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Reply to Purchase plan in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

I'm having the same PayPal problem. This may be more than just a bank issue. Could PayPal be under attack?

Reply to WindowBlinds 8.09 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Followup to my last post: When I attempted to reinstall WB 8.06 using ODM, the installation complained about a decompression error with the TGA files in a blind called "Precision". I aborted the installation and deleted what I believed to be a bad blind, then tried to reinstall. Again the installation complained about the "Precision" blind. Clearly this blind must be packaged with WB 8.06, so I just skipped over the problem files, but it then stumbled over another packaged blind called "Win8"

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Because WB 8.09 reported 8.06 even though ODM reported 8.09 (see my previous post), I took the opportunity to uninstall WB and clean the registry. After a reboot, I ran ODM and discovered that WB 8.09 was no longer available! Now I have to reinstall WB 8.06 because Stardock apparently pulled WB 8.09 without any notification. What a waste of my time... [e digicons]>:([/e]

Reply to New virus CryptoDefender is worse than CryptoLocker. UPDATE. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="8" id="3457109"] Quoting kku, reply 5 The sophistication of CryptoDefender and CryptoLocker indicates state sponsored viruses. I would guess that either China or North Korea are behind it, but I wouldn't eliminate the NSA from the short list! May I interest you in

Reply to WindowBlinds 8.09 Released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Updated mine and it still says 8.06 I had the same problem when I attempted to upgrade to 8.06: WB kept reporting 8.05 while ODM reported 8.06. I had to uninstall WB, then clean the registry. Installing WB 8.06 then reported correctly. I have the same problem after upgrading to 8.09: WB reports 8.06 while ODM reports 8.09. Obviously something is being missed in the registry when upgrading.

Reply to You’re overpaying for slow internet. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I pay US$41 to AT&T for 3.0Mb/s download and 0.5Mb/s upload DSL. I live in Muskogee County Oklahoma outside of the city limits so I don't have access to cable, but I manage to get by just fine. I have no sympathy for those who whine that 50Mb/s is too slow!

Reply to James Garner, gone at 86 in Everything Else WinCustomize Forums

I regularly watch Maverick on the Starz Western Channel. Tonight I am watching "Up Periscope".

Reply to Free treasure trove of Ebooks from MS: 130 of them. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Wow, I've been looking for technical eBooks: 1kUAt6F, 1r1y9MB, and 1j8qQm4! As you may guess I am a little annoyed that I have to blindly download an eBook in order to determine whether it may be of interest to me.

Reply to Your Antivirus Is Watching You in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Everyone seems to expect a free and open internet as well as personal privacy. These two concepts are mutually exclusive!

Reply to WindowBlinds 8.05 Now Available in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="8" id="3466674"] Quoting kku, reply 6 Object Desktop Manager says that WB 8.05 is installed, but when I hover over the WB icon in the system tray, it says WB 8.04 is installed. Windows 7 Home Premium (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144) WindowBlinds 8.04 (025 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS Wblind.dll 2014/04/22 13:21:ll Wblind64.dll 2014/04/22 13:21:49 Wbsrv.dll 2013/06/18 08:44:40 WB8Config.exe 2014/

Reply to WindowBlinds 8.05 Now Available in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Object Desktop Manager says that WB 8.05 is installed, but when I hover over the WB icon in the system tray, it says WB 8.04 is installed. Windows 7 Home Premium (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144) WindowBlinds 8.04 (025 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS Wblind.dll 2014/04/22 13:21:ll Wblind64.dll 2014/04/22 13:21:49 Wbsrv.dll 2013/06/18 08:44:40 WB8Config.exe 2014/05/14 07:23:17 Wbload.dll 2014/01/16 09:15:08 Screen.exe 2013/06/06 08:52:23

Reply to Question about DVD drives. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I use an external 1TB hard disk and Casper disk clone software. Casper creates a bootable, incremental clone of your hard drive. Every evening I hook up the external hard drive to the SATA-3 USB port on my laptop. Casper automatically starts up and updates the clone. This typically takes only 10 minutes, but will take longer if I have installed a big package or the defragger has decided that my internal drive needs attention. Cost: US$130 for the 1TB external hard drive, Casper 8.0 US

Reply to Heartbleed bug in encryption software creates data leak across large parts of the net. UPDATE 2 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The software engineer that introduced the bug was quoted as "it was an accident" ( http://www.zdnet.com/heartbleeds-engineer-it-was-an-accident-7000028335/ )!

