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Reply to Here's another one for you - Sound Card problems in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

When you say re-install the soundcard, do you mean the drivers? When the CPU spikes can you bring up task manager and see which process is using the CPU? You might try installing the software that came with the soundcard and then once everything is working upgrade to the latest version. Sometimes the driver downloads for soundcards work best as an upgrade and can cause all kinds of havok when installed alone. At least that's been my experience with Sou

Reply to Featured Skins in Community WinCustomize Forums

Thank you for your confidence in the moderators Has nothing to do with the Moderators, I respect what all of the voluteers do to keep WC floating. My comments are directed only at the process. But hey, I'm no skinner so I could care less.

Reply to WB5 Trial Doesn't Load in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

256MB RAM How do you manage to use even XP with just 256MB of RAM.. It must be excruciatingly(sp?) slow!

Reply to Featured Skins in Community WinCustomize Forums

Why should it have anything to do with download count? I don't believe I said anywhere in my statement what it *should* be based on. I simply stated that I *thought* it *might* have something to do with download count. I realize it's not popular skin but I thought perhaps the suggestions the featured

Reply to Will not work in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I'm not sure what I missed here, but I'm glad it's working or worked or whatever none the less..

Reply to System Info in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Not sure exactly what you're going for but you can always use WMI to get the system info you're looking for.

Reply to Featured Skins in Community WinCustomize Forums

It does seem rather random but I would think it has at least something to do with download count..

Reply to ExtremeTech Reviews WindowBlinds 5 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

If I wasn't so lazy, I'd register an tell these people OD is a pretty worthwhile thing to have. I'm right there with ya but I'm not sure I could think of a nice way to disagree with the techtards that obviously just skimmed through the review and looked at the less than stellar screenshots and the one

Reply to Will not work in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

uhhh, hate to be so obvious but, what did you download? What doesn't work? What problems are you having? You'll need to give a lot more information if you expect anyone to be able to help you out..

Reply to What about us Widescreen users?... in Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Well, most of the artists here don't have a monitor that would allow them to design their walls in that aspect ratio. Your best bet is something like http://www.digitalblasphemy.com, he offers most of his walls in widescreen resolutions, at least to members. Good Luck!

Reply to Win XP Hangs and Blue Screens While using WB5 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

maybe it is related to mem more then 1 gig? Nah, I have 2GB of RAM and I've not had any problems with WB. I fully believe that this problem with the 660 could be caused by drivers as I have had a problem with PSP X not running when I installed any of the 8x.xx series drivers from NVidia, and the probl

Reply to CursorXP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Are you working with .CursorXP files? Have you tried to manually copy the files into the Cursor XP folder? Are the available themes just not showing up in the drop-down on the property page in your mouse properties? Do the default themes show up?

Reply to WB5 causes WinAVI products to AV? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Well, seeing as they don't have any screenshots on their homepage, I'm going to guess that this is caused by the application drawing its own windows. Most applications that have custom painted UI's have this type of problem. It may be something that SD will add as a default exclusion in the future or you may just need to manually add it as long as you continue to use WB and WinAVI.. I've had this happen to a couple applications in the past and it's nic

Reply to ObjectDock in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I agree wholeheartedly.. It's sure starting to feel like SD has decided that those of us buying the customization software and providing 7/8ths of SD's income aren't worth the updates and support we used to enjoy.. Who knows maybe we were spoiled by the stellar support we used to get!

Reply to Is IconPackager SD Software? in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Wow, talk about your useless Technical Support response.. I hope that response is not indicative of where SD support is heading. I've used SD software for quite some time and while I'm not the artistic type by any stretch of the imagination (being colorblind for starters) but if I ever got a response like that from a support person I would stop buying ANY software the publisher made. I understand that they aren't there to teach people how to use the so

Reply to Help with Automation in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

For both there has to be a public API available that can be interacted with via a scripting language. Typically these are COM objects that are registered with your system. I know there's an API to control the playback of music through iTunes because there's an iTunes player on here (I think) but I'm not sure if the ability to eject your iPod is exposed. Same with disabling the scanner. If there's no public API available you'd have to write an applicati

Reply to Issue with Avafind in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

When you add an app to the PerApp list you have to restart Windows before it will actually be ignored. Not sure if you've already rebooted but thought I'd mention that..

Reply to Petition for the continuation of RightClick in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

If you haven't already, go to joeUser and read the thread Brad posted about the new game they are working on. Apparently they are in major crunch mode and almost everyone in the company is working on the game i.e. not working on their other products. I'm of the mindset that this is OK, for *a very limited time*, as Brad points out SD is making 7/8ths of its profit from Windows customization software which to me means they should be focusing on the prod

Reply to Does Stardock do anything to protect its products? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Software suffers from the same problem as music. All the locks and tricks in the book will only keep the honest people honest, and while better locks will keep the less motivated theifs from trying to steal something, there's nothing that can be done to keep the motivated people with nothing but time to kill from cracking just about anything. I think WB has taken a step forward in terms of the steps it takes to thwart the theives but it won't stop ever

Reply to Windows 2003? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Directly from this (https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb5/) page on the stardock site: OS Compatibility: Windows XP and Windows Vista (when available). Windows 2000, ME, 98 users can use WindowBlinds Classic (v4.6).

Reply to Treo 650 themes in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

check out the various launchers on PalmGear (http://www.palmgear.com).. Most of them support skinning and many have icon packs and other goodies you can use to change the look of your Treo. I personally use MegaLauncher. It doesn't have as many skins as say LauncherX but I like the way it allows me to organize my apps.. Much better than the default Palm launcher.

Reply to How do I make WindowBlinds NOT load at startup? in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

If you are using XP you can go to the Appearance tab and select the Windows Classic style or the Default XP style and WB will no longer load. If you want to disable WB on a boot by boot basis you can hold down the Ctrl key while windows loads to keep WB from loading for that boot only.

Reply to Vista Windowblinds in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I believe MS got their panties in a wad over Kol's excellent Vista skin and asked him to remove it from the site, and he did. So, I do not believe it is available for download any longer. If you can get in touch with Kol he may be willing to send it to you, but chances are you can't get it anymore.

Reply to WB 5 with AND64 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I'm using an AMD 64 X2 4600+ and it works perfectly here.. I have 2 GB of ram and a GF 7800 GTX vid card if that makes any difference. I've never had any problems with the new versions of WB. Other than an app that would crash if it was skinned but that has been fixed.

Reply to Screensaver as Wallpaper? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Try this: http://www.geisswerks.com/drempels/ Just a word of caution though, it is very processor intensive. Oh, and don't change the priority on it cause you'll never get your system to respond again if you set it too high. Have fun!