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Reply to Should Stardock fix Microsoft's UAC? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

As the developer of Winstep Xtreme , I feel for Stardock as their pains with the UAC are my pains as well (and, without a doubt, the pains of many thousands of other developers out there). The UAC, in it's currently implementation, is simply brain damaged. It doesn't work, and it's forcing us, developers, to go to unbelievable extends to change software that worked perfectly in previous Windows versions. It's incredible frustrating, specially given th

Reply to Blog: Will Windows Vista attract new skinners? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Wow, this was a trip down the old memory lane, hehe. Anyway, it is a fact that things are VERY different from what they were back in 1998, when WindowBlinds v1.0 was still in beta, NextSTART v1.0 had just been released and Winstep was born. I think that a lot of the fun is gone, simply because back then everything was new and exciting and only

Reply to Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme v6.11 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Thanks Sir Starkers, Jafo, Tim, Brad and everybody else for their thumbs up! Jafo... the check is in the mail. I was typing too fast at the time to check for typos...!

Reply to Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme v6.11 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Mr.Brute, without any further information (like your name or email address, for instance) it is hard to tell what actually happened, but: 1) There is no email at [email protected] from anybody complaining that they purchased Winstep Full Pak and received nothing for it. I also find it rather odd that anyone is lucid enough to post on a public forum and falsely accuse Winstep of defrauding them but not lucid enough to contact either BMT Micro, our on

Reply to Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme v6.11 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

And that's not even close to a complete feature list!

Reply to Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme v6.11 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This is an extensive, but by all means not complete, feature list: NextSTART Menus: Menu Positioning: Menus can be rotated (i.e. turned into horizontal menus) and even rolled up to take up as little screen space when not in use. Large Menus: Menus too large to fit on the screen can be made to scroll using scroll arrows at the bottom or display each 'page' of information in an individual menu. File System Menus: File system menus are menus that displ

Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme v6.11 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Winstep is proud to announce the final release of Winstep Xtreme. <p class="MsoNormal" alig

Reply to The EU vs. Microsoft vs. Iran Part 2 in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

aufisch: Now, in light of this, I fully understand your need to post anti-EU threads. Ahahah! You might be completely wrong (or not), but I loved the reasoning.

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

Oh boy, here we go. they are so myopic that they think anyone who doesn't think the way they do is just misinformed or brain washed. And the same could be said about those who believe anyone who doesn't think like them, or agrees with US foreign policy,

Reply to New Forums on WinCustomize.com! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

One issue, Zoomba: links in posts (which previously showed up as Link) now appear in plain text and are no longer clickable.

Reply to New Forums on WinCustomize.com! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I thought I broke somethin..... Ahaha. I thought the same. I wonder if this has solved that %#"%% annoying IE freeze every time a forum page refrehed - so far, it apparently has.

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

Look, I can't add much more to what I've already said here, we would just be going over and over the same things all day, simply concentrating on different details while completely ignoring others - the never ending discussion I mentioned before. Besides, whatever is causing IE to freeze for a few seconds whenever the forum page refreshes is really getting on my nerves (something already mentioned b

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

So let me get this straight. The dixie chicks have the right to speak their mind about Bush, but Americans don't have the right to respond to their criticism? Errr, of course they do. They can *say* they don't agree with them and why. But threatening their livelihood and calling them 'traitors' just because they voiced their opinion? Isn't tha

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

you do realize that your argument basically rests on the "If you don't agree with me it's just because you're not well informed." Actually what I said is for each individual to take the time to research the subject by themselves and then make up their own minds. I've reached my own conclusion, and you've reached yours - they just happen

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

But Ashcroft's statements, although not directed at anyone in particular, are pretty well documented: http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/12/06/inv.ashcroft.hearing/ All government officials have to do is to convince *some* people that questioning the Bush administration is equivalent to helping terrorists and the whole thing becomes a rolling snowball of the type 'if you're not with us, you are against us'. Even those who privately think otherwise will then become too afraid to

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

I'd also like you to cite when the government has labeled someone "un-patriotic". Oh, just did a quick search on the net, and the first link that came up stated: " Republicans Attack Those Who Dare Question the Bush Administration March 8, 2002 Last week, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (duly elected from th

Reply to EU - tough on software companies, weak on terrorist states.. in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

Regarding the EU vs. MS business, I think the EU is using Media Player as an excuse to 'punish' Microsoft. If it wouldn't be Media Player, it would be something else - all pretty stupid. I just don't understand, Brad, how you could compare this to the 'war on terror' the US is currently engaged in - that was very troll-like, since it is always a hornets nest as you know very well. So I can only come to the conclusion that stirring a hornets nest is what you wanted. When 9/1

Reply to Please ...a guide for sysmetrix in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

Sysmetrix documentation confusing?! Wow. I think it's one of the best examples of good documentation I've seen in a long time. Nick goes out of his way explaining what the different types of bitmaps are, and he even gives plenty of examples on how to make it all work.

Reply to Microsoft about to start paying $2.5 Million PER DAY fine in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

MS should tell the EU to shove their fines and just stop shipping Windows products to Europe for a while Now THAT is something I would like to see. The public uproar would be so great that the EU comission would soon be running back to Brussels with their tails between their legs, hehe. <img src="http

Reply to Microsoft about to start paying $2.5 Million PER DAY fine in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm European (Portugal), but I think the European Commission has just plain lost its marbles in this case. They are obviously being lobbyed by the guys behind the other media players, and they're making a fool of themselves for the whole world to see. Microsoft can not comply because that would open the doors to even more madness! What next? Litestep and Aston lobbying the EU for Windows to ship without Explorer? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc

Reply to Winstep releases Xtreme Public Beta 3 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Hehe, have fun! You will get a 'belly full' of things to tweak with Winstep Xtreme - basically everything is customizable.

Reply to Winstep releases Xtreme Public Beta 3 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

1.If I install and run WinStep do its elements get skinned with that WBTheme if I don't load a NextStart Theme? No, but since most Winstep skinners are also WB users, more often than not they also made a matching WB theme. And in the rare cases they didn't, it's usually quite easy to find some other W

Reply to Winstep releases Xtreme Public Beta 3 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It does seem a bit slow to react though sometimes - whereas objectdesktop is ultra-fast That's because WorkShelf is able to show the contents of physical and virtual folders (My Computer, Control Panel, Desktop, etc....). As I'm sure you've noticed when you open a folder in Explorer and see it slowly gettin

Reply to Winstep releases Xtreme Public Beta 3 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Mr.Kin, Winstep Xtreme is fully compatible with ALL Stardock applications.

Reply to Winstep releases Xtreme Public Beta 3 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Gregory, your check is in the mail. Jafo: "you get a 'permissions' error if you try to run one" Weird. Are you running as Admin? Also, NextSTART Quick Launch items are actually hotspot buttons - try right clicking on one of the problematic items and selecting Properties. Do you see anything 'funny' in the Filename path or the other settings? Can