Mark Phelps

Mark Phelps

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Unable to download any product updates in Accounts and Activation Help Stardock Forums

For nearly a month now, since March 13th, I have been unable to download any product updates. I use both Windows 11 and Start 11 and both of those are now out of date, with no apparent way to bring them up to date. I can not even see my available downloads anymore as any attempt to login to that page generates an error saying your site is having technical problems. Unfortunately, those problems did not prevent your company from automatically renewing my annual subscripti

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Reply to Macrium Reflect v8 in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

It was the same with Windowblinds and Win10. Had to exclude the following: MacriumService.exe reflectbin.exe ReflectMonitor.exe ReflectUI.exe MR runs, but the contents of the buttons are hidden, so you can't really use it -- until you exclude all the MR components that have buttons.

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Reply to WindowBlinds 11 planning in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

OK, then I misspoke -- as I realize that OD includes lots of apps. What I should have said is that I cut back to only Startxx and WB. I did, but no longer do, use the other OD apps.

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Reply to WindowBlinds 11 planning in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I have an Object Desktop subscription that is expiring and currently costs $20 to renew. The Retail price is $50. When it first came out, with Win7, I subscribed to OD because I could download and run nearly a dozen different apps. Over time, this has cut back to Startxx and Windowblinds -- which means they cost me $10 each, more than the $5 (?) for Startxx alone but not enough to matter for me. But I don't really want to keep paying the OD renewal year after year, hop

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Reply to Start11 RC3 Issue Report Thread in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I saw another thread about this but can not find it right now. Have three screens, with center one Primary, and installing this Start11 version results in no response on any screen when clicking the start button. Restored to the previous Start11 version and it works fine. Running Win11 build 22000.282.

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Settings for Start11 in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I just upgraded to Win11 RTM (22000.194) -- I had been using the Beta for some time now -- and downloaded and installed Start11 v 0.55 -- and it seems to work OK -- no issues with File Manager. But I accidentally chose the option to move the taskbar to the left and NOW, I really want to move it back to the center -- but unlike with Start10, I can not find how to open the Start 11 settings. Is there some key combination? UPDATE: I found the Start11 beta threa

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Reply to Why should an MS account be required to install W11? in Windows Discussion WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="11" id="3810823"] Can anyone confirm what I have heard that Windows 11 will only allow apps from the Microsoft app store? I have quite a few old programs and games I like to use, be a shame if MS said you can only install apps from the store. If it's true I guess a lot of people can't use Firefox or Chrome on 11. [/quote] What you heard is wrong. I have Win11 running on two old PCs, one upgrade, one clean install and on both, I

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Reply to Object Desktop in 2019 in Stardockians WinCustomize Forums

Well ... I started out here using Start8 -- when MS decided EVERYONE had switched over from Desktops to using touch-screen Tablets and clearly did NOT need a Start Menu anymore! Then, when I came here, I found out about WindowBlinds and a bunch of other SD apps that made life in Win8x a lot easier -- so I subscribed to OD. I think my usage went up to about a dozen SD apps, and I downloaded LOTS of Blinds. But over the years, things have changed. Now, I only use WB and Start10.

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Reply to I’m wondering what MS will do… in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I would stay with Windows, but the version would depend on the ongoing costs. I would certainly NOT pay $84 a year to run Win10 on any of my PCs, so if they go with that model, I would revert the ones I could, and see about Win8x for the others. I'd rather pay a $100 one-time fee for Win8.1 from Newegg, than "rent" an OS for a monthly rate from MS.

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WB 8.13 icon disappeared from hidden icons taskbar "box" in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Have been running WB 8.13 since it was released in Oct 2015 (and earlier versions before that) and never had any problems. But then today, when I wanted to change the Style, I opened the hidden icons box in the taskbar -- and the WB icon was missing! I know WB was still running because the existing style was still in effect on the desktop. Since I couldn't find any way to restart WB, I uninstalled it, rebooted, opened Object Desktop Manager, reinstalled WB 8.13 fro

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Reply to WindowBlinds 8 and Windows 10 in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote who="XxrkylexX" reply="28" id="3580151"] Haha! It's called learning the new OS and adapting. In a sense, people who want the OS to stay exactly the same I'd say aren't that intelligent. [/quote]Moving a bunch of stuff out of Control Panel into Settings is just arbitary! Metroizing IE into Edge and leaving out lots of the features -- is stupid! Creating a half-legacy/half-metro Start Menu that's the worst of both worlds -- another change that is stupid!&

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Reply to Mozilla Firefox Now Comes in x64 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I've been using WaterFox for some time now -- 64-bit version of Firefox, and unlike the FireFox release, WaterFox is not beta. There's also something called CyberFox, which is another 64-bit version of Firefox -- and they just came out with a v37 beta.

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Reply to Keurig - Bringing DRM to Coffee in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

I too read about this limitation with the new Keurig 2.0 brewers, but didn't interpret that to mean that only GMC k-cups could be used. I also use "generic" k-cups with my Keurig (1.0) and thought this new machine would only scan the k-cup surface for known brands. But then, I bought the Keurig to quickly make single cups of coffee. If I wanted to go back to brewing a "pot" of coffee each time, I'd dust off the old "Mr. Coffee" and use it.

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Windowblinds cause desktop restart loop on Win10 TP 64-bit in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Have tried installing Windowblinds on Win10 TP 64-bit and with both versions 8.06 and 8.09, while the install seems to work OK, after a subsequent reboot, you get into a desktop restart loop -- where the desktop startes to come up, blinks, and restarts. Solved this by restoring from a backup taken before WB was installed. Not testing Win10 TP anymore because I used up two activations, one for 8.06 and one for 8.09, and don't want to risk my Win 8.1 copy being deactivated.</p

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Reply to WindowBlinds 8.09 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="victorian gray" reply="17" id="3512246"] Updated 8.06 to .09 and reverted back right after the required reboot as Directory Opus was broken (both clicking on the desktop to get a new lister and right clicking to 'open new lister'. Too bad. Hopefully figured out and fixed soon? [/quote] Same here. Running DirOpus v11.8 and noticed after applying this update that it wouldn't launch anymore. Reinstalled Windowblinds 8.06 and DirOpu

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Reply to WindowBlinds and Windows 10 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="2" id="3497437"] I'm sure he didn't have the new version. Would be my guess. [/quote] I was using v1.45. Since then, v1.46 Beta has come out, and while I do use that on my Win8.1 install, I have not tried it on my Win10 install.

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