Tombala

Tombala

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Reply to April 17 Skins reviews in Community WinCustomize Forums

Another good idea is to actually link to the skins instead of just bolding the name. I know that would be time consuming but that way the readers can click and not have to search for a skin. Thx for the article!

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Reply to Just Bought CursorFX? Get Started With Some Great Themes in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm gonna put a plug in for my aged but kickin' cursor. It was a revolutionary cursor when everyone was still "drawing" cursors. I might have been the first person to use a 3D app to create a cursor. I admit that the animations are not as good as what we're used to seeing today but still worth checking out if you have never seen it before. [link="https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=410&libid=25"]X-Wing[/link] by me. :)

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Reply to Topdownloads.net has YOUR walls in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'll be short and sweet. 1) The site is not linking to the content. Instead, it is simply letting you download from their servers that harvested it from WinCustomize (I know it's WC because I don't upload my stuff anywhere else). So the person downloading has no idea from where the art-work or whatever you want to call it originated. 2) The site is not really giving you credit. Your user name appears but it is not linked to your WC account, so it could be any "yourusernamehere"

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Reply to Bill Gates on Keeping America Competitive in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I find it interesting that people mark MS as "thief". What MS did was to arrange great deals with IBM back in the day to have the rights to MS-DOS. That catapulted them to success. Windows was a much later activity. There was nothing "stolen". If you're going to throw the whole "they stole Windows from Macs" thing, don't bother. Apple "stole" it from Xerox, MS "stole" it from Apple or Xerox. The point is, MS played its cards right and Apple didn't. Now MS is the target of criticisms and

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Reply to Vista Sales Slow? It's Those Darn Pirates! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

What software developing companies like MS don't understand (or, more accurately, choose not to, due to stock holder stupidity) is that people that use pirated software don't simply say "Oh, I guess if I can't get a pirated version of Vista, i'll shell out $300 for a real copy of it". Instead they wait until the OS is pirated -- and Vista will be, too, just like any other protection scheme. So all that a tighter leash on security does is annoy valid users, cause your costs to go up, and overal

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Reply to Touring Windows Vista - Part 4: Tools for the Power User in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

Opinions are just what they are, so here are mine: I have been using Windows since versions I can't remember that ran on MS-DOS 4.0 or something. Anyway, it amazes me how people talk about Windows crashes and reformats. I have had a box alive at home now for over 4 years with no reformats at 4 in the morning or any major problems. That is saying a lot since I like to pile on a lot of crap on my system in terms of applications. Yea, the system is probably slower now than it used to b

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Reply to Apple Settles Patent Dispute with Creative for $100m in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

That's crap... Creative didn't exactly invent anything either. Hierarchical data based menu interfaces have been used in all kinds of places for many years. It's not a novel concept created by Creative by any means. Cramming it into a small screen might be new but it's nothing worth a patent IMO. The people at the patent office need to get a tech training some time soon or this patent crap is going to get out of control. Let me patent double-clic

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Reply to WindowBlinds acquired by Yahoo in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I about s**t my pants when I first started reading this. I was ready to b****slap Brad across the face for surrendering to the large lame corporate internet mongers... By the time I got to the boat, it was all good again... though I wouldn't mind if WB came free... GO YAHOO!!!

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Reply to 100,000+ Viruses in 2004 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Even if you use FireFox, you still have the whole IE framework on your machine and are just as prone to the mentioned worms and trojans and backdoors. Unless, of course, you have a magical way to remove all IE remnants from your Windoze ssystem, which, as far as I know, is close to impossible. If not, then simply highly improbable.

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Work area reduction stuck even when DX is unloaded... in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

On some DX themes I used, I had work area filling the whole screen since I had the taskbar hidden. Now DX is unloaded but my windows still maximize to full screen, covering up the taskbar. Is there a registry setting I can reset to restore the maximize size for windows? How do I have my windows maximize only down to the taskbar height? It makes it quite a pain in the wee since I can't see which windows I have open or which tray icons might be flashing when I have a window maximized. <img src="ht

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Reply to Cursor....author Tombala in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

All done Marbleman. It should be available as soon as it gets approved. > I went with 50% on normal and alternate pointers and 75% on the move pointer. I left the resizers and text &#115election alone because I thought they were already good size. Enjoy... <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/sm

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