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Reply to How can I install DeskScapes without the bloatware? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dewie" reply="20" id="2595299"]My only complaint about Impulse is number of updates that get pushed out to the software itself (esp since I've no idea what they're for). You can right-click on a program entry in Impulse and click "View History" to see the program's changelog. [/quote] Thanks, but wrong updates. I mean updates to Impulse itself , rather than update announcements for applications (I like that part). Often (maybe less so

Reply to DeskScape Massive Crash! in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="pinkall" reply="15" id="2596247"]I have a very similar problem: I had crashes since several weeks at random intervals (10 minutes to a few hours) when using DeskScape . Either the screen freezes or even the monitor signal is lost completely. I have a Dell XPS 420 with Geforce 8800 GTX graphics card. Dell replaced my mainboard, my graphics card and had me reinstall the operating system (I used the opportunity to switch from Vista 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit). No change! What finally

Reply to Just thanks for this working properly in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Well, check that one "I hate Impulse" thread whatever it was called, there's a lot of positive posts in there too. If you ignore the OP's rantings - lol. Actually - it may have been a different forum, but they're out there.

Reply to DeskScape Massive Crash! in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Bah, I can't find Winter Snow anymore for some reason. But... since the creator happens to be posting in this thread anyway perhaps he can shed some light on the issue? I don't have any problems with 3d games either, just with certain DS dreams. Edit - Just realized how old this thread is. Not the most active forum here huh? [e digicons];P[/e]

Reply to What do these apps do? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Actually I already own OD, so I've "bitten the bullet". [e digicons]^_^[/e] Was just wondering what cool stuff I have access to that I don't know about. Thanks Cameochi (and to the others attempting to assist), but I don't think this is "whining" either! A user-created list of descriptions would be nice of course but honestly, I feel this is something Stardock should provide us with. They probably already have the text sitting around somewher

Reply to What do these apps do? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

My God some of you people are hostile. (Can we at least wait until after the thread has come to a conclusion before we make the wrong assumption that a simple "thanks" will not be forthcoming?) How disappointing. I'm sorry but a tutorial listing some of the major apps did not really help. The important question ("Is there some comprehensive list and description of all these things somewhere that I'm missing?") has still not been answered, but I think that IS the answ

Reply to What do these apps do? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

But where did those descriptions come from? There are others I'm wondering about too and I was hoping I wouldn't have to do 10 google easter egg hunts to find them. :( It would be nice if we could just right click on these things, select "info" and have it actually go to correct links for each item (as well as filtering ones we don't need). It seems a simple thing to fix the links or to create html descriptions for these items.

Reply to Issues with Google Chrome in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

What makes you assume that the problem is something that can be fixed in WB, vs something that Chrome is doing which can't be overridden?

What do these apps do? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Maybe this is a stupid question but it's not completely obvious what some of the items listed as 'available software' for Object Desktop actually are and do. The "Info" context option only leads to descriptions for the popular items but never for the weirder ones. Ex. Desktop Gadgets ObjectBar vs ObjectDock Plus vs ObjectDock Plus 2 DesktopX 4 Theme Manager Is there some comprehensive list and description of all these things

Reply to DeskScape Massive Crash! in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I have a problem similar to this (hopefully the same issue). Basically my screen locks up. Sometimes I get a few seconds warning because the UI starts to get EXTREMELY slow, gradually worsening, until everything locks up entirely. When this happens I still see the desktop but NOTHING responds, no ctrl-alt-del, nothing. Other times the screen just suddenly goes black and stays black (I've left it for some time to see if it recovers, never does). I have yet to se

Reply to How can I install DeskScapes without the bloatware? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Impulse: 35 MB Hard Disk Space 2.5 MB RAM if left running in the taskbar (completely optional) No annoying ads in your face all the time (unless you go looking for them specifically on certain tabs) No significant impact to startup time (again, if set to run at startup) Allows you to keep your 'start menu' and/or desktop free of lots of game/utility shortcuts if you use the taskbar icon No bandwidth hijacking or CPU hogging for

Reply to Incompatibilities with Opera 10.50? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

This may not matter, but I have 10.51 right now... hope that doesn't require yet another update to WB! Opera skins do seem different, now some of them are like Chrome with the tabs on the very top. Did you try other Opera skins? I'd be half-willing to bet that the "classic" skin will behave differently (tabs not on the top row). It's definitely worth trying the latest version of Opera - I was starting to switch to Chrome because it was getting slow like Firefox and

Reply to Eating CPU in Windows 7 x64. in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I have Win7 w/Deskscapes (and a very similar PC) and I see similar things but only with certain dreams (usually the more complex ones). I've never installed any codecs myself (who knows if some rogue app did or not, though).

