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This is something that should have been natively implemented in Windows *a long time ago*. Ultramon has been doing this for ages, even if by using the trick of 'stitching' different wallpapers in memory. Windows 8 seems to have some nice new features. Unfortunately Metro, and especially Microsoft's stubbornness in forcing users into it and not allowing them to turn it off and revert to the classic Windows UI, is going to ensure Windows 8 is DOA. Microsoft needs to

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AHAHAHA! Great video ROTFL

Reply to List of features removed in Windows 8 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="18" id="3146859"]well.. seriously don't see the big deal regarding wmp... don't people just use vlc?[/quote] Hey, might as well remove Explorer then. People can always use LiteStep. ;-) It's not just WMP, it's their current complete disregard for backwards compatibility. Go check the list of stuff that has been removed in Windows 8.

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="3146836"]Just for fun: [/quote] Ehehehe! That brings back some memories. :-)

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Well, the very first Winstep application was NextSTART, back in 1999, a time when WB was still in beta and hadn't even reached version 1.0. Sometime later Winstep also released WorkShelf, which, back then, was just the Shelf (tabbed dock) plus the desktop modules. An independent dock application, which would be called Nexus, was planned from the beginning, but I ended up taking a very looooong time to actually start working on it. So 'Nexus' kind of became synonymo

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[quote who="c242" reply="15" id="3146812"]The new windows 8 explorer:[/quote] Eheheh. That has the Metro look. :)

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="13" id="3146726"]Absolutely, JC. Fantastic software... and the skinning module might just happen. You never know![/quote] Hey... old timers will still remember the mythical 'Nexus dock' saga... it took some time, but I always keep my promises. And look at it go now! :)

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[quote who="Sinperium" reply="2" id="3146448"]I think their goal is to develop separate OS's for the business and individual user and to leverage out the power user and small business user who doesn't invest in the corporate client.[/quote] I don't think that's the whole story. I think Microsoft wants two major things: 1. Dominate the tablet market as they do the desktop market. Their plan seems to be to make desktop users get used to the new Windows

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lol

List of features removed in Windows 8 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

According to THIS article in The Register , Microsoft will remove the ability Windows Media Player has to play DVDs in Windows 8. But that is NOT by far the only feature that will be removed from Windows 8. We all know about the missing Start Menu already, but THIS list

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Two hours remaining!

Reply to Winstep Xtreme for half price ($19.95) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Not yet, still working on it. Not that this stops some people (e.g.; Xiandi :) ) from skinning it, who simply edit the configuration files manually (as it has to be done with 99.9% of skinnable software out there). Hardcore skinners will be... hardcore skinners. :)

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Only twelve more hours to go on this promotion. Get it from BitsDuJour while it's still hot! ;-) More information regarding Winstep Xtreme can be found HERE and a quick peek at what's new in v12.2 is also strongly recommended. <img src="http

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="11" id="3145897"]Is it possible to buy next years updates to Winstep now?[/quote] Sorry, not possible, for a variety of reasons. In the end this works to your advantage too, as for you (and everyone else) to renew every year I have to keep adding cool new stuff to Winstep software. :-)

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="6" id="3145630"]The Nexus Weather widget works using the METAR code for location. [/quote] Correction: NOAA (METAR), Weather.com, MSDN and Google. Just in case one falls over - I got sick of this happening so I just added some built-in resilience. ;-)

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[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="10" id="3145686"]Now I am off to transfer money to claim my share of the assets of a now dead long lost distant relative from Nigeria who apparently had millions and didn't leave a will....[/quote] LOL! Some people have all the luck! ;-)

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="66" id="3144079"]Ok, I switched the page file and temps back to the SSD, not noticing any real difference in speed.[/quote] It's there, don't worry. :)

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Wow!

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[quote who="Uvah" reply="14" id="3143947"]I think JC has it, the weather tab.[/quote] Hey... Nice idea... :)

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="63" id="3143725"]Is a page file used all the time when you have 8 GB of ram?[/quote] Virtual memory is. You have no control when a page is committed to disk, that's up to the OS. IIRC, older 'stale' pages are normally committed to disk after a while, regardless of how much RAM you have. [quote who="MadDeez" reply="62" id="3143722"]If the people at Corsair recommend not putting those files on my SSD, I'm going to take their advic

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[quote who="MadDeez" reply="60" id="3143651"]and an SSD will start to noticeably lose its speed once it becomes more than half full so why put temp files and such on it? that's not my opinion, that came from Corsair and OCZ.[/quote] In that case, why put any files on it? According to that theory, nothing is faster than a totally empty SSD. :) TRIM and garbage collection ensure that what you mention no longer happens or is largely irrelevant. Corsair and OCZ might have said

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Yes, temp files and the page file do take up disk space - however, they are also the files that benefit the most from living in an SSD. Think about it: when is the page file used? All the time! When an application is minimized, after a while part of that application's memory space is paged out to disk, even on systems with lots of memory. When you return to the application, that data that was written to the page file must be paged into memory again. Ever run a game and the

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[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="53" id="3143107"]Jorge, I'm not in raid and only have 120 GB ssd.[/quote] Same thing. With normal usage your SSD will last about 5 years. When was the last time you kept the same hard disk for 5 years? Defrag is a no-no for SSDs because it moves a *lot* of data around with *zero* benefits on SSDs. Other than that, just use your SSD as you would any other disk drive, and enjoy the speed benefits. :)

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Ah, come on, you really don't need to do that and it kind of defeats the purpose of having an SSD. My temp files and page file are all on my SSD RAID. Each of the three drives in the RAID array has over 19,400 power on hours (that's more than 2 years), had almost 5 TB written to it and still shows only 97% in the SMART media wearout indicator attribute (100% is a brand new drive).

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="42" id="3139405"]I've never been able to tell a performance difference (or even benchmark) between IDE and AHCI.[/quote] Difference is slight, probably not very noticeable in real world usage unless you are heavily multitasking. AHCI does support Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which IDE mode does not. This frees the CPU to do other tasks while the SSD has several operation in queue, for instance.