I will not install SP2 due to the fact that SP2 has a weird affect on my system. It slows down boot time to 4 minutes. It slows down the whole system to the point that it takes 2 minutes to launch any application. I have an Nvidia Nforce chipset and I have read there is problems between SP2 and Nforce chipsets. <
Cool looking building. Congratulations!
A 7-year-old flaw that could let an attacker place malicious content on trusted Web sites has resurfaced in the most recent Firefox browser, Secunia has warned. The flaw, which also affects some other Mozilla Foundation programs, lies in the way the software handles frames, which are a way of showing Web content in separate parts of the browser window. The applications don't check whether the frames displayed in a single window all origi
Tabbed browsing is the greatest invention since browsing...Its like crack, honest. I'm not qualified to make that comparison , but I do agree with the first part of your statement. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/
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As far as usability, Watercolor XP would have to be up there. Great color scheme, good buttons and tabs, etc.
I just tried CCleaner (thanks for the tips), and was very impressed. It's simple and fast, and seems to do a great job. Only problem was, it kept bringing up the same odd broken file associations, even though I kept telling to clean them up. No big deal, though.
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My widgets have always remembered their position...the only time I have a problem is if I close a widget and I'm on a different resolusion...I've had widgets " lost " because they went below taskbar. But thanks to buzzh58 for figuring out a solution to this lost widget problem ...I no longer have to delete them. The easiest s
I'm addicted to transparency effects. As well you should be. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/icons/wc.gif" border=0 alt="Posted via WinCustomize Browser/Stardoc
An interesting article. Thanks, Tarkus. You're welcome. Something that
Indeed he says "most"... But he makes it sound like the balance is negligeable, and I'm not too sure it's that negligeable. And while it's true that a lot of people use pirated copies of software because they can't affort it, I don't think it represents even a majority. You may be right, but just becaus
Also, while I disagree with the developers who claim that every pirated software downloaded is a lost sale, the opposite is also wrong. This article suggests that no pirated software downloaded is a lost sale at all. Where does it suggest that? He said most people using warez sites would not ha
I hope I didn't downplay it too much in my opening summary, because I agree with you guys that it's a great, great article. Certainly worth reading by anyone interested in the subject, particularly developers.
I have a name for the new Mac with Intel Inside: MATTEL <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/icons/wc.gif" border=0 alt="Posted via WinCustomize Browser/Star
I'm going to disagree a little bit. Even though 1280x1024 is a bit of an odd resolution (as discussed in another thread), any program that does a decent job of resampling should be able to convert a 1024x768 or 1600x1200 wallpaper to 1280x1024 with very little loss in quality. Now if you're just depending on Windows to stretch/shrink the image for you, that's different. But if you really like the wallpaper, use a graphics program to
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But it does suck tat dreamweaver and photoshop and office xp are windows only. Not sure about the others, but I think Photoshop is available on Macs, too. <img src="htt
such an installer would weight roughly 35mb, and would be outdated a few weeks after it's release. 35mb seems pretty insignificant for something as important as a desktop shell, considering it's a one-time install. (Updates should only have to change what's necessary.) I have no interest in Li
Sweet! I was just checking out some of their stuff a short while ago.
This is not a new article, but it's new to me, and it remains very relevant. It's refreshing because the writer is a software developer, and yet he actually dissects the issue of piracy with logic, instead of emotion. That's rare. Heck, it's rare for anyone, let alone a software developer. Perhaps there's nothing groundbreaking here, but I've never seen the issue so thoroughly and well laid out. I wish every developer would read
What's the secret to using MS Anti-spyware? I've installed it something like three times at Windows Update, and see nothing in my Start menu. But when I go back to WU, it doesn't prompt me to install it again, so it must be somewhere. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/icons/wc.gif" border=0 alt="Posted via WinC
Hold down Control to stop an application from being skinned.
- expect to see people on both sides of the fence moaning about this, and applauding it. This is the only one of your predictions of which I'm certain. <img src="http:/
I think they only need to be rebooted if you're running them during installation. If you close them, and then update them, then you won't have to reboot (at least that's the case with ObjectDock and DesktopX). Well, IP is not a resident program, so that doesn't wash. Other programs (except perh
Steve Ballmer responds to the news. Link
What about a Gidget site?