Reply to "Extract here" with 7-zip breaks Fences in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Here's what I mean:

Reply to "Extract here" with 7-zip breaks Fences in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Okay okay, so I was a bit sensationalist there. It's not "broken". [e digicons]O:)[/e] What I mean is, whenever I download a file from my browser or otherwise paste a file onto my desktop, I have Fences set up to automatically move all those new files to a certain "temporary" fence so I always know exactly where to look for newly added files. This works fine normally but in the case with 7-zip "Extract here", it results in this weird bug. To me s

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="njareg" reply="48" id="2568805"] Well guys it's been a slice, I'm going to stop visiting this post as I feel I've said everything that needs to be said. I really think everyone is not getting full service, not just me. You may agree with me or not agree, of course that's your decision. [/quote] We are getting "full service" for what we paid for, your sense of entitlement to certain services is detached from reality. You are getting f

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="njareg" reply="47" id="2568800"] I think stardock is laughing at you and everyone that just buys their cheap excuses. I'm not trying to insult but get you out of the worshipping mode and get you into prudent thinking for yourself tired of getting ripped off customer mode. Come on make these guys step up to the plate and earn their money. [/quote] Actually, I just wanted to see you write out another long and angry flame again, this thread is too entertaining to le

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="njareg" reply="27" id="2562706"] Well heaven forbid us customers should put stardock out, I mean who are we right? we just paid them our money for their software and now we have the nerve to ask for them to work a little harder and package up the data with their patch instead of having it connect over the internet.[/quote] But it's not just a matter of Stardock "working a little harder". More work means employing and paying someone

"Extract here" with 7-zip breaks Fences in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

On Windows 7 when I "Extract here" on a zip file (on Desktop) using the Windows context menu, the folder inside the zip file extracts to the desktop fine, but does not get automagically moved to the "default" fence. Instead it ends up on the desktop itself (actually it partially overlaps with another unrelated fence), and I have to move it to the "default" fence myself. This is with Fences Pro and the free 7-zip utility. Fairly sure this is a Fences bug and not directly re

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="Astarsis" reply="14" id="2560241"] Myself I hate the new DMR/ need to be logged in trend of some company and general invasivness. Best protection from hackers is always to be disconected. (and have a good firewall / antivirus, of course, for when you're connected) [/quote] Well, I think these companies are only doing this "must be connected" nonsense to line their own pockets. Everything else they claim is a benefit is just a red herring m

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Nice, I hadn't thought of that. Why wouldn't you like Impulse anyway? I think it's great. It was hard for me to accept at first because I'm very much a system tray minimalist, but after I accepted Impulse living in my system tray I've found it definitely deserves the privilege. (Besides it beats the crap out of "Steam" which is a pile of rubbish and steamy dog poop.) I definitely did NOT regret this decision when upgrading my PC recently - re-instal

Reply to The United Planets fails again in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

A perfectly corrupt and incompetent organization--just like the UN. [e digicons]:D[/e] Looks like it's working great to me!

Reply to Hey, back off in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The suggestion of "warning" AI (which has been brought up many times before) isn't meant to change the motives of AI (it doesn't change a human's objectives when the AI "warns" them either), but merely to force them to make some stronger efforts to conceal their plans better. That has benefits (force them to keep their distance) and problems (when they do attack it may be a bigger surprise), but I don't think this requires a change in how the AI prioritizes their real objectives - simpl

Reply to Lost CD key for Dread Lords but want to get the two expansion packs in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If they've bundled the expansions into a single-install cd like I think they have with the new 'version', yes it's worth it just to drop the dependency on having to install three separate things...