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Reply to My CPU fan is killing me... in Windows XP WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Shudder to think whats in my lungs [/quote] Especially from those cigs, those probably arent helping your PC either.

Reply to O.K. Let's have some fun............. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote] I thought I was at the end of a day from Hell when.. I was driving home when someone cut me off like the biggest ass in world. It really was the stupidest thing I have ever seen and I live in Massachusetts where people are the most selfish drivers in existance. I had to hit the brakes so hard I spilled hot coffee all over myself and my car. I came completely unglued. I chased the guy down until got behind him at a traffic light. I ran up to his driver window and was g

Reply to Vista Hating Shows Strength of XP in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

I have seen XP machines blue screen during a presentation. My vista machine only blue screened after opening 80 apps, crashing the DWM because my graphics card doesnt have enough memory, then closing all the apps, and trying to restart the DWM.

Reply to Zubaz on "This I Believe" in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Great job!

Reply to O.K. Let's have some fun............. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I let one rip in the middle of English class while we were all silent writing essays.

Reply to Goggle your name..... in Community WinCustomize Forums

apparently i am a us congressman. Results 1 - 10 of about 9,270,000 for sam johnson. (0.16 seconds)

Reply to i WANT this resolved....... in Community WinCustomize Forums

I personally think that Harmony was a community skin, but didn't have the correct "forum advertising" to get the word out, where more skins for programs could have been made for it. All community skins should have a large effort to get as many as possible working together to make a nice, massive suite.

Reply to Stardock announces DeskScapes 2.0 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

How soon is soon for a beta?

Reply to How would I speed this pig up? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

2k is very fast from my experience.

Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Alright, I opened up as many programs as I could think of, as well as 50 Firefox and explorer windows. [link="http://nas3.homeip.net/vista_stable.jpg"]vista_stable.jpg (click me)[/link] However, when trying to post that, DWM crashed, so I went into Services and tried to restart it. Unfortunately... [link="http://nas3.homeip.net/vista_error.jpg"]vista_error.jpg (click me)[/link] Ah well, it must just be my system, if I had a better one DWM wouldn't have crashed. <img src="smile

Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I tried opening 100 explorer windows to show how stable vista can be.. but then windowblinds stopped skinning them after about 60 and explorer crashed

Reply to How Do You Organize Your Inbox? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]How Do You Organize Your Inbox?[/quote] I don't.

Reply to [Solution] How to Reset / Recover Forgotten Windows Administrator Password? in Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Good info, didn't know about the third one

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Gongrats everyone!

Reply to New PC building help! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote] How would the BIOS know if thermal grease was applied or not guys? Come on... [/quote] It knows whether there is bacon or a processor there.

Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Of course, if you're dumb enough to buy a computer with 512MB memory to run WoW, etc, well, I'd say you shouldn't be surprised when your machine runs like a 90 year old on Quaaludes![/quote] Which is why it really isn't an issue yet.

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Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Home Basic runs fine on 512mb RAM from what I have seen in stores. Server 2008 I have run with only 128mb, and it runs fine. It starts getting sluggish only when you get down to 64mb. 32mb won't boot

Reply to Memory use myths in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote] Mine uses a bit more than 500kb of memory. Granted I don't really care cause ive got lots of ram... (im guessing wbvista.exe = wbload.exe for xp) [/quote] Mine's at 1,104 K, but I'm on 32-bit not 64-bit like you. I also have a VistaSrv "WindowBlinds Service" process taking up 672 K.

Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote] Many more have had little to no problems then those who have. I find that hard to believe. [/quote] I don't.

Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote] Vista is Windows 5, really, isn't it? Can't wait for Windows 6. The odd numbers always suck. [/quote] Vista is Windows 6, XP is 5.1, 2000 is 5.

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Bacon pizza

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Black olives ick

Reply to 7 things I hate about Vista in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Option to rid the UAC, done, Checking your system to see if something installed that it doesn't like? How? Compatibility mode, Done everything works except for Railroad Tycoon 2 which is apparently 16bit so I'm fucked unless I figure out how to run a virtual machine, which I have attempted without success. [/quote] Spyware, adware scans etc. Switching to 32bit Vista will allow you to run 16-bit programs again.