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Fellow Stargazers, I have been waiting for Squadron 42 for over 7 years! LOL! I hope Mark Hamill got paid for his part. But this message is about Microsoft's Windows 10 EUS. They said it was going to cost $30 for an extended year. I would have paid more, just to shut up the fanboys telling me how out of date I was going to be, but guess what? I signed up and didn't pay a dime for the service. I think for the short term Microsoft is learning a lesson, "Not everybody is going to be push

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DrJBHL, I'm afraid my adjectives, verbs and nouns would have exploded the terms here after exploring that read. Holy Cow! I thought Eliquis was bad at $569 for a months supply of 60 pills. I called Bristol Meyers-Squibb and asked, "Why make a drug that can save peoples lives, then make it so expensive, it saves few lives?" Well me need to yada, yada, yada! All crap. Hospitals are getting worse. I've learned not to engage anyone that walks into the room unless they are my direct doctor

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Jafo, Hello again. Your comments reminded so much of what Chris Rock said during one of his routines, "They ain't never gonna cure cancer, because there's no money in the 'cure', only in the 'come back!" I recently spent a week in a hospital. I felt like a piece of meat every body wanted a piece of me! The worst part was I couldn't get a strait answer out of anyone. I was a cash cow! The same with these big software company's. They need us to keep buying year after year after yea

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Well Basj It has happened before and again last night. I was posting a reply and the system shut down, cut me off, obviously something went south. Post lost. Wanted to thank you for considering my terms which compared to the stuff I see my grand kids using on TikTok, WeChat, X, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram mild, but might offend a few. Sometimes my frustration gets the best of me because I dislike so much being a "beta" tester without pay for some of these software companies. Espe

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Well, i don't usually mess with stuff once it's working, but I had occasion to check out a few settings, and when I opened my current program "Aero 11" was missing from my WindowBlinds 11 configuration page replaced by some Microsoft Default theme??? What the f**k! Ya turn your back for a moment and all hell breaks loose! Now I wouldn't mind that so much except the "Aero 11" theme is not listed at all and that really pissed me off. and since the Style and research functions still leav

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Well fellow StarGazers, given enough time, the Internet will reveal all her secrets. I solved my problem. A couple of settings had to be made in Aero11, which was preventing "dark mode" from starting, (Mr. SimplexDesigns you one hell of a programmer), and the AutodarkMode program, which allowed me to turn on dark or light depending on what I am doing completed the fix. I went through a few programs, but found one that wouldn't screw up Aero11. Nice to look at a dark screen, it really saves yo

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Howdy folks, this isn't a reply to my past post, but a new inquiry. (I try not to be a pest!), but maybe SimplexDesigns knows the answer. Would there be any reason "Areo 11", would prevent "Windows Explorer" from going into "dark mode?" I hate the glaring white screen of Win10. I have read most of the remedies for getting "explorer" into dark mode including settings in the registry. Of course their are a 100 guru's all giving the same advice, but I have yet to find a solution. I have the very

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Well SD, I've looked at a lot of stuff. OldNewExplorer, UltraUXThemePatcher, StartIsBack, WindowBorder Winaero, MajorGeeks Registry Tweaks, WinTools and Skin Studio. It seems there are so many versions of Windows 10, people respond with, "The panel shown in this link is not present in my Windows 10?" Or you get the registry suggestions, "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics", or "-15*desired height in pixels (Example: 20px = -15*20 = -300)". I've decided to live with the

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Thanks SD, will check some of the "links." Did I tell you I hate Windows 10. LOL! Through your Aero 11, I was able to change the color of my Title Bar Text. I tired "Winareo Tweak" to change the font size...didn't work. Winaero was able to change the scroll bar size and I changed my icon spacing in the registry. Guess what, the next day, Windows 10 had its way with me and undid the changes. (ROFLMAO!) Re-did them and they seem to be holding. Now I'm trying to find a way to increase the font s

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You Sir are worth your weight in "gold-pressed latinum!" Just about every week I read about folks struggling with the color settings which MS has decided to bury in the Windows 10 registry for all the novices to go into and possibly "brick" their computers because they don't know any better. I struggle for a while myself and was amazed how the OS would just ignore and sometimes reverse changes I had made "in the freaking registry!? Anyway, I did a deep exploration of Windows Blind and my favo

