Wizard1956

Wizard1956

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Reply to . in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote]in on a scam to hike subscription fees by telling the masses it would be good for them when you were really buying Porches[/quote] I heard it was a legitimate business deduction. Employee incentives or something like that. ;) I don't even [U]get[/U] junk e-mail (:( but thanks for the heads -up.

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Reply to Please for ther love of GOD help me get my icons back... in Icons WinCustomize Forums

"system restore is off." And your thinking there was....? Not a good idea,imho. I simply don't understand why anyone would want it "off" Why bother making back-ups either? [quote "over a month" & "has been dragging on for months now"unquote] Seems to have screwed up your clock and calendar too. ;)

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Reply to Quick Gallery in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

[quote]That's pretty cool. Would I be a copy cat if I did mine?[/quote] As a mere end-user, I'd love to see a whole gallery of dreams like this. I was wondering what the hell I installed Silverlight for.(1st time I've used it in 3 months)What a great showcase. MasterBaron,you have a most incredible portfolio of dreams. Jaw dropping stuff! CarGuy1,I like your natural look. I just got Deskscapes, but I can see my library will be filled with a lot of both your

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Reply to Some thoughts on Hyperdesk in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I rarely use WMP and have never once used a Yahoo widget.[/quote] I used to use WMP all the time, then winamp,now I use a DX player. I found out the hard way that WMP11 is "glued" into the OS. That is,it can't be un-installed and re-installed to repair it.(This directly from MS)If you screw it up,and I did,you better know how to fix it yourself. A bad skin will cause it to stop responding,close itself and you know the rest. Guess where I got the skin? TSF I still have Jeff's add

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Reply to May 5th Skin Thoughts and Reviews in Community WinCustomize Forums

Thank you,I think my mom will like it too. The logoff button turns to normal on mouse-over.I have a few blinds that I like but not the color so I'll have a go at 'em, give them a new wall and upload the results to http://profile.imageshack.us/user/wizard1956/ Please feel free to use any of them in your reveiws or leave a comment/suggestion. I'll try to denote recolored versions.Just read the taskbar. xxxx R1 :D

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Reply to The insecure CEO in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

I don't think you came across as petty at all. You have every right to be proud of what you've built here.I also think his attitude of blowing off us Vista users will bite him in the ass. Our numbers are growing daily. We wanted new technology, or got it with our new PC's.It's slowly gaining ground now,yet he casually dismisses us as insignificant. Nothing personal against all you XP users but Hyperdesk should have embraced the newest OS first, then be made back-ward compatable, imoh. XP will be

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Reply to AVG Free 7.5 is no more..... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]i have been using AVG 8 free for a while now and have not come across this no email scanning after 30 days thing. Maybe you downloaded a trial version of the paid program?.[/quote] This is from the c|net site:"Some features, such as e-mail scanning, will work during your first 30 days using AVG Free but get disabled unless you upgrade".1,143,390 people can't be wrong,think I'll stick with AVG awhile longer.

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Reply to May 5th Skin Thoughts and Reviews in Community WinCustomize Forums

Well I'll be... it worked lol Just that little thing with the log off button but the colors work.Has a cool green glow to the frames too. seems to have chopped my text though so I'll repeat the credits: AlphaOmega WB (Recolored) by vStyler Alpha3 ligh IP by mrSkope Player widget by adni18 Glass Bent OD Provided w/OD

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Reply to May 5th Skin Thoughts and Reviews in Community WinCustomize Forums

Here's an example of what a recolor can get you (Wizard crosses fingers) AlphaOmega WB (Recolored) by vStyler Alpha3 light IP by mrSkope Player widget by adni18 Glass Bent OD Provided w/OD Non Metal Meters by Bilbo Cursor Krystal Provided by CFX WP Blue

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Reply to DeskScapes 2.0 Launch Support Thread in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I installed 2.00.055 late last night on my Compaq PC w/Vista Home Basic-HP-DVD-nVidia 6150SE. First,is there no end to the things that Stardock can do? Amazing stuff! It installed and ran great with whatever codec it's using.I downloaded several dreams and all worked fine. I just tried them again and now two of the dreams(Aurora[1] and Electric Vista[1]) don't fill all of my 17" monitor.It's solid black around the edges,(approx. 2") with the dream centered on screen,but they do run.I'm real sure

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Reply to AVG Free 7.5 is no more..... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]About the 3mail scanning. Depending how you have your email set up your ISP may be doing that scanning all ready[/quote] After checking into that( I do my homework) both my mailboxes do have AV scanning as a standard feature, so AVG's is redundant. So now, really it boils done to switching to another company for better performance,if any, or staying with AVG who I know and trust, at least til I check out v8.0 for myself.The only thing I never liked about it was long scan times,up

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Reply to Adding AutoHide Button to RocketDock in Docks WinCustomize Forums

This being the kind of community is, some one will help you with your video card issue and all you'll have to do is ask. Being polite never hurts anything either. I only wish I had a card that good, (mine's a 6150SE) so I'm no help. Good Luck and enjoy your new docks.

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Reply to Impulse-looking skin for WB? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Have you looked at Ares by Mike Bryant? Very close in color and gloss, button glow too.One of my favorite skinners, he does great work.[link="https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=5939&libid=1"]WWW Link[/link]

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Reply to AVG Free 7.5 is no more..... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]So, bottom line, you can still have a free version[/quote] Yes ,but no mail scanning after 30 days.I get 2-5 e-mails a [U]week[/U] so maybe it's not even that big of a deal. :p I suspect that as development costs rise,this less free, more limits trend will continue. I'm ok with that, but I will use this opportunity to try out something new. I have heard good and bad about just about all (well, no good about Norton,lol,which came pre-installed on my HP) Nod32 is very highly regar

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Reply to AVG Free 7.5 is no more..... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Well, you really can't complain if it's FREE. I've used it for quite some time, then decided to upgrade to the 8.0 Free version. I didn't like the new version. It consumed to much resources. I now use Avast Home Free version. I think it works just as good as AVG Free version. Check it out.[/quote] Thanks for the heads up on v8.0 I had enough trouble with Norton sucking up resources. I dl'd Avast this morning but was going to give AVG 8.0 a fair try for 30 days before I installed

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