Reply to I've Been Had in Laptops WinCustomize Forums

Can't say I've been swindled, but I also purchased an IBM thinkpad recently. I work for an OEM, and they decided to have an employee sale. I'm one of the fortunate ones that work the night shift. As the sale started at 9 in the morning, and my shift ends at 9 in the morning, I was one of the first through the door for the sale. Now, the way our employee sales are set up, we have the usual stuff that we sell (desktops, notebooks, monit

Reply to Wonder if Mac and I should Part Ways in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

You could go to http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/search.asp?mnf=821&cat=17 and check out the Systemax notebooks. They start at less than $700.00.

Reply to CerebroJD Gives Smileys a Face Lift in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

oops... I meant to say denominations of money. Wasn't logged in, so I can't edit my post.

Reply to Hard drive migration help in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Boot with a Windows 98 startup disk or CD. Run fdisk. Choose option 2. Set the partition that you want to boot to as active. Escape from fdisk. Run fdisk /mbr. Remove the disk. Restart. Done.

Reply to What's the point? Why have the site at all? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yep.... all the good stuff wot they all sed! You have mail Mr. Wardell. (No... most definitely not nasty mail )

Reply to New visual theme from Microsoft in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hehehe..... said it before, i'll say it again, if the guys at microsoft wanna make decent windows themes, then they surely need to hire some of the people who upload their skins 'n' stuff here to do the job right. you skinners can take the ms guys to school

Reply to scary USB stick experience! be warned. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Disable boot from USB in the BIOS and that wont happen again.

Reply to PayPal: Is it really REALLY safe? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've been using Paypal for a couple of years now with no problems. I've found it to be safe as well as convenient for eBay autions. One word of caution though, you will be receiving emails from time to time telling you that your registration with Paypal is about to expire, or telling you that they are conducting security updates, or.... or..... or..... The two things that these emails have is that 1) they will take you to an http URL and not an https URS (the missing s will te

Reply to Amamax new site look competition in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I honestly had no intention of offending anyone when I made this post. I thought that this may be a good opportunity for someone who is just getting started to maybe get some small reward for their efforts, as well as a bit of recognition. Besides which, most of the people here put many hours of work into their art for absolutely no reward at all. I apologise for having offended.

Amamax new site look competition in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Amamax, an online computer part retail site would like to get a new look for their web site, and are holding a competition. The winner of the competition wins a new computer case with a power supply (according to the information on their site). I thought that this would be a good place to post this little snippet of information because there is more artistic talent running around loose on this site than you can shake a stick at. I mean that sincerely <img src="http://images.stardock.com

Reply to im cleaning out my closet (or something similar) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

#6 by Rocky Nimda - 2/11/2004 3:55:12 PM If you are talking about building it yourself, check out Link Not trying to be put down any suggestions here, but I'd think twice about buying from Tiger Direct. That way may lay a lot of heartache and pain when you need support on whatever you buy from them. I say this not as a customer, but as an empl

Reply to I need help again ... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You might try http://1and1.com 500 MB web space 5,000 MB/month traffic ($.99 per GB for additional traffic) No limits on simultaneous hits/bandwidth Protected by firewall Daily backups of your website 99.9% Uptime guarantee I believe they support Java and a bunch of other stuff. The one drawback that I've seen with them is that there is no ASP support. Otherwise, their service is great, and it's free for three years.

Reply to This is not a rant!!!!!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Be warned though, it can be very addicting. Kinda figured that one out already. Seems that I never get any work done these days 'cos I'm spending too much time here. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="

This is not a rant!!!!!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've said this before, and I don't hesitate to say it again..... Stardock; it's management and employees, wincustomize.com; it's management (mods and admins), skinners and inhabitants all rock. I've spent countless hours of my life on this site, and still keep on coming back here almost every day. No other site on the web has ever claimed so much of my time.... Ever! I wish all of you guys a most prosperous, healthy and happy new year. Take real good care of yourselv

Reply to Does anybody like cars here? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

#16 by Kona0197 - 12/26/2003 3:19:52 PM what part of forign cars suck do you not understand? I'm South African, so American cars are foreign to me, and yes Kona, you're so right. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" border=0 ALIGN="ab

Reply to how i ended up at wincustomize... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

#9 by Sir EventHorizon - 12/21/2003 12:23:45 PM Yeah, WC is like a Black Hole You have passed the EventHorizon, you will never escape. So true

Reply to Discouraged. Is our community as we know it coming to an end? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

A lot of the ideas that people have thrown out there are good ones, but nobody seems to have taken into account that reaching the download cap for non-subscribers can be be dragged out over a long period of time, and that when people have pretty much an unlimited time span to reach a decision as to whether or not to purchase a subscription, they will most likely not make the decision to buy. How about putting a time limit on non-subscription accounts? Have them expire after say 60 days

Reply to XP password problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Looks like he needs a boot disk that can read NTFS volumes to be able to get into the drive so that he can recover some of his smaller files (those that'll fit on a floppy disk), and to delete the .pwl file if anyone comes up with the name of the .pwl file that holds the XP log on passwords. You can download an XP boot diskette that will allow you to read NTFS volumes here: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Here's another link that may help if you have an XP box and your

Reply to XP password problem in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Tell your uncle to boot into safe mode by tapping on F8 when he powers on and choosing the appropriate options. He can then log in as administrator at the welcome screen. Once he is logged in, he can go into user accounts and fix the password problem. Hope he hasn't set a password for the default administrator account

Reply to Come on people in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I don't post here very often for the reasons that Keila stated in her post. There are times when I feel like jumping in and saying exactly what Keila said, but I refrain for obvious reasons. She's right on the money with this one. Before taking any kind of action people, be it purchasing a new car or slamming someone on a message board, get the facts.... always get the facts!

Reply to Moderator appreciation thread! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

and I am here to say that JAFO, BoXXi, Pax, Koasati, KarmaGirl, Mormegil, MikeB, DavidK and and anyone I forgot have all my respect and gratitude. Job well done, all of you! I'll drink to that

Reply to R I A A A ! ! Are we Scared?! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Here's a question that noone here seems to have considered yet (if i'm mistaken, correct me).... Are the musicians getting anything out of the settlements that the RIAA are making out of court, and if any of these cases do actually make it to court and fines are imposed on the people who are found guilty of illegally downloading copyrighted music, are the musicians getting anything out of that? Seems that the musicians are getting a raw deal either way!

Reply to I 'm bored some 1 play with me ! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Here's the link to curve ball that was mentioned earlier in the thread. http://www.mhavard.freeserve.co.uk/movies/CurveBall.swf Have fun with it foxybeige

Reply to This too has been said before :-) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

And Jafo didn't even spell check me..... hehehehehe . Meant every word I said. You guys are a pretty good crowd. Entertaining at times too lol. Yep.... I'm gonna be here for a while. Maybe even learn how to skin one of these days.

This too has been said before :-) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've been hanging around WC for quite a while, and I eventually even decided that based on the content and the quality of the good folk that are part of the WC community, a subscription would be a good thing to have. So with that in mind, I purchased a subscription, and I event went as far as purchasing the full suite of Stardock software in an attempt to support a great site (Don't know what I'm gonna do with Skin Studio as I'm one of the severely Artistically Challenged <img src="http://images