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Reply to Control Programs on startup in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you use the freeware program Spybot-Search & Destroy, it has a very good tool built in for managing your Startup, much better than MSCONFIG, in my opinion. You can find it by running Spybot in advanced mode, in the tools section. It will not only allow you to see whats in your startup configuration, it will even give you a description of what most of the items are and what the effects will be of removing the items. It allows you to Selectively disable items at startup or completely delete the

Reply to Time Zones in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

As previously mentioned, Daylight savings time is not observed in American Samoa and those counties in Indiana. Arizona also does not observe Daylight Savings Time except for the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe it. Hawaii also does not observe DST. Other regions affiliated with the US which do not observe DST include Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. <A HRE

Reply to Latest SysMetrix Issue in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

In that case, I would suggest saving your themes to a temporary folder in my documents or somewhere, and then try completely uninstalling and then reinstalling Sysmetrix 3.03. What you're describing should not be happening, so I think something got corrupted during the install. Good luck, and let us know how it turns out, please. <A HREF="https://www.wincustomize.com/index.asp?Cmd=full&New

Reply to Latest SysMetrix Issue in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I am pretty sure that this is a bug in this build. It is a development build and sometimes little annoyances like this popup. I've gotten the same message on a few skins, and just ignored it, and the skins worked just as they were intended. Have you actually had any problems loading the theme after you get this message? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle" ALT="

Reply to How do you control size of toolbars in IE? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Almost done. Working on Toolbar icons and Animations now. If my paid work gives me a break this week, I should have it up by next weekend. I''ve been busier than a spinster at a church social, but I suppose there are worse things to complain about. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmi

Reply to Latest Update in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

Click with your mouse on the checkbox where it says "Login using existing Wincustomize account," even if it is already checked, and it won't be grayed out anymore. Weird, I know, but it works.

Reply to Desktop X clock object in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

I'll try to write you a small tutorial tonight and post it for you tomorrow.

Reply to How Far Can You S-T-R-E-T-C-H a buck? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I can stretch my dollars all the way from my hand to the hand of my girlfriend. I have no idea what happens to them after that. But I'm not hungry, the bills get paid and there is cold beer in the fridge when I want one. Works for me...

Reply to What the!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You're joking right? Please tell me you're joking... That you did not just insult the work of hundreds of artists at once...

Reply to Anyone really know how to get rid of gophers???????? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Pave your yard with concrete. Let the little buggers try to burrow through that. Cuts down on yardwork, too.

Reply to Desktop X clock object in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

I don't know of an "easy way" but the way I do it is to create a new vector layer with a vertical line which spans between the bottom of where I want my 12 and the top of where I want my 6. I then duplicate and rotate the line by 30 degrees. Repeat this step 4 times. I then create a new layer for my numbers and use the guidelines I just created to align the numbers. Afterwards I just delete the layer with the guidelines. This is the easiest way I know of to do it. Hope it helps a little. <img s

Reply to How do you control size of toolbars in IE? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the tip, SNK... you got me to the right church, I just had to find the right pew myself. Turns out the sizing margin of the button itself affects the height. Not the content margins, but the sizing margin. Still experimenting, but Using the KewkHoE skin for example with Google Toolbar. Content margins 0,0,0,0 and Sizing Margins were like L4,R10,T12,B10. changed those visually to just include button edges to L3,R3,T3,B4 and left the cointent margins alone and voila! The size of the bar

How do you control size of toolbars in IE? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

What controls the height of the second level toolbar in Internet Explorer? When IE is opened, you have the Titlebar, then the menutoolbar which is controlled by the height of the throbber, and then a second bar below that if you have Google toolbar, standard toolbar buttons, link bar, etc. It is this second bar that is driving me crazy, because it comes up different sizes in every skin I open, and it is way larger than it needs to be, but I can't seem to find any margin settings that control thi

Reply to I am quitting smoking in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Just a suggestion, kona, but give your cigarettes to your wife/girlfriend/friend/neighbor. That way you have to make more effort to get them, and you think a little bit more about whether you really need one. It helped me to cut down until I was ready to quit completely. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/

Reply to What the hell did I pay $20 for? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's on your profile, Ghos. I've only downloaded 275MB, but I'm young... Well, not young, but new... Ok, not that new, but I do have subscriptions to Object Desktop and WinCustomize, so I don't feel guilty... Well, I do feel guilty but not about my downloads... Ummm.. I'm going now. <img src="http://images.stardock.co

Reply to A question about iconpackager... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Helen, Did you buy IconPackager or any other software from Stardock or are you using the free versions of the programs? If you bought the programs from Stardock, then you used SDC, which means Stardock Central, to download the programs from Stardock. Stardock Central is also what you should use to download updates for the programs. To answer your question about why your icon packages you downloaded do not work anymore, we first need to know what version of Icon Package

Reply to Help with windowblinds skin problem. in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

"New Programs Installed" should only show up in a tooltip after you have installed new items in the Programs section of the Start menu. It is supposed to disappear again after you have clicked on the item in the More Programs menu. As far as I know, there is no way in WindowBlinds or in Windows XP to control the location of the tooltip. You can disable the tooltip if you want to keep it from showing up. Right click on the Start Button and click on Properties. It should open on the Start

Reply to A question about iconpackager... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Reading between the lines, I think perhaps Helen is referring to the icon packages which were available as "extras" on a few occasions through SDC for Object Desktop subscribers. For a time they were listed immediately below the IconPackager line on the Software tab of SDC, but are no longer there. Are those the packages you mean, Helen? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN

Reply to please remove in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It seems to be working fine here, NT2K. https://www.stardock.com/products/WindowBlindsUtilities/ that's the same link as posted on the front page, but it works here. I don't know what else to say...

Reply to photoshop? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

re: post #2 I''ve been using Adobe''s Photoshop since Version 3 was new on the market, and subsequently upgraded to each version as it was released, even beta testing a few. I tried JASC''s PaintShop Pro when version 4 came out and laughed, then gave it to my nephews. That was pretty much the end of it for me until recently. A good friend demonstrated PSP8 for me, and I have to say, I have rarely been as surprised and impressed as I am with how much the product has grown. For a

Reply to How often do you change WB skins? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I change skins several times a day. I'm constantly taking skins apart, trying to learn how they did certain things, tweaking them a bit to get them just the way I like them. And when I'm not doing that, I'm testing my own skins. Someday I may actually quit tweaking and testing and actually upload them. <img src="http://ima

Reply to Congrats to Kona in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Congratulations kona! Well deserved.

Reply to Ridiculous Gas prices? I'll thank Bush. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Maybe I do. But this is the second time in the past few days that I've seen you making claims about Aussies vs Americans that turned out not to be accurate, and this after I don't know how many other sly digs and outright slurs upon the character, culture, intelligence, etc of "merkins" (your term in at least one post for Americans). And, by the way, I do know what a merkin is. I have t

Reply to Ridiculous Gas prices? I'll thank Bush. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Maybe I'll start smiling when you start backing off of the Anti-American remarks.

Reply to Ridiculous Gas prices? I'll thank Bush. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

34,000 square Kms That's not even 5% of the land area of Texas... Guess the Aussies are better than exaggeration than Texans, though... and that is an accomplishment. <img