JcRabbit

JcRabbit

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Reply to Invisible Programs Running? in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Gaspershooters" reply="15" id="3654721"]I think there is reason why it's not commercial viable for them either to die down or being on niche markets. [e digicons]:X[/e] [/quote] The Winstep Nexus Dock is in active development (it's also fully compatible with Windows 10, by the way) and has over 2.5 million downloads at Cnet *alone* (plus 1.15 million at Baixaki, 1.14 million at Softonic, and so on). ObjectDock (which was already in the market for q

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Reply to Where is the non-Cnet download? in Fences WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="10" id="3653245"]I refuse to use C-net to download anything these days.... got bitten once with [no opt out] bundled crap that I neither wanted or needed.[/quote] This is why I (Winstep) stopped re-directing to Download.com as soon as possible. Even though the Winstep software there was not bundled with anything, I started getting a lot of emails from users that refused to download from Download.com. Since users who actually bother writing are alwa

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Reply to Where is the non-Cnet download? in Fences WinCustomize Forums

This is why I no longer re-direct downloads of Winstep software to Cnet. MarkStalher, the advantages for software companies are two-fold: by re-directing downloads of your software to Download.com you a) save a ton of expensive bandwidth and b ) help your software climb up on their top 10 charts, thus making it even more visible to Download.com's 113 million monthly visitors (at the time, these days it's nothing like that) which in turn attracted even more new users. So, you h

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Reply to Windows Cumulative Update KB3194496 Installation Issues in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

lol... Usually I jump to the latest version on Windows pretty quickly, if only because I need to make sure Winstep software is working properly on it. The best way to do that still is to run it on the latest Windows version 24/7. But not this time. I absolutely hated Win 8.x, and Windows 10 gives me the creeps. Instead I'm relying on two Virtual Windows 10 machines and a physical, secondary, Windows 10 PC. The Windows 10 VMs allow me to test Winstep software from my main W

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Reply to Windows Cumulative Update KB3194496 Installation Issues in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Didn't Microsoft fire their entire QA department recently? lol From what I read in The Register, they are now looking for someone thick skinned enough to handle this mess (i.e.; become the boss of their Windows Update department). Requirements are 'ability to reduce chaos, stress'. Seriously, check it out (lol) HERE . Microsoft has become the joke of the Industry. It

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Reply to Can't add a comment to a skin in Forum Issues WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="LightStar" reply="1" id="3652952"]You might try logging out and back in and see it that helps though.[/quote] Thanks LightStar. I did that when I switched to Chrome though. Didn't help. Sigh.

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Can't add a comment to a skin in Forum Issues WinCustomize Forums

I'm trying to add a comment to a Winstep theme posted on the Winstep section here: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/winstep/808 Unfortunately every time I click the Submit button the page simply refreshes (a # character being added to the URL in the address bar) and my comment doesn't get posted. I'm properly logged in and I don't see any error message. Tried it in Firefox and in Chrome with the

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Reply to SoundPackager setup file (1.31) identified as WS.Reputation.1 virus by Symantec in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="6" id="3650639"]Perhaps an individual developer (vs a company) should sue them in small claims court for defamation. They are in a position of authority and are making statements which cause harm afterall... [/quote] Sometimes I wish I could... but I'm in Portugal. Don't know why developers in the US haven't come up with a class action suit yet, though. There are lots of blogs from developers on the web complaining about this.</

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Reply to SoundPackager setup file (1.31) identified as WS.Reputation.1 virus by Symantec in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

As Jafo said, get another AV program. Further advice: Run, don't walk! Symantec is absolute crap these days. WS.Reputation1 as had developers in arms for YEARS, since it is the equivalent of 'guilty until proven innocent'. It does NOT mean that the AV heuristics have found something suspicious (as in anything!) in that file. No, not at all! It simply means that users of that particular AV solution have not seen/run that version of the software enough times

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Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Kazriko" reply="1" id="3650095"]Honestly, what you've laid out there is precisely the only reason that I keep thinking we need to try a minimum basic income. I'm not sold on the idea really, but it may be the least bureaucratic way to transition to the automation future.[/quote] We have a minimum wage here in Portugal. Doesn't really help having one if it's 500 Euros (about $560) *per month*. You can't live on that, you merely scrap by (well, at least y

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Reply to August 2016 Desktop Screen Shots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Not sure if this happens to others as well, but (and I think it's because I'm using AdBlock) when I click on any screenshot stored at PhotoBucket, all I get is a really small version of the original screenshot, not the full size thing. PITA. Have you guys considered using Imgur instead ?

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Reply to What’s going to be in the “Anniversary Update”? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I had to download the update directly from MS since it wasn't available from Windows Update yet. It installed without issues on my physical Windows 10 machine, but when I tried to update my two Windows 10 Oracle Vbox VMs in my main PC (still running Windows 7, btw) it failed with a 'not enough disk space' error. The VMs have 32 GB virtual disks with about 17 GB

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Reply to WindowFX 6 Is Not Playing Nicely with Winstep Xtreme in Other Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Neil (Banfield), want to work with me to figure out why this is happening? It really shouldn't, at first sight there is nothing special about that particular window - other than auto-redraw being true so the slider controls do not flicker when moving them and the window being sub-classed so the slider controls do not automatically paint the opaque 'gray' window background. But then, many other Winstep dialogs do this as well, without any side effects when using WindowFX.</

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Reply to Winstep Nexus Dock v16.6 Released! in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="3" id="3641316"]I like the update function.[/quote] Me too. That's going to shave at least 16 MB (!) per download off future updates. :) And have you tried the new Fast Boot feature already? It's going to blow your socks off too. Not even I was expecting such a huge impact in loading times after a reboot or log in, especially under Windows 10.

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Reply to Ticketing system web site and fences 3 with Win 10 Insider program broken in Fences WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="bdmeyer44" reply="3" id="3639782"]Actually any developer with large companies that want their products to work with new MS Updates DOES work with the developer preview, that's what it's for. As you (SHOULD) know.[/quote] Really? Are you a developer? Because I am. :) Insider Previews are NOT for developers, they are for *users* to find - and report to Microsoft - issues in those insider previews of Windows. At most, developers will only begin looking for any

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