For this survey to be valid, the available responses should be ... a. Yes b. No, but I plan to c. No, and I don't plan to As it stands, you have 2 options for the 'yes' camp and only 1 for the 'no'. This will tend to bias the results in favour of the new monstrosity.
Fair point about memory, but there are some games that get interrupted by notification of an incoming EMail, for instance. In my case I am working with a laptop so installing additional memory is neither cheap nor easy!
Depends what you use your computer for. For example, I play games from time to time and have one screen that I always use for that purpose. Dexpot is set so that when I enter that desktop all extraneous apps running in the systray that I don't need at that time (mail checkers, memory optimisers, download managers etc) are shut down to recover memory for the game and these are then reloaded automatically when I revert to one of the other desktops. The potential, as they say, is
Stardock's offering isn't bad, but it doesn't have anything like the flexibility of Dexpot (suh as the ability to run specific apps on entry and/or exit to/from particular desktops for instance)
Currently using version 2.01.014 of CursorFX Plus and have just started usinng virtual desktops (currently Dexpot 1.4, but have also tried several others). The problem I am facing is that as soon as I switch from the primary desktop, the screen cursor disappears completely. The only way to get it back is to navigate (with the keyboard) to the mouse applet in Control panel and select a Windows scheme, at which point the cursor springs back into existence. This has forced to me
Couldn't agree more. I've been using 'Artifice' as my standard skin since it came out. I've tried several others since, but always come back to it after a day or two. :CONGRAT:
OK. I've done that. Thanks
I have just changed my Internet provider and the EMail under which my Stardock.net account , Object Desktop and various ancilliary applications are registered no longer exists. How do I go about changing all the registrations to a new address?
Rex Guess I'll just have to live without WindowFX for the time being. I suspect that suitable drivers for my laptop are unlikely to emerge as the company that produced the machine has been taken over and probably won't be actively developing for older machines. Thanks for your help. Steve
I have tried the new drivers, with mixed results. The new drivers do allow me to run games with WindowsFX also loaded, but the WFX transitions are too jerky to be usable. More importantly are problems restoring screen resolution after exiting a game. The laptop has a 17 inch widescreen panel built-in that I run at maximum resolution of 1680x1050 32bit. When exiting a game resolution is reset to only 1400x1050. Looking at display properties the 1400x1050 is the maxiumu available under th
I have always been under the impression that video drivers, at least as far as laptop machines are concerned, are very specific to the particular machine and are, therefore, normally produced by the computer manufacturer rather than the video card producer. Is this understanding incorrect? I have tried so-called mobility driver updates before with no success, but I will give it another try - I can always roll back to the current versions I guess. Thanks for the link.
OK. Spec as follows .. OS: WIndows XP Professional SP2 fully patched Machine: AJP Laptop with 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Processor and 1GB RAM. ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 256 MB on-board RAM. Soundblaster-compatible soundcard.
Using a laptop fitted with an ATI mobility Radeon 9700 - the drivers are the originals, but I don't think that updates have ever been released. Drivers have never given a problem before - even on the most demanding of visual apps.
I have just started using WindowFX and have noticed that none of the games I use that require Directx will run any more. DxDiag indicates that they are several problems with the video graphics functions. If I unload WindowFX before running, say, Tomb Raider Anniversary, everything is fine. Reload WindowFX and it stops again. Anyone else have this problem? :SNIFF!: :SNIFF!:
It would be really useful if you could specify the substyle of a skin to be used when a skin is randomly selected.. I use several skins that have a normal and compact style.but WB always selects compact when choosing a skin from the random list.
Choosing the best 10 is fairly easy - there are only about 15 or 20 that O actually use. The best are (in alphabetical order only) Azenis2 Antares Cabal Cyclops Diamond DogmaX4 FausX-TOON Parsec StealthOS ThunderStorm Most other skins are either trying to make a machine look as if it is running a different OS (Mac or Vista) - something that seems to me to be utterly pointless, or they are too 'clever' . As has been said here before, in order
Just to confuse the issue, OB says I'm running version 1.90 (Build 537u) (beta version), whilst SD says I have version 2.10f[b].011. ???????
Does anyone know if it is possible to display an icon next to a menu item that calls a submenu? There doesn't appear to be any way to achieve this in version 1.9
I have informed Kaspersky of the problem, and have just received an E-Mail from them confirming that the false positive will be fixed in the next updates. Given the high rate of updates issued, I suspect the problem will be eliminated within hours.
ZA uses Kaspersky. It's a false positive. Update your definitions. Yes it does - but only from Version 7 onwards (which has only been released in the last 2-3 months. The original post did not specify the version used. Definitions ARE up to date!
Windows XP Professional SP2 with all subsequent fixes/patches Trojan reported as: Trojan.Win32.Agent.es (aka Vernet by McAfee)
Maybe not, but my installation of Kaspersky 7.0 just reported the same thing. Have been forced to uninstall WindowBlinds just to get the system to boot up properly!
Got a really strange problem here. Normally I use Azensis2 as my primary skin with 3 or 4 per application settings that use others. When I shut down my machine last night all was working fine and no problems had shown up. On rebooting this morning, however, something very odd had occurred. Firstly the WB icon had disappeared from my system tray. Secondly my primary skin had been changed to VistaAero and all my per application settings, whilst still valid and visible, were being ignored wi
Looks like it already is! I have managed to connect my Newsreader to it. Looks like Neil is right - there aren't many recent posts on it. I was hoping that it would be kept synchronised with the forums so it wouldn't matter which way users wanted the system to work.
ON the web I am accessing the forums on the STARDOCK site (not Wincustomize) and I am attempting to use the same username/password when connecting to the Stardock news server via the external client. I am not using Wincustomize credentials at all on this.
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