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Reply to DeskScapes 8.5 is hogging the CPU on Windows 10 as well in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Here are images of the task manager with a dream paused and with it running. Everything else is the same. Sorry about the different sized images. I forgot to hold Alt down when taking the first screenshot. <img src="http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h313/gevansmd/running%20dream_zpsdrjznaj0.png" alt="Runnin

Reply to CISA now law...and more... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="1" id="3609847"] What some people seem to ignore is the abuse of the rights supposedly guaranteed under the constitution, especially freedom of speech. Hate mongers love this and hide behind it. If this smacks too much of politics feel free to delete it. [/quote] "supposedly guaranteed"? The point, is the government has no right deciding what speech is or isn't permissible. Once the government gets involved t

Reply to DeskScapes 8.5 is hogging the CPU on Windows 10 as well in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Still hogging the CPU under W10. Between DS Host Application and the strain it outs on Windows Explorer 50% of my CPU is consumed by a dream. Doesn't matter much which dreams I use. Anyone know a faster decoder pack than KLite codec pack? Maybe that would help.

Reply to Return of the Start Menu issue Windows 10 with Window Blinds running. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I cannot find the program causing problem. I was sure it was Start10 since that's the one I have that modifies the Start menu but disabling it and rebooting doesn't fix. I disabled WB10. Not that one either. Ditto for DeskScapes and WinFX 6. Maybe it's a combination of more than one SD program but I don't have the patienece to try all of them. I guess I'll open a support ticket. I called MS in case they had seen it. She told me t

Reply to Return of the Start Menu issue Windows 10 with Window Blinds running. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

When I build my new PC the main drive will be an SSD. I read up on copying a hard drive to SSD and it doesn't sound pretty so I've held back on the new build partly for that reason.

Reply to Return of the Start Menu issue Windows 10 with Window Blinds running. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

SFC found and repaired some corrupt files but after the reboot the issue persists. I guess I will have to bite the bullet and enable the SD programs one at a time until I find the one that causes the problem. The reboots take sooooooo long! [e digicons]:'([/e]

Return of the Start Menu issue Windows 10 with Window Blinds running. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I have no idea what's causing this. I uninstalled Start10 in case it was the culprit. If I boot with no SD programs running I get a clean start menu. I have not yet tried disabling one at a time and rebooting. Was hoping someone else had seen this and knows which program is causing it and a workaround. As you can see, when I display the default start menu, all applications, there are alphabet letters overlaid over the menu. Turning off all SD programs a

Reply to My results: Windows 10 upgrade/Stardock apps in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="3" id="3609207"] Fences is now working. I uninstalled and reinstalled Fences again, this time as administrator and it seems to be working again. There were no errors or warnings during the first reinstall but decided to try admin rights the next time. [/quote] UPDATE: Fences is now working. I uninstalled and reinstalled Fences again, this time as administrator and it seems to be working again. There were

Reply to My results: Windows 10 upgrade/Stardock apps in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Ok, thanks, I found the Run option and it's active in my SM10 menu. DeskScapes 8.5 has been a CPU hog even on Windows 7. I haven't found a single dream that makes a difference. Someone else has noted the DS unload problem after a monitor comes awake. I can't find that thread to see if a fix was every discovered.

My results: Windows 10 upgrade/Stardock apps in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Overall, the SD programs hog 81% of my CPU. It goes from 99% to 18% after I unload all SD programs. What works: CursorFX works well. WindowBlinds 10 seems to skin everything correctly, including Chrome. Too bad Modern apps can't be skinned. Ugly! Start10 works great but missing the Run... command entry. In combination with OD or ND you cannot pass in the Ctrl key to invoke the standard W10 menu if wanted. Objec

Reply to ObjectDock and Windows 10 in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Works ok but two issues. The major one is it's extremely slkow to respond. The minor one is I can't use Ctrl-click on the Start Menu icon to invoke the default W10 start menu when I want it. I guess OD does not get keypressss passed to the icons.

Fences is dead on W10 (SOLVED) in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Double-clicking on the desktop reveals my Fences but I cannot do anything with them. The icons arew dead, the fences cannot be moved. The fence menu doesn't do anything and couble-clicking to hide the Fences doesn't work. I have them automatically disppear after a few minutes if I have a window open and that does work. I can't find the threads where people were having similar problems. Was there ever a resolution? I'm running W10 64 bit

Reply to WindowBlinds 10 Beta Thread in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

The right-click popup menu on the desktop is unreadable with any blind other than the default W10 theme. A reboot cleared up that problem but now I have a runaway DSHost Application. Shutting it down through task manager has lowered the CPU usage without breaking anything. New update: Killing DSHost has killed the right-=click completely now as well as paused my DeskScapes dream. What is going on???

SOLVED: Windows 10 alert boxes have no buttons at all in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I'll leave this post up in case anyone else makes the same mistake: I forgot to disable WindowBlinds 8. I just upgraded to Windows 10 Pro from Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit. I then tried to Install Start10 and the alert box asking me to confirm the install has no buttons. If I hit it closes the alert. I tried WB 10 and the same thing happened. This is not a Stardock problem, I imagine but does anyone know how I can get the bu

Reply to How to play a folder full of videos in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

Control-click select multiple dreams. That will enable the random background option. However, there only seems to be the option to change dreams every xx minutes rather than after completing the loop. You might suggest the feature you want directly to Stardock.

Reply to I have to reinstall after every restart! in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Sounds like an antivirus program may be doing something to the program file.

Reply to I have to reinstall after every restart! in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

What happens if you run OD after startup and without reinstalling? Does it load then? I think there was a thread here about it not auto starting on Windows 10.

Reply to WindowBlinds 10 Feature Request? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I didn't notice it was your post RD. I thought I was replying to a newer WB user and gave a workaround suggestion.

Reply to WindowBlinds 10 Feature Request? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

You always have the choice to turn off WindowBlinds for a particular application. See if that helps with Skype. Start the WindowBlinds configuration program. Click on the gear wheel and then choose the Per Application tab.

Reply to Checkbox on upper left of icons in Fences WinCustomize Forums

It;s not clear what Stardock software you're using.

Reply to DeskScapes 8.5 is hogging the CPU on Windows 10 as well in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the info. I always download the latest versions of SD software. If I can still find 8.3 I'll downgrade to that version.

Reply to any idea how to hide cd/dvd drive in win10 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I always set my optical drive to drive z:.

DeskScapes 8.5 is hogging the CPU on Windows 10 as well in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

I've noticed lately that if I have DeskScapes running, my PC becomes very slow, and task manager says upwards of 90% of the CPU is in use. As soon as I pause DessScapes, CPU usage drops to 15% or so. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Is this a known problem? Is there a process I can stop that still allows animated wallpaper without killing the CPU?

Reply to DreamMaker not Windows 10 compatible in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

That'w what I thought. You are the Dream Master on this board AzDude! Amazingly beautiful stuff.

DreamMaker not Windows 10 compatible in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

I have yet to make my own dream file but I noticed on the Windows 10 upgrade advisor (part of the Get Windows 10 app) the only software it pointed out as incompatible is DreamMaker. I would not have though DM uses any OS specific calls to create dreams from video files. 1. Is DM compatible? 2. Are there any important programs (not just Stardock programs) that are definitely incompatible? I realize "important" is in the eye of the beholder