JcRabbit

JcRabbit

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Reply to Love / Hate relationship with state of the art PC hardware in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

USB 3.0 is pretty new, and when new controllers started coming out with it they hadn't yet agreed on a standard for the internal motherboard USB 3.0 headers. As a result, the only way most new case's USB 3.0 ports can connect to a USB 3.0 header is via the I/O backplate. Pretty lame. Intel's chipsets won't offer integrated USB 3.0 support until Ivy Bridge (expected to be available in the first half of 2012), so motherboards offering USB 3.0 support these days must do s

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Reply to Application call to windows explorer function broken after applying theme in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Anon137" reply="6" id="2995035"]It would be nice to see paid-for software (Comodo, Windows 7, WinBlinds) play nice.[/quote] Yes, it would, but that won't happen until AV security firms start being held accountable for all the lost sales their false positives eventually cause. [quote who="Anon137" reply="6" id="2995035"]Comodo has served me well for years. The security profile in it is very developed. I'd consider changing my AV/FW if there was solid informa

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Reply to Microsoft on the verge of killing the golden goose in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Apple is an innovator. They choose, create and dictate what people will use. Microsoft, instead of leading, is all over the place following whatever the current trend is, and has been for a few years now. There is no clear and steady direction. Worse, they're pissing off all the developers who've invested their businesses, years of their lives and a ton of money in a specific MS technology, only to see MS throw it all away with the latest fab - *without giving it a second thou

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Reply to So, what's up with Stardock and Object Desktop? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ahah, nah. I committed to classic VB in the beginning for NextSTART (it was to be a simple application, after all, so you use whatever does the job faster), now, after all these years, converting it all to C++ is pretty much undoable, unless I want to go the way of the dodo (like Netscape did when they decided to re-write their browser from the ground up - took them so long that by the time they finished IE was already the dominant browser). Not that I couldn't switch to C++ if I

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Reply to So, what's up with Stardock and Object Desktop? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="80" id="2991489"]As a result, only the developers who went on to become full time with us have been able to keep improving the programs they were involved in because those programs were sufficiently popular to sustain development.[/quote] "The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. All of it? Well, not entirely. One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders." Hey. I&#39

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Reply to So, what's up with Stardock and Object Desktop? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Hankers" reply="17" id="2991114"]Not disagreeing one bit with what you said Jorge but what I see as an issue is the groundhog day repeating of the same line over and over Ad infinitum.[/quote] Hehe, yes, I know first hand how it can be a pain, and that's why I also mentioned 'patience'. :-) [quote who="Hankers" reply="17" id="2991114"]Things will get done when they get done and not before they are ready. These public displays of venting will not h

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Reply to So, what's up with Stardock and Object Desktop? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I never jump into threads like these for obvious reasons, but there is something I would like to point out: in my opinion, long time users like gmknobl and c242 should be cherished, not driven away. When they point the finger and are vocal about being displeased with the current state of affairs, they are only stating what a lot of other users and customers think but don't have the will to say out loud. These users, on the other hand, truly care. They have remained loyal customers

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Reply to Download.com - The New Home For Bloatware in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I know for a fact that they're keeping an eye on user's and developers reactions, and I think it's slowly sinking in that they've made a huge mistake with this one (nobody is above it, although they should have known better in the first place)... lets see how it turns out.

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Reply to How Long Have You Been Here? in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="73" id="2984975"]...and Mian and Toasty ...the original owners of skinz.org [couple of guys from South Oz, as I recall]...[/quote] Weren't they the ones who did eFX too, IIRC? That's how I got into this: eFX -> WindowBlinds -> What, nothing to make skinnable menus? Let me do that myself (ta-da, NextSTART was born).

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Reply to blank icons for all the *.doc-files in WinExplorer in IconPackager WinCustomize Forums

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Shell Icons is used by Windows to customize *some* of the icons used by the shell. If you delete the Shell Icons key, Windows will simply use the default icons after the next reboot. You can find a (incomplete and old) list of what the numbers in Shell Icons do HERE .

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Reply to How Long Have You Been Here? in Community WinCustomize Forums

I think I still have those logs in a backup somewhere... :) I particularly remember one non-business log where he was chatting up some girl and tries to impress her by stating out of the blue how 'he had just fired someone'. The man was obsessed with power, lol. Jan is currently a fugitive from US justice and thought to be living somewhere in the Ukraine... Remember those fake 'your computer is infected' and 'your PC is being scanned' pop ups, a few years ago,

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Reply to How Long Have You Been Here? in Community WinCustomize Forums

I've been with Wincustomize since 3/25/2001 and I'm member number 261. :) For those who still don't know the story, at the end of the year 2000 Wincustomize still did not exist and Skinz.org was *the* place to be, as Customize.org had been before that. Windows customization was still very much a niche market and the dot.com bubble had just burst. <a href="http://Skinz.org

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Reply to blank icons for all the *.doc-files in WinExplorer in IconPackager WinCustomize Forums

If that doesn't solve it, note that the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\IconHandler blank icon fix is for *executable* (.exe) files only. For .doc files, here is what you can try: Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc Look at the (Default) entry in the right panel, it will have something stored in it (here it's Word.Document.8). Taking Word.Document.8 as the example, the next step would be to go to see if the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8\shellex\IconHan

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Reply to Happy Birthday, Jorge! in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="7" id="2983999"] Member 261 (hope I didn't make a mistake this time!), You got it right THIS time...[/quote] But he had to get *something* wrong... it's Winstep Xtreme and Nexus *Ultimate*, not Nexus Extreme, lol :-P Thanks, everybody. :) [e digicons]:blush:[/e] 45 years, wow. I was 18 just the other day, lol. Thanks to all the booze (alcohol preserves) I swear I don't look a day older than 44. :-P

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Reply to many issues in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Winstep also redirects to Cnet's Download.com, and probably for the same reason Stardock does: not because we're cheap or we're trying to save bandwidth usage, but because Download.com is essentially the only download site that is still visited by millions of users. By focusing and re-directing to Download.com, Winstep and Stardock applications climb up to the top places on their 'most popular' charts, and thus become more visible to peopl

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