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Reply to What Computers & The Internet Have Done To My Brain in Living in Cyberspace WinCustomize Forums

Yes, that is excatly how I have it as well. I get well too easily distracted by something new. At times I've been concidering disablig the internet while I work, but it would be any use because I'd only too easily get it back online again. For instance, this easter I was suppose to finish of my current project. Nothing that should have taken much time, but I think I've only sat down for about one-two hours each time I went to do some work. In my de

Reply to HELP! SCROLLBAR GLITCH in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Did it happend with the last WB version?

Reply to Folder Shortcuts in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Open in Explorer? Dim WshShell Set WshShell = CreateObject ( "WScript.Shell" ) WshShell.Run "d:\" Set WshShell = nothing

Reply to idea for an artist in Internet WinCustomize Forums

animated would be nice hmm... Now would be nice if DesktopX had DirectX support.

Reply to Oh dear, it's happened again... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

To me it only happend sometimes when I apply a new theme and I have Firefox running at the same time. But it went away after I restarted Firefox. Seem that you have a perticular hyperactive version of Firefox. Could it be a Firefox theme or extension that could cause this conflict?

Reply to New Display Technology in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I suppose it's just one of them thoughts that, when they hit you, you think "That'd be funny. But I won't do it. It's quite silly really. ... Right,... where did I put my camera?"

Reply to Who Thinks... in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Well, you could change the Marlett font to tweak some of the default appearnace in Windows. But there's a limit to what you can do, and with most people using WB or VS you won't notice much of it anyways. And since it's a systemfont it's not strait forward to replace. I learned the hard way. I wanted anti-aliased Tahoma text below 12pt on my Win2000 system so I opened it up in a font editor and tweaked the antialiasing setting. That was easy, making th

Reply to Who can I talk to about Right Click? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The official way to get support from Stardock is [email protected]

Reply to Name Statistics in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Thomas is the #10 most common male name. 1.38% of men in the US are named Thomas. Around 1690500 US men are named Thomas! Thomas is the #1796 most common female name. 0.003% of females in the US are named Thomas. Around 3825 US females are named Thomas! You call your females Thomas?! ... why? Thomas is the #12 most common last name. 0.311% of last names in the US are Thomas.

Reply to What is the difference between WB and Visual Style? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

With VS you can only get VS skins. (msstyles) With WB you get VS skins (msstyles) and WB skins (wba). That alone is a good argument even if you aren't worried about hacking your windows files. Btw, if anyone claims that VS skins runs without a footprint, they are wrong. It's just "hidden" within one of them scvhost.exe processes running on your system.

Reply to Who Thinks... in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

What PixelPirate said. I'd very much doubt there would be submittet many really good fonts. Most likely it'd be fonts that barely includes the letters, signs and numbers for the most used characters on the english alphabet. And I've honestly had enough of them. Making fonts is by it self and artform and profession. And it's very hard to master. But by all means, I'm not saying that there are people around here that can do it, it's just going to

Reply to Do you think of Fitt's Law when you design? in Software Development WinCustomize Forums

The most issues I've had is the windows border not beeing hidden. Making sure that goes all the way off screen in maximised mode doesn't really restrict your design. Then it's the titlebar buttons. Even though the actuall visible button doesn't reach all the way to the top, the creator of the WB skins can easily make a transparent border to increase the clickable area and catch clicks that where one or two pixels off. Nothing much, do

Reply to New Display Technology in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Hm.. I seems that people don't realise that the screen isn't actually transparent. Nor is this a photoshop effect. They have taken a photo of their room without the monitor, (prolly in a tripod or something else that makes the camera stay still) then they cropped the picture and applied it as their background. Then taking a new photo of the room with the screen in place, giving the effect of a transparent screen.

Reply to What is the difference between WB and Visual Style? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

No problemo amigo.

Reply to How to get a Longhorn ExplorerBar? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

ExplorerBar as in Sidebars on your desktop or the Shell view in Explorer the file manager? For sidebars: www.smartbarxp.com and www.desktopsidebar.com . Or you could recreate it in DesktopX. For the Shellview, you'd have to look that the existing themes that does that.

Reply to How do i use the skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You downloaded a DesktopX theme. Not a skin for Windows. You will need DesktopX http://www.desktopx.net/ to open that theme.

Reply to Scripting Dynamic Callbacks in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Have a look into the WithEvents statement. Not sure if it helps, but it was all I could think of right now.

Reply to OK NEED HELP in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Where you running a widget? There is a widget manager in DX3 that gives you a list of running widgets and let you close them if you like. Have a look in your DX folder.

Reply to Desktop button and iff button in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

You mean Minimize to Desktop or Show Desktop so you can instantly see your desktop when you got windows open and "off" as in "Shut down computer". do you want the shut down options like restart and such or simply instantly shut down your computer?

Reply to How to make a bitmap graphic look it's cleanest in Icons WinCustomize Forums

Actually, there are programs that attempts convert bitmaps to vectors. Illustrator has a function like this, and I've seen others as well. However, it usually doens't work too well unless it's a somewhat minimalistic bitmap.

Reply to What is the difference between WB and Visual Style? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Msstyles is the filetype Microsoft created. However it was only intened that Microsoft made .msstyle for Windows and so they made a lock for the filetype. StyleXP is a program that hacks some of your Windows files and let you use other .msstyle files, usually a hacked Luna .msstyle. WindowBlinds doesn't hack, it hooks. It hooks into the messages sent in Windows that is related to painting the GUI and paints it own current skin instead of the standa

Reply to How to get a Longhorn ExplorerBar? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Where did you get this Longhorn Slate pack?

Reply to Do you think of Fitt's Law when you design? in Software Development WinCustomize Forums

Even though you don't create you own skins, doesn't mean you can't tell if a design is flawed or not. Even though it's easy to say and hard to do, I don't think it's any reason to settle for less. Not that I think any designer do. WB skins for instance is becomming increasingly more complicated to make, as more features are added. No wonder that there might be some glithes. Fortunatly, people will give feedback to the author, that's what I like about t

Reply to Guitar/bass tab Widget in Requests WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for that link wwww123. My brother an I was looking for tab in the past, but never found any good site. This one looks interesting. paul holmes: What most of these lyrics and other widgets that fetch info from the internet does is open the html file from whatever site may hold your information, then it extract the data you want. It's usually done by searching for a string that you know allways willbe infront of the info you need. This me

Reply to Facts of Santa in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Two words: "Quantium Leap" That solves everyting.