Skarny

Skarny

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From my script library - though it's a general script. Worked in Windows 7 for me just now to close explorer.exe so if you send this function the process name it should close it. Function procKillProcess(strProcess) strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") &nb

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It does make sense. Funny, because I've just been thinking about going through the archives of Wincustomize and putting all the still relevant information about skinning on the Wincustomize Wiki. Maybe you could put the information you want to keep on there too? http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/Main_Page But otherwise, being able to 'favourite' posts or tag them or something into a seperate group could be u

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I'm finding 3.96 to be quite palatable. Nothing really new from what I can see, but it seems pretty stable. The only crash I get is when an object has an invisible last character as it's text, the navigator windows kills DesktopX.

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What happens if you install the 3.96, and then install the 3.5 to another folder, the run the 3.5 executables. But...I've just noticed something. I have a fresh install of Windows 7, a fresh install of 3.96 from the shop...AND..it lets me export to gadget!

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RomanDA :-) Thank you for offering to help - I don't mind waiting - but I'll also keep working on my dxTreeView in case we don't get anywhere. sViz - registering an ActiveX in Windows 7 is not as easy as in XP due to the tighter administrator controls. You need to start cmd.exe in Administrator mode (I go to start menu, type cmd.exe in the search box, right click the result and select 'run as administrator' Then you run regsvr32.exe <path to dll

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Asking for help again :-) I'm not a proper programmer and I can't seem to get this free activeX control to work in DesktopX. http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/TreeView/Multi-Column_TreeView_Control/article.asp I've downloaded other trial version activeX controls and they install/register and I can select them via the DesktopX script w

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Or something similar? Also, anything new happening out there in DesktopX developer land? New ideas or projects? I'm revisiting my 'dxHacker' program which I'll just call 'dxEdit' now and I'm trying to make a different environment to make desktopX objects in. I'm going to use XML as the object/theme definition file for all my own interfacing and then at the end spit out the dodgy ini file type thing that DesktopX actually expects. I&

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