Lotherius

Lotherius

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II Takes 2006 By Storm in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Not like there's any 4x competition at all anymore ... not a jab at stardock, as GC2 is a very fine product... but just a lament about the state of the games industry that only FPS, RTS and MMORPGs get any development anymore. I liked some of the old simulators, like Capitalism 2, SimCity series (and most of Maxis' other Pre-EA stuff) and obviously Stardock's GC series. Now it seems like if I don't want to play Everquest/WOW, or an annoying realtime st

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Reply to PC World Raves Over ObjectDock 1.5 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It's the first StarDock program I registered, before getting Object Desktop... however, I rarely use it anymore... Configuring it seems to take too much time these days, though not a fault of the program really. Mostly just trying to find high-res icons for everything.

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Reply to Blog: Will Windows Vista attract new skinners? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well, it is going to be one way or the other - pay for Windowblinds or pay for the Skins... I don't think the community would like both, unless in the end the money seemed fair and affordable. I know that for myself, I frequently change skins, and don't stick with one for long, except for maybe Aura, which is the new default. Maybe what's happened is that the novelty of a 'blind has worn off. There's only so many variations on a theme, as th

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Every time I spend tokens, my email reverts to an old email address in TotalGaming.net WinCustomize Forums

I was an "early adopter" I guess of the TotalGaming system, back when it was Drengin.net.... Recently I got a notice that my tokens would be expired at the end of the year if I didn't spend them, so I found a couple of things to buy... preorder the next galciv expansion, and buy spacerangers 2... However, with each of those purchases, I immediately got errors logging in. Took me a while on the first one to figure it out... My email address had reverted from my current one to one I haven't

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Reply to IE 7 Final To Be Released Today in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well this sucks.... I was using the last release candidate with no problems. I downloaded the final, and rebooted... and now no IE.. .it pops up an IE window for a split second, hangs in the taskbar at half-wide size (that is, not even fully open) and then disappears. I use firefox 99% of the time... but no IE is still bad.... I do have to use it once in a blue moon.

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Reply to Ebay, bite me, you racist company in Internet WinCustomize Forums

The email did come from paypal. In addition, paypal made the decision they claim to freeze my account based on information they have revieved from the federal governemt concerning the name jesus lopez. Let me make MYSELF prefectly clear. If we don't see proof of this, we're going to all assume it is a

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Reply to Google Goes Solar-Powered in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Yay google... they maybe an evil giant, but they're an evil giant that I for one welcome. The US (as well as the world) needs to find a serious commitment to solar power. People wine about cloudy days, etc... the fact is you don't have to drop off the grid if you go solar. Days you have a shortage of power, you pull from the grid. Days when you have more sun than energy needs you sell back to the grid. All new construction over 2

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What do I WANT about EDUCATION in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

I'm quoting Draginol's post here: Link a bit. I'm responding to his issues from a point of view of how they affect education. [quote]#3 Corporate Tax cuts.[/quote] Of course Draginol wants this - he is a businessperson. People in a position to vote themselves larger pieces of the pie will by human n

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Office DeSpot in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

I just sent a very long complaint to Office Depot HQ... have no idea if it will get any ears, don't really care, I guess. I just had to send it. The gist is that yesterday I was bored and walked into an Office Depot. I've been considering buying a laser printer, since over the longrun ink costs are less than inkjet if you refill your own toner. N

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Reply to When Did The Internet Stop Being "Amazing"? in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Back to the topic.... I've been on the net since 1994... BBS systems back to 1991, and have had a computer since I was 8 years old in 1982 (Commodore Vic-20, something like 2 or 5k of RAM, 1mhz (maybe)... Motorolla 6502 processor, and ran BASIC. Too poor to have a disk drive or tape drive, so I had to type in any programs I wanted to use, and they got erased when I turned it off (or if the power went out). Okay, when did the internet cease t

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Reply to McAfee SiteAdvisor in Wincustomize.com in Community WinCustomize Forums

Well the site advisor report on downloads appears to be automated, whereas the reviews are done by community members.... I'm not quite sure what the reviewer saw. I think what happens on the automated review is it downloads the first 9 files it finds, whatever they are, and scans them for problems.

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McAfee SiteAdvisor in Wincustomize.com in Community WinCustomize Forums

I just discovered an interesting website review and evaluation site provided by McAfee. Of course the first thing I do is plug in Stardock.com to see how it rates. Green - no problems. However, it connects Stardock to WinCustomize (as it should do), and clicking on WinCustomize, I see they rate it a "yellow" site, not green. Looking at the comments, apparently people are claiming that WC has popunders, popups, and even browser hijacks! Let's get some people over there to fill in mo

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Reply to AMD Buys ATI, Slashes Prices in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I've been saying for over 6 months, that AMD was inflating the prices (not lowering as costs decreased) of their CPUs due to their speed dominance. And I'm right - the very moment Intel puts out a faster chip, AMD drops their prices nearly 50%... They couldn't do that if the prices weren't being inflated to begin with.

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Reply to Weather Alarm Clock in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

While I agree with some others that $20 seems a bit much for myself to buy this program, I don't think it's right to demand that it be free either. If it were a $5 or $10 program I might actually pay for it. $20 does seem a bit too high, but not everyone should work for free.

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Reply to WindowFX 3 released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Lotherius, are you using TweakUI? If you have the OS menu delay settings set to 0 via that, you can get repaint issues with the submenus under Start. Actually... yes. Good point (that tweak autoloads on my compy of XP when I install, one of the registry tweaks I've set)... Moving the slider

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Reply to WindowFX 3 released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm having problems with menu animations leaving behind artifacts and garbage all over the screen.... See my thread here: https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=191&AID=120144 (posted before I saw this)...

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Animations Buggy in WindowFX WinCustomize Forums

WindowFX is a bit buggy on my system. I like the animation effects on the menus, but they leave behind garbage on my screen. Application windows do this sometimes too. My animations are configured to Expand & Shrink.. I've tried others, and have similar results... Your Machine Details: Your video card is: RADEON 9800 XT Your driver version is: 6.14.10.6614 Constant Alpha Blending is accelerated by these drive

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Reply to Blast from the past: Stardock Magazine 1997 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Sad to say, by 1997 I had given up on OS/2.... I was learning the pains of 95 OSR2 (first real usable 95, original release was the suck)... OS/2 really was the superior OS in my book, back in the day, but IBM dropped the ball big time with it. The industry isn't going to follow any OS maker that loses confidence in its own product (look at what happened to BeOS, which was promising for about 3 weeks).. I'm glad something good came

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