Griffinme

Griffinme

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Reply to video driver problems when usins FX, WBlinds & Object Bar on 98se with 96MB ram,celeron 400 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have a similar system. Is your video part of the motherboard? If so I have discovered that the motherboard manufacturers tend to mess with the video card just enough that newer drivers can cause problems. Even newer drivers from the computer maker can cause problems (I hate you, IBM). Running XP here. For some reason the drivers that came with XP work ok for games but not for FX. Newer drivers work ok with FX but not games. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/mad.gif" b

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Reply to OK! you can ignore me! :( in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Question?!?! What question? I don't see no stinking question. I don't see any threads started by you and I don't plan to sit here and waste my time going through each thread trying to find a question posted by you. Since you requested it. /me sets ignore on.

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Reply to Help making icons for DesktopX!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

One way is to shell out $$$ and get a program that will convert .ico's to .bmp's. The second way is to take a screenshot of the desktop. Crop it till the icon is about the only thing there. Then use that as a guide for making your own that fits in with the rest of your theme. This can take up gobs of time at first, but it gets easier with some practice. If you are going to make a zoomer I would suggest that you start with the largest version first. Small .bmp's and .png's shr

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Reply to Should Windows 98/ME be supported? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I used to run WB on my NT4 machine at work about a year ago. It worked but would cause problems. It was a cold and lonely day when I finally gave up on it. Oddly DX still ran well. I would suggest going to two versions. One that works OK on 98 and one that works with 2K/XP. You will still get lots of complaints from users that don't bother to read that, "This is for Win2000/XP. For the Win98/ME version please go here." It should help though. Would there be problems with skins

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Reply to I NEED HELP BADLY!!!!!!!!!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Try this. With WindowBlinds and DesktopX off go to display properties> Desktop> Cusotmize Desktop...> Web. Do you have any web enabled stuff? Some folders are not normal and I was thinking that somehow it might be viewed as your desktop. Do you have "lock desktop items" checked? What happens if you change the desktop background?

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Reply to Could Hollywood Hack your PC? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

That this kind of twisted thinking even sees the light of day, let alone is put up as a bill to be voted on, distresses me. Company A attacks and shreds Company B's computers and network. "We thought they were using an illegal copy of X." What evidence do you have? "It was on those computers we destroyed." How convienant. And before you think this is just smoke look who is backing this bastard. "Reps. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the full Judiciary committ

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Reply to What do you think? Can Linux make it as a desktop OS? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think it would take a some major blunder by M$ combined with some important advances in Linux. Tighter and tighter liscensing restrictions by M$ and it becoming more and more expensive to use could do it. One major problem for Linux is lack of a gaming API. One of M$ best moves was the creation of DirectX. The gaming developers have said they will continue to not port games to it until it has a similar API. Some people might scoff at the idea that games are holding Linux back, but ho

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Reply to What makes a website slow? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I have recently been getting messages like this: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Your transaction (process ID #27) was deadlocked with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun your transaction. /msgboard.asp, line 491

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Reply to I just can't be bothered in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

While I also don't care for the rating system. I have to agree with Grayhaze. I think it stems from swallowing your frustrations and saying to yourself, "It will get better." Eventually this builds up and explodes. While it is not healthy, it happens.

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Reply to Apple starts looking at X86... in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Why does anything that has the Apple logo have to be twice as expensive as it should be? DEC and IBM lived for years on the idea that if it had their names on it had to cost 2-30 times as much as it should have. Sure they made huge profits when they sold a system. They just didn't sell very many of them. Eventually this caught up with them and now they one is close to bankruptcy and the other has had their engineers drift away after they were sold. Dell and Gateway got where they are by selling

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Reply to Slowing PC Preformance in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Use a UIS1 skin. You will know it is if it has 3 windows instead of 2 in the preview window. Skins that are UIS1 must meet certain size paramaters that make them faster. Many skins have a UIS1 version. UIS1 skins can be faster then regular windows. This doesn't seem right till you think of default video card drivers that came with the OS versus updated ones from the manufacturer. UIS1 skins also tend to cause fewer problems with finicky programs, like Photoshop.

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Reply to STARDOCK 'wish' list?? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

At one time there was talk of a new OD Component Manager. One that would download only the files needed in an update instead of the entire program. That would be nice. Some of us are still 56k handicapped.

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Reply to RANT: Spam is out of control in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

In Outlook you open the message. Go to View, then Options, there should be a box that has the headers in it. With Outlook Ex right click on the message. Selecting properties will show the headers with the option of seeing the message in the raw. Yahoo Web mail has an option to show all headers in every message. This should give you an idea where to find them in other enviromen

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