mickeko

mickeko

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

Norton Internet Security 2009 is a slick lean antimalware machine. The 2008 version worked really well too. It would be a great world if people stuck to RECENT facts when trying to help out, rather than express their opinion on the several years old version of some software they used and hated. Read some reviews on the latest norton suite, and you'll quickly see a trend of really impressed people. As for ESET, I think it's a mature and good suite. But it's lagging behind

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LogonStudio Vista fails to apply image. in LogonStudio Stardock Forums

I tried to change my login image to something wintery, and ran into a weird errormessage when applying. So I reinstalled logonstudio and I could switch the image just fine. What's really odd is that the next time I start logonstudio, it brings up the errormessage again, and I need to reinstall to make it work. It always works fine the first time I run it, and then fails to apply the next time. The Errormessage (in swedish I'm afraid since I use a swedish OS): ************** Un

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Reply to XPeriment; Free software only low maintenance installation in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="mafutnyoas" reply="12" id="1979913"] I understand your reasoning here, but in all honesty a lot of these companies realize they make more money off business licenses and not home user licenses. [/quote] Hardly... They might make *most* money off business licenses, but I really doubt home user sales are negligible. If they really had realized it, they'd offer the FULL versions of their products free for home use. The whole point with the free versions is to

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Reply to are WB skinners allowed to take requests? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Anyone can be a skinner. All it takes is making a skin, it doesn't even have to look nice. :) You could talk to the stardock design crew, they make custom skins. Requests are rarely done for free though, because it takes a huge lot of work to make a skin. And my own experience with cutstomizing peoples computers is that anyone doing a free request expect just as much perfection as those who pay good money for it... From an artistic point of view it's way better for a s

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Reply to PC Game Piracy Examined in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Where's the evidence that a game without DRM get pirated more than one with? The one and *only* thing DRM has ever done is delay the piracy for a few days and cause problems on some computers.

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Reply to 'Find the Stardog' Hunt Begins! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

To have a shot on being first you need a reliable internet connection with low ping against all the included stardock sites. It also needs to be blazing fast... On the off chance that you actually have all those things, you also need to be well versed in stardock products and somewhat smart about interpreting the clues... If you finished the clues later than 5 minutes past noon, you were not the first correct answer. And it IS more fair, regardless of you being greedy or not.

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Reply to XPeriment; Free software only low maintenance installation in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

This experiment got terminated early because the harddrive failed (physically). It worked pretty well up until I got the dreaded "harddrive clicketyclickclockblonk"-noise. ... ... Just a silent moment in the memory of the old harddrive that was in it... If anyone would happen to be curious, it's a Western Digital WD1200BB... Dated 18 Aug 2002... I think these had a rep of being a bit unreliable? Can't really fault this particular drive though, it has

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Reply to Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme 8.11 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

WebGiz, Try [link="http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.1207-toycon-lefreut-launchers.htm"]ToYcon[/link]. Allows easy conversion of images. :) I encountered a bit of instability running winstep, haven't really dug into the source of the problems yet... But it's quite an impressive suite. :)

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Reply to Icon ordering--:Feature neaded in Fences Beta WinCustomize Forums

I totally agree with your KISS attitude, it's definitely the way to go. Fences is totally useful exactly as it is. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that I really feel is lacking is localization (As the context menu gets cluttered). Any other added features are just icing on the cake. :)

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Reply to Icon ordering--:Feature neaded in Fences Beta WinCustomize Forums

Installed Fences B2 today, and I can't do anything else than love it... It's a definite choice for my top 5 most used desktop utilities list (hmm, I should make one of those lists, just for kicks...)! :p I agree with the previous requests, it would be nice. I also have an addition. It would be sweet to be able to disable the icon labels within a single fence. And finally a question; Since this integrates with the contextmenus, will we get localization support?

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Reply to User Karma in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="unkn0wnx" reply="14" id="1970956"]So how do you gain ranks? [/quote] Behave, assist, contribute, be noticed and seen in a positive light... Is the Karma stardock wide (spanned over all the linked sites that is..)?

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Reply to I wasn't expecting THAT! in Community Stardock Forums

People use stardock software? I had no idea!!! ;p My computer is the envy of all my friends... They're too cheap to buy something that is "visual only" (that's their interpretation, not mine). Some have asked me to install (with MY serial... How dare they...) on their system... I'd be happy to do it, but when I say I'll have to keep their computer (because I can only install on my own computers :p ) everyone has changed their mind this far... :) &nbsp

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