CarGuy1

CarGuy1

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Reply to Cable modem, rental vs owned in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Now every time the dern thing burns up.. "which they seem to do on a steady basis"[/quote] Sounds like you may have a power spike or "dirty" power issue. Do you have it on a UPS? It is dependant upon who your cable supplier is will make a difference whether or not you should buy your own. If it is Time Warner/Road Runner, the bill will be the same either way. The cable modem is part of the service and they will not give you a discount if you supply your own. One thing to

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Reply to Skinning as a proffesion in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Don't take this the wrong way but Jafo is going to love this thread. You misspelled profession 3 times. ;) I wish you luck on the skinning and you may want to ask Vstyler, I believe he does it professionally.

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Reply to Poll Results: DeskScapes 2.0 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I keep seeing this "internal player" mentioned,I have Vista Home Premium with DeskScapes installed,can I choose between internal and external players and if so,how?[/quote] I believe this is an Vista Ultimate only item. On my Ultimate system with Dreamscenes and the Deskscapes beta installed, I have a check box above the sizing boxes on the bottom right of the Desktop wallpaper window where you choose the dream you want to run. On my Premium system with deskscapes installed, I do

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Reply to Stardock's insane 2008 schedule in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I ought to point out that schedules do change, so while something is on the list above with a scheduled date, please remember that dates can and do change sometimes. [/quote] I wonder if this is Neil's way of saying that this is Brad's schedule and please don't take it out on him if a date slips.

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Reply to VISTA 3 Month Ownership Review in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

[quote]At this point I would have preferred to get OEM XP and a cheap or bootleg copy of Office, just for the fact that I have spell check and compatibility with work computers, Excel files.[/quote] So, Am I to assume this means your OK with software piracy? :NOTSURE: [quote]There is nothing that truly bothers me about Vista Ultimate, if you forget about, No MS WORD, No OS integrated Microsoft Virus Protection,[/quote] And you think these come with XP?

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Reply to Weekly Poll: DeskScapes 2.0 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

DadBart Basicly, there are 2 types of Dreams, dynamic and looped video. Dynamic uses less CPU power because the dream is rendered by the video card not the CPU. Currently the only dynamic dreams are being relesed by Stardock as the software development kit to create them has not been released to the public. I believe all the dynamic dreams in the dream gallery are marked as such. The other is looped video. The amount of CPU power that a Dream needs is dependant upon what t

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Reply to Master Dream Round-Up in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]If I was aware of the small size of these [/quote] At the bottom of your desktop window where you choose the dream you want to run, there should be a choice to stretch the desktop to fit, mine is the box to the left.

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Reply to cursorfx beta3 in CursorFX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I run Windows Defender[/quote] Philly0381, has defender ever hit on anything for you? I've been running it since the first beta and I have never had it hit on a thing. :NOTSURE:

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Reply to What MPEG Compressor in DreamScenes WinCustomize Forums

Does anyone know how to encode a video in reverse with TMPGEnc xPress. I would like to make a mpg out of a short clip by running it forward first then reversing the clip to see if it would loop better.

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Reply to DeskScapes 2.0 beta arrives! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Liquid Dream has a lot more options.[/quote] In my opinion, there's not enough to justify the price...you should drop it to $4.95 if the final version is the same as this Water Dream. When I heard there was going to be enhancements I was hoping to see the ability to change the video speed or choose the playing point of the video for large ones like movies but those options are yet to be seen. Do you think these might make it into a future version?

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Reply to DeskScapes 2.0 delivers animated wallpaper in CES 2008 WinCustomize Forums

I run without UAC...I had no problems seeing it in SDC, installing it and the dreams or running the program. Funny thing, I do not see any differance. I see a couple new dreams and a check box for use internal player but that's about it. Seems like it runs the same for me. What were the improvement in this version over the last? Was this tweaked to run faster and more stable? When I heard there was going to be enhancements I was hoping to see the ability to change the video speed

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Reply to DeskScapes 2.0 beta arrives! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

A few questions... Is this the enhanced version? If so, where's the enhancements. What's the "use internal player" check box for? Lastly, I bought Liquid Dream ...now you are giving it away as "Water Dream". Why would you give away a previously sold Master Dream and make the people who bought it feel ripped off?

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