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Reply to Any idea when ObjectDock will fully support 64bit? in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Childerik" reply="10" id="2231188"] Finally, Stardock business looks like a joke [/quote] If being human can be considered a joke, you're absolutely right. They're not trying to explain every tiny little thing that goes wrong like most other companies. They tend to not say anything at all though, which is kind of bad, but I don't hold that against them because I do that too sometimes. Which in a way proves my point... I LOVE stardock, they do

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Reply to Some More Tips To Speed Up Vista in TweakVista & 7 WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="LightStar" reply="13" id="2226867"]There is an easier way to tweak Windows Vista.... go back to Windows XP or install Windows 7. [/quote] Useless comment. Too old to be remotely funny. I'll just bin it with all other stupid remarks. Don't be too bummed about it, it's in good company there, lots of other comments to keep it company. A fair amount of my own comments (like this one) is there too. :D

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Reply to Some More Tips To Speed Up Vista in TweakVista & 7 WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="amitsaran" reply="10" id="2226576"] don't disable the print spooler service, it'll cause a crash when you try to save your work. Any special reason for the crash? I can 100% assure that disabling print spooler will not cause a crash if no printer is present.[/quote] I guess your 100% differs from mine. Run THIS google search and you'll see it's not an uncommon problem wit

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Reply to Pressurized WIP in Sneak Previews WinCustomize Forums

Wow! That's nutty! (In a good way) Dare I suggest that you make a dirty copper/brass/leather steampunk edition? Here's an inspirational image:

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Reply to Some More Tips To Speed Up Vista in TweakVista & 7 WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="voidcore" reply="7" id="2152611"]well, if you are a novice dont mess with services, else printer service can be disabled if no printer is present, lot of network stuff can be disabled. [/quote] Regardless of having a printer installed or not: If you run Adobe Illustrator CS3 (it may apply to other versions too, I don't know), don't disable the print spooler service, it'll cause a crash when you try to save your work.

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Reply to New WC Poll: Are You Going to Skin Windows 7? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]so that others do not also take your flawed advice:[/quote] Here's a snippet from the terms of use on the download site for the windows 7 RC: [quote]... COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO ANY OTHER SERVER OR LOCATION FOR FURTHER REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED, UNLESS SUCH REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT ACCOMPANYING SUCH SOFTWARE.[/quote] Here's a <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?

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Reply to Gloss Burgundy availability in MyColors WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="KarmaGirl" reply="4" id="2226015"]Gloss Burgundy was released as an Object Desktop premium last year. It will be released shortly along with a whole slew of other color variations. They will be sold in packs of three for $19.95 per pack. Any MyColors theme that you buy will work with MyColors, even if purchased through Impulse. Impulse is just an easy way to buy, download and update programs and content.[/quote] Does that mean OD subscribers ge

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Reply to New WC Poll: Are You Going to Skin Windows 7? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="OpusCroakus" reply="25" id="2224161"] And this image is ALSO completely legal - or else Microsoft themselves would have requested the hosting company to pull it down![/quote] Sorry, but that's a hugely flawed argument. You could as well state that rape is legal as long as noone threaten with a law suite.

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Reply to What Anti-Virus or Security Suite are you using with Windows 7 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Hawkeye666" reply="14" id="2222624"]I'm still using AVG free for my Win7 machines. Has anyone tried the Norton/Symantec gamer's A/V product? Does it really have a smaller footprint and still work?[/quote] I use NIS 2009 (not the gamer version). It has a negligible effect on gaming. With the exception of barely noticable (we're talking about fractions of a second here, rather than actually count several seconds like other suites) longer loading

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Reply to What Anti-Virus or Security Suite are you using with Windows 7 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="IAmPas" reply="9" id="2219585"]VIPRE. i used to be a devoted nod32 user until i tested VIPRE. it's inexpensive, too![/quote] I've read comments on Vipre that claims it removed explorer.exe making their system unbootable, so I wouldn't recommend it to the less tech savvy. And in lack of professional testing of its efficiency, I don't trust it enough to consider using it myself. Just because you or your security suite didn't detect a problem, it doesn't necessarily h

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Reply to New WC Poll: Are You Going to Skin Windows 7? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Phoon" reply="22" id="2217955"]Well, with the exception of being illegal, I'm quite sure it can be done that way... i highly doubt that. I haven't seen the link but if VMWare put out the image you could rest assured that it is legit to do so.[/quote] Vmware did NOT put it out. It's a hack using the freely available vmware runtime components.

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Reply to New WC Poll: Are You Going to Skin Windows 7? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="OpusCroakus" reply="20" id="2217350"]I want to DL it, but I don't have the extra PC to put it on. I really don't wanna put it on this one. Po - refer to my reply in the post from the last poll. You don't have to download the Win7 RC from Microsoft... you can download a pre-built VMware virtual machine with Win7 RC already installed in it. You can download the free VMware Player software for your Vista PC to run the free VM on it. No changes to your existing OS or ha

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Reply to New WC Poll: Are You Going to Skin Windows 7? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="MeSleeper" reply="9" id="2214755"]I voted no. Stardock and I are now in divorce court. We're arguing over Impulse, they insist, I refuse, no reconciliation is forthcoming. When I switch to Win 7, it will include a fresh install and a final decree on our divorce. I'll leave the marriage with no hard feelings. I wish SD continued success. [/quote] There's more than one way to skin an OS. So saying no just because you (at least for the time being) won't use stardock pro

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Reply to What is the best anti-virus software? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Brazilian_Joe" reply="20" id="2207007"](Norton is a resource hog though).[/quote] Ok, let me see here.... ccSvcHost is the resident symantec software. CPU usage: 0-2%, it peaks at 4% on rare occasions. Memory use: ~1200kB-~3500kB - On rare occasions it goes up to ~5000kB. That's resource use for both firewalling and malware protection on demand. I don't see how you define a resource hog, but I'm quite certain you can't mean this...

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Reply to Windowblinds for Windows 7 beta – When, please? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="bkmitch" reply="10" id="2205332"]Don't know if this thread is still being watched, but it is 2 months later and Windows 7 is now a release candidate. Any news of Windowblinds 7 coming out anytime soon?[/quote] This is just a guess on my part, but we'll likely see Windowblinds 7 betas AFTER Windows 7 goes gold. It's not uncommon for software to lag behind new OS releases, specially apps that run on a lower level than a regular calculator app (or any other random thing

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Reply to What is the best anti-virus software? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Nimbin" reply="18" id="2206957"]I use AVG professional, Adaware Pro, Spybot search & destroy, Malwarebytes antimalware and Zonealarm Pro. [/quote] Just for fun, I downloaded Adaware, spybot and malwarebytes antimalware. Currently my computer is protected by Norton IS 2009 and maintained by Advanced System Care pro (mentioned only because it has some malwareprotection integrated too). Nothing bad was found on my computer. I take that as a indi

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Reply to What is the best anti-virus software? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="lXI" reply="12" id="2203893"]Woudn't bother with half of the stuff listed here, most AV has it's own AV database and all differ. None is 100% effective, would never ever pay for AV complete waste of money but I recomend free.[/quote] With a non free AV you wouldn't suffer from a virus that survives a format. And I'm not worrying at all about malware that break my system. I worry about malware that actually work seamlessly with my OS, and free AV doesn't do anywhere near as

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