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Reply to Windows 8 compatibility mode uses Win 7 titlebar skin in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="3" id="3332416"] Do msstyles/visual styles require a DLL hack on Win8? Just curious. Thx. [/quote] that would be one method. there's an other method also. UxStyle Core runs as a service and patches the files in RAM, so it leaves the original DLLs untouched. http://uxstyle.com/ (this requires the original files, so if you already hacked them, do a system r

Reply to Windows 8 compatibility mode uses Win 7 titlebar skin in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I wonder if this could somehow be used to force all applications to use the old titlebars, without using compatibility mode for all of them.[/quote] maybe, but not the way you have in mind. this is still the default msstyle, just using different resources from the same file. [quote] Also, this suggests that Win 8 has at least some native theming capability.[/quote] yes, it does. still pretty much the same since Windows XP. Windows 8 visual s

Reply to Windows Blinds & Object Desktop et al in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="2" id="3332006"]The ObjectDesktop does specifically mention the required OSes on the System Requirements tab on the purchase page (https://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/purchase.asp)[/quote] that's a pretty poor list though. one could get the impression there are only three Windows 8 (64-bit) ready applications. a table would be less confusing. also Fences/Fences Pro?

Reply to IE 10 Released to General Public Today in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="75" id="3331597"]There's the MS Store like the Apple Store, third party apps go home.[/quote] seriously? Microsoft would love to have more third party apps in their store. actually many small developers sell their apps on the OS X app store exclusively, although they could distribute it on their own as well. [quote who="Uvah" reply="75" id="3331597"]MS wants IE to be 'the' browser. Like Apple does with Safari.</spa

Reply to Download wallpaper daily in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I want to be able to get a random desktop wallpaper daily. [/quote] that's a feature of Windows. http://www.ehow.com/how_6501973_change-desktop-wallpaper-daily.html [quote] I also can't find a way to bulk download wallpapers from WinCustomize. Any advice?[/quote] you could scrape the site with curl http://curl.haxx.se/

Reply to So the computer finally is showing it's age in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="doortech1" reply="640" id="3330420"] free at snap files.[/quote] why do so many people at Wincustomize prefer to get their software from third-party sites? seriously, get the stuff from source, at least you can be be sure the third-party site does not put any extra crap into the installer. http://technet.

Reply to China: The Next Great Economic Disaster in Economics WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="BernieTime" reply="10" id="3327720"] Saw the whole thing on 60 minutes the other night. Wasn't terribly surprised as there's a lot of buzz about Africa being the next great emerging market for business. Which in my mind translates to "A lot of poor people that can be heavily exploited because Chinese workers are starting to demand more than what we want to give them"[/quote] not really. labor costs in Africa are actually higher than

Reply to Something wonderful is about to happen… in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

being able to run Metro apps in a desktop window? no ... that can't be it. nothing "wonderful" about that due to the lack of interesting Metro apps. ;)

Reply to Oddly large PSD file in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

i just tried a photo of the same size with 8 bit per channel color depth (=32bit). 12 fully opaque layers = 155 MB so i still think "real" color depth and transparency are the key. PSD is lossless, but there are some compression algorythms that would make a file smaller if there are areas of the same color.

Reply to Oddly large PSD file in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

without having the file there can be only guessing. probably higher color depth in that image.

Reply to So the computer finally is showing it's age in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="617" id="3326948"]least privilege[/quote] very true. unfortunately every Windows user that is able to change a wallpaper and capable to install tons of snake-oil shareware considers him/herself an expert/power user and would never work with anything less than administrator rights. i guess the most popular Windows "tip and trick" of recent years is how to turn off UAC. ;)

Reply to So the computer finally is showing it's age in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="MadDeez" reply="612" id="3326893"] Quoting kona0197, reply 608And you should know by now, after all these years, about how I feel about paying for software. I don't think anyone should have to pay for a decent anti virus program. so you think all software should be free of charge, huh? people create these apps on their time just to give them away to everyone? that would be a heck of a way to make money these days, wouldn't it? i dou

Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="266" id="3322767"] Quoting Savyg, reply 264 Quoting moshi, reply 262no changes since at least October 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20101030031001/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycle? the only thing that has changed is that consumer versions qualify for extendend support as well. And that happened in 2012. clearly they forgot to update the top of the page I see no point i

Reply to MS finding new ways to make folks hate them: Office 2013 license tied to one computer only. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

such licenses are probably only valid in the U.S. and Australia. Microsoft already said they will not enforce that nonsense in Germany. http://www.pcwelt.de/news/Office_2013_laesst_sich_auf_neuen_PC_uebertragen-Keine_Panik-7471674.html and no, that's not because they like Germans better.

Reply to WINDOWS 8 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="boomstickers" reply="94" id="3319702"] Quoting stephenv, reply 94I'm not sure they can fix it for windows 8. Looks like windows 7 was the last customizable OS. Microsoft has apparently locked them out. I believe Stardock has to rewrite the Windowblinds code to work in a non-Aero environment. Win8 took quite a drastic turn in UI, which means a lot of work to get WindowBlinds8 to be something that customers will be excited and fulfilled in using and staff will be

Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

no changes since at least October 2010 ;) http://web.archive.org/web/20101030031001/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycle? the only thing that has changed is that consumer versions qualify for extendend support as well.

Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

you are very wrong with about that "having to wait" part. people were always and are now changing the look and feel of windows. during Windows 95 i was hacking the Marlett font were all the glyphs were stored for example. changing the visual style in Windows 8 works almost the same way as it does under Windows 7. that is not the point. personally i'd even prefer that flat look over almost any WindowBlinds skin. i call it ugly because on a desktop or laptop you have to work with tw

Reply to Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

it's not Yahoo, there's likely something running on your system that keeps dowloading all that malware.

Reply to Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

you are aware that you should format this computer including the mbr before you ever access the internet again? probably better if you format every computer you own.

Reply to Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="12" id="3318459"] I once used Bing to search for Photoshop tuts. ASC puts a blue checkmark next to safe sites and no checkmark next to others that are questionable. I hovered over one without the checkmark and ASC said don't go there, it can put malware on your system. I didn't go there. I'm usually very careful about where I go which is why I installed HTPPS everywhere. But its clean now and running nicely.[/quote] Bing finds malwar

Reply to Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="6" id="3318410"]I've since installed the htpp to https app on my machine, before all this took place. Could that have anything to do with it?[/quote] if you are talking about HTTPS Everywhere, and you got it from the EFF website: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere then no. if it is "some app", that you got from a download portal, then yes. always get your software

Reply to Me 21 - Bugs...ZERO!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

you should also have a look at your version of Photoshop. in that "CS2" thread you said you would be running the (ancient) version 7. i am not even sure this old version would work under Windows 7, and the icon in your taskbar says Photoshop CS6. hope you got whatever version you are running from a legitimate source. edit: just saw you got the trial version as well. ok, that's not the reason then.

Reply to Dell’s Going Private in Deal with MS and Silver Lake Private Equity in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="8" id="3318185"]Microsoft is trying to use the Apple/linux model, yet the market share of those 2 do not come close to windows. Why copy #2?[/quote] it only seems that way if you live in the past. Microsoft does not. they know very well that smartphones and tablets are computers too. and their market share ain't so great if you count those in. ;) and for the small companies: just look at all those successfull independent deve

Reply to Dell’s Going Private in Deal with MS and Silver Lake Private Equity in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="5" id="3317751"] Quoting Dr Guy, reply 4What is one of the biggest gripes against Windows 8? App store. Then that would be the same for Apple... They're both about the app store.[/quote] and for Linux, all major distributions have their own packet repositories (long before Apple). on all Linux, OS X and Windows you can install software from other sources as well.

Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="140" id="3316805"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 140 You can't organize your Metro apps into folders ala iOS. Why would you want to? I find grouping them on the start screen perfectly acceptable since having them in 'folders' would just necessitate an extra click/tap and we're all about eliminating that. [/quote] one more tap. i think that's better than one or m