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Reply to Stardock Magazine: September 2016 feedback in Stardockians Stardock Forums

I find the new newsletter easy to read and informative about what's going on with Stardock. I've been around since the OS/2 days (I went to Windows 2000 to be able to synch my Palm Pilot in 2001). I would like to hear about your plans for Object Dock under Windows 10. I'm still using it, because it's the gateway to all of may databases (via a large tabbed dock) and I use the expanding dock to open and switch to new folders, e-mail, Firefox, and IE, and I li

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Reply to Multiplicity Pro in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

Multiplicity Pro does a truly excellent job of controlling my laptop in KVMA mode. I tried viewing and listening to a YouTube video and the performance is excellent, with no apparent latency or artifacts in either video or sound, even in full screen. Multiplicity KVM has allowed me to pull the hardware KVMS plug on the laptop, which is preparatory to moving it to the family room to run the TV. I'll control it using Multiplicity KVM from the man-cave, or an RF keyboard/mo

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Reply to Multiplicity KVM in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

You only need a second purchase if you are going to use two computers to master other computers. Use the same installation file to install on secondary computers as slaves, and do not validate them. The license allows you to do this on up to 5 other Windows computers to be operated as slaves. You can use them in KM or KVM mode.

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

The problem was the fresh OS installation that didn't have the current DirectX installed. I find this puzzling because I would have thought that Microsoft considered DirectX an optional but critical support technology on the order of Silverlight, perhaps more so because it integrates with firmware in most graphics cards these days. And, I'm quite diligent about running MS Update whenever I have a new installation and I want WU to check for old Microsoft distributable modul

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

One last tidbit. I looked at the desktop with the Rotating Earth dream in the Windows Personalization window, and find that it is a 23 X 22 pixel, 24-bit (color) bitmap. It's all black, so whatever selection I use in image fitting, Center, Fill, etc. I get an all-black screen. Pathname is C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Object Desktop\DeskScapes8\deskscapes.bmp I change the background color to white, and, viola, there is that l

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Silverlight won't un-install with IE 10 installed. I'm un-installing IE 10 and KB2670838 first. There is a security update for Silverlight, KB2847559, that must be un-installed to allow un-installation of Silverlight. I'm also going to un-install DeskScapes 8 and re-install it before I try again. It turns out that the Silverlight security update, KB2847669, appears on the WU list of updates, but on the screen of "Uniinstall an update" it does NOT appear

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

I forgot to mention that when I put in my first dream, DeskScapes asked "You must have an active desktop to use a dream. Would you like to convert to an active desktop?" I'm not getting this now. Barring other inputs before I get back this afternoon, I'll um-install IE 10, Silverlight, and KB2670838 all at the same time and try again. Anyone that has any idea whether the "active desktop" concept is relevant today, please chip in before mid-afternoon.

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Well, it seems to have something to do with Silverlight. I un-installed Silverlight and DeskScapes 8 did effect a change: to all deep black. I waited, but no image, still or moving, ever loaded. I booted, and got the same black desktop. I didn't have IE 10, at least in the last couple of boots, because WU installed IE 10 when I used it to re-install Silverlight. It's possible that IE 10 was uprooted when I uninstalled Silverlight. Re-insta

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

I'm running with the same WU-supported video drivers for my aging mid-line video card that I was before the crash. The card is old (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GTS) and the drivers are stable. It may be the codecs. I got a prompt this afternoon that I didn't have QuickTime installed. What codecs do we need? I have Nero 12 installed but I haven't started it yet. I did start it just now, and it didn't install any new codecs, it just wanted me to reg

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Reply to DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

I don't see a process called dwm.exe but I do have a Desktop Window Manager Session service, which was started. I re-started it. Still no joy. There is a Stardock Deskscapes 8 service that is started, too. Understand that I had this dream working for months on my old HD. I have a fresh system install on a new HD that won't take a dream. I have tried a couple of other dream files too and none of them will load as the desktop. I haven't tr

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DeskScapes 8 Not Setting Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

I've been using Stardock for ages and was using a DeskScape on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit when I had a disk crash. I have all my data back and a new, bigger, faster HD on a new SATA 3 card and everything is slicker than ever before. But when I finally found my old desktop, a dream of a rotating Earth with night lights, I can't get it to take on Windows 7. When I click on "Apply to my desktop" I get a flicker of the background image but that's it. I may hav

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Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX Stardock Forums

This whole thing sounds like a Stardock process interrogates a Weather.com web page whose format has changed. If so, the fix is to update the code in the Stardock process that reads the Weather.com page and supports the weather widgets.

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Keep Getting Zip Code Errors in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

I've been using Object Bar for some time and suddenly I start getting a popup every half hour or so with the label "Zip Error ..." and the message This doesn't appear to be a valid zip code. Please try again." I tracked it down to a weather widget that is included by default in the Stardock element, and the input that won't work anymore is the location for the weather widget. My zip code begins with 0 so I thought that a minor bug might have been introduced, particularly whe

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