Stephen Lee-Woolf

Accessing Forums in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

I am having difficulties in gaining access to the Forums through an external Newsreader client. I can get in through the web to forums.stardock.com but, when I try with my newsreader program to connect to news.stardock.com I get an error claiming that the connection has failed as login required. My client is passing the same credentials as are successfully used on the web connection, but they don't appear to be recognised. Can anyone suggest where I am going wrong? Thanks

Reply to Unable to open games while windows fx loaded? in WindowFX Stardock Forums

I'm having exactly the same problem on my machine which has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 video card with 256MN RAM and the latest drivers. None of the games I run will operate if WindowsFX is either running, or has been running, since the machine was rebooted (ie unloading the program is NOT enough). Adding application to the exclusion list does not work either. Games that are failing include: Tomb Raider Legend, Nexus The Jupiter Incident, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Halo, World Champio

The Cost of Skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I realise that this is likely to become a contentious thread, and will probably get me flamed, but ... here goes I am becoming concerned at the increasing number of skins (or Icons or Cursors) that are only available after paying a free. The OD ethos has always been that you pay for the system and a worldwide band of dedicated users are sufficiently motivated to produce the skins that go with it. This has always worked well. I fully accept that a lot of work goes into producing