it has been re-written to work with Windows 10. You won't be able to add UWP apps to the dock, thus you can't launch them from the dock unless you add an item pointing to a shortc

Reply to Dealing with with the Internet mobs. A guidebook. in Internet WinCustomize Forums

There's a reason these people are called 'snowflakes', they take offense at everything. They like to pretend they are social justice warriors in order to feel good about themselves, but in truth, the only thing they're trying to do is control others by fear. They label everything they don't agree with or is not politically correct as 'hate speech', 'misogyny' and 'racism', and will go out of their way to destroy other people and/or their livelihood. Yet they still think of themselves

Reply to A Death in The WinCustomize Family (edited) in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

RIP Randy. :(

Reply to Need a recommendation on Monitor in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="ithilienranger" reply="18" id="3703171"]Even though it is a bit more expensive, I would go with this one: LG 43UD79-B. The Philips sounds like it has issues with prolonged image retention as well as general quality control issues. On paper it looks great though.[/quote] Second this. I got the LG 43UD79-B literally a week ago and I absolutely love it. 43" is the PERFECT screen size for 4K, anything smaller and you have to enable DPI scaling, which kind of defeats th

Reply to Skinning - an Extinction Level Event in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Steve Jobs *was* Apple. Both times he left the company (first when he was let go and now that he is dead) Apple went downhill fast. I have never seen so many Apple users furious at the company and bad-mouthing Apple as I have been seeing recently, and they used to be rabid fans. To be able to alienate so many of your most devoted users in such a complete way in such a short amount of time, is an accomplishment all by itself. Microsoft is close, though, but not quite yet. High

Reply to Skinning - an Extinction Level Event in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Ahah. You guys are forgetting one thing: until recently, one of Microsoft's main concerns was in preserving backwards compatibility. This is why you can still run 32 bit programs made for Windows 95 under Windows 10, and it's actually a good thing: evolution in Windows is not (usually) forced but rather follows a natural progression, with some older stuff eventually dying of 'old age' simply because nobody uses it any longer. At that point, support for that particular legacy thingy c

Reply to [RESOLVED] Stack docklet icons + 2 on dock missing! (blank or question mark) in Docks WinCustomize Forums

Blank icons, eh? Did you recently install or uninstall Stardock's IconPackager? Open the Windows Registry Editor, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex and see if the subkey 'IconHandler' exists. If it does, delete it then reboot.

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="neone6" reply="30" id="3700087"] As always this have gotten out of proportion. -Instant Panic every time. [e digicons]:O[/e] [e digicons]8O[/e] [e digicons]8|[/e] [e digicons]XO[/e] [e digicons]#:([/e] -It will all be good, don't worry about it. [e digicons]|-)[/e] [e digicons]|-)[/e] [e digicons]|-)[/e] &nb

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="22" id="3700002"]I know that if I were an Intel CPU owner from within that time frame, [which I am] I'd be mightily pissed at the huge performance hit, but I'd also be suspicious.... very suspicious. I mean, why has this only come out now... a 10 year old flaw? And why is it necessary for these CPUs to take a such a big performance hit when patched? Does anybody else smell fish?[/quote] Ok, there appears to be some misunderstanding in wha

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Benchmarks are slowly coming out. Games are hardly affected, since they make very few calls to the Kernel. However, anything that relies heavily on the Kernel - such as file I/O - suffers a big impact, so this will have a massive effect mostly on data centers. For everything else the impact should be fairly minimal. The Windows patches are NOT out yet. The fixes should be a part of the next round of Windows updates though. Linux developers have made it very clear what they tho

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Yep. And since Moore's law has been dead for a long time, a 30% slow down takes us back to the level of CPUs manufactured 10 years ago. So, your brand new $1,000 CPU will now be performing the same as that old CPU you can get on eBay today for $20. Nice, eh? :) EDIT: Except that one will also be 30% slower, so basically, in terms of performance, we're just about ready to go back 10 years in time.

Reply to Inappropriate behavior in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Chasbo" reply="49" id="3698093"]Doing some research and from what I gather Peterson has been misinterpreting C-16. This is according to legal experts. Peterson seems to be a jerk.[/quote] Peterson a jerk? How many videos of him did you see, if any? Just name one or two things he said (with source, please) which, in your opinion, make him a jerk. As for Bill C-16 being misinterpreted... Aren't you perhaps being a bit naive? I think Peterso

Reply to why tiles did not support chinese language? in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="wy59168" reply="3" id="3697312"]Well, that's ten years ago, now is 2017, buddy. ten years ago, I earn about 200 dollars per month. now , I earn 3000-3500 dollars per month. only when you have enough money for living, you will spend money for software. The exchange rate of dollar vs chinese yuan is the mainly reason why people do not buy software.[/quote] While it's true that China has come a very long way