Reply to New virus CryptoDefender is worse than CryptoLocker. UPDATE. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="8" id="3457109"] Quoting kku, reply 5 The sophistication of CryptoDefender and CryptoLocker indicates state sponsored viruses. I would guess that either China or North Korea are behind it, but I wouldn't eliminate the NSA from the short list! May I interest you in my latest range of tinfoil headwear?.... China isn't going to jeopardize its international trade with anything so stupid... ...and Nth Korea hasn&#3

Reply to Heartbleed bug in encryption software creates data leak across large parts of the net. UPDATE 2 in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The NSA and GCHQ must be furious that their window into secure communications has been discovered!

Reply to New virus CryptoDefender is worse than CryptoLocker. UPDATE. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The sophistication of CryptoDefender and CryptoLocker indicates state sponsored viruses. I would guess that either China or North Korea are behind it, but I wouldn't eliminate the NSA from the short list!

Reply to What should I by for a gaming computer? in Everything Else WinCustomize Forums

When the hardware requirements for Skyrim were announced in the summer of 2011, I realized that my current laptop would not handle it. I need to be mobile, so a desktop system was out of the question. I finally settled on the MSi GT780DXR which comes with an i7-2630QM CPU, 16GB RAM, 2@750GB HDD (raid0) and an NVIDIA GTX570M GPU with 1.5GB GDDR5. Cost: US$1900 Today's graphics oriented games not only require a high performance GPU, but also a CPU, RAM and HDD that can keep the GPU

Reply to Solid State Hard Drives in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I replaced the pair of 750GB (raid0) in my MSi GT6780DXR gaming laptop with a pair of Seagate 1TB (raid1) solid state hybrid hard drives. 1TB HDD 8GB SSD 64MB RAM SSHD provides high capacity with high speed for files that are frequently accessed. Since this laptop comes with 16GB of RAM, I locked system files and drivers in memory and turned off paging.

Reply to So installed VS on the wrong drive... in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I don't understand your rant. I have checked and I only have one uninstaller which presumably would uninstall exactly what was installed. Since I haven't tried to uninstall VS2012, I can't verify that there is a problem that no one else apparently has had or there would have been plenty of flak on the Microsoft forums. I fail to see how your mistake installing VS2012 on the "wrong" drive should be blamed upon Microsoft.

Reply to What movie do you think best predicts the future? in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

Although technically not a movie, I think "Max Headroom" typifies my expectations for the future.

Reply to What movie do you think best predicts the future? in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="9" id="3422484"] It's a Wonderful Life. I like to put my hopes for the future in reality and not fantasy. [/quote] You mean hope in mythological deities, angels and alternate futures?

Reply to 25 things I learned in my quest to get all the guns in Humor WinCustomize Forums

It's not legal to wave a loaded handgun out the window of a car? I guess I will have to keep the window rolled up and keep my handgun in its holster.

Reply to I'm Tired of this Password Thing in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The head of the software department for which I worked once required all software engineers to change our passwords. If we did not, she would forcibly change our password to "somethinglongandobnoxious".

Reply to PLEASE FIX WC !! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="3" id="3395410"] relevant as the carrying capacity of an African Swallow....[/quote] Is that a Saharan or Sub-Saharan swallow?

Reply to PLEASE FIX WC !! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Your credibility really suffers when you don't know the difference between "no" and "know" or "to" and "too". I won't even discuss your use of punctuation, capitalization or sentence structure.