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SimplexDesign, just thought I'd give you an update. At 150% dpi, it seems Win10 is not screwing around with your theme here. Just briefly a few times during start up the distortion would return then disappear. Since my installation is only a few months old, maybe someone is reading these forums and making some changes. The 150% dpi hold happened just after there were two huge Windows updates. Going between 100 and 150 (my recommended), no longer causes the menu look as in my first post. Getti

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To SimplexDesign, I started playing around with the resolution because 100% dpi at 1920x1080 was killing my eyesight. I set it back to 150% and wonder of all wonders. Except for things being bigger, your Aero11 theme remained without the previous distortion! Did you push down an upgrade? I don't know what happened, but I'm as happy as a pig in mud right now, but I'll see what happens after a couple of re-boots. In the mean time, this from one of the "tech" guys I follow, interesting

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Oh yeah...knew it was big.

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LOL! I bet it wasn't. Don't know to many folks would enjoy eating a meal with a pressure suit on at 15,000. LOL! It's fast. But, even as fast as an F-35 is for example, it can't out run a Soviet s400 which can do 11,000 mph, mach 14. My hats off to the men and woman who strap on an F-35, or any other fighter. They are extraordinary souls. I loved the TopGun movies, but, some of the crap that Maverick pulled, would not be tolerated in real life, especially ignoring a senior officers command. I

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Yes Jafo, it's funny how the industry convinces folks that...oh that's old technology and not good any more. When we all know that's not quite true and a bunch of bull. What folks need to do is be aware. As far as I'm concerned MS made four great OS's. Windows98se (after they took off their training wheels), Windows 2000Pro, Windows XP Pro, and Windows 7. All the rest were basically "money grabs!" Windows 10 is just barely tolerable, but has given a lot of guys a second very artistic career.

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pelaird, LOL! I had to laugh, every time folks would come over and see me running that program on a MS OS’s they go, “How’d you do that?” Then they’d giggle when they saw save to “cassette”. Then say why not just save to your hard drive? And I’d tell ‘em, back in the day, a cassette was all there was, until floppy disk came around at $599 apiece for 100kb of storage. Windows 10 & 11 will recognize 3.5 to 5.25 floppy (USB)&helli

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LOL! I don't know what the hell he was thinking! But, when you get the Banking Commission, Police Dept. and the FBI involved...whew! They reviewed my code to see how I had gotten so many banking variables accounted for like fees and account charges. Maybe they thought I was in on the take. LOL! (not funny). Except for the money it wasn't that big a deal for me as the "checking account" was a semi-small part of my program. But, you don't want to have the FBI on your ass! Two screen shots in ca

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THIS IS A RE-REPLY AS IT SEEMS THE 20 APRIL REPLY WAS LOST??? Thank you SimplexDesigns, (maybe one day I'll know your name, or at least an initial) Setting the dpi to 100% was the magic that worked. Two months ago if someone had ask me about “skins” and “themes”, I wouldn’t know what the heck they were talking about! Sort of reminded me of my early days of programming and a program I was writing kept crashing during testing an

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I see I am among the "elite", how refreshing! Sorry about the image, forgot to down scale it! Looking at "Jafo's" images, I may never put the covers back on the case. LOL! It's a Fractal Design. I see someone likes either flight or space sims. I go all the way back to the first Wing Commander's. Been waiting for Squadron 42 for "ever!" Just bought a Trustmaster T.16000, changed my mind about spending $500 on a Warthog. Special thanks to the folks from SimplexDesigns for responding. Oh, did tr

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Well, I do want to thank all the early responders for their suggestions. But after spending almost 30 years in the IT profession at companies like IBM, NEC, Digital, Apple, GE Capital IT, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and forming my own, "Pulse Software" company back in the day, I've come to realize if you look under the covers you find the basic problem. I want what I want! LOL! I have never bought a big desktop system, if I need one I built it. The company's I worked for supplied the laptops, whi

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Thanks "basj" & brad_sams", I realize from my early days of programming (never had time to get to c++), that memory locations can get stomped on by graphic intensive utilities, that's why I was looking for an intensity setting in the Aero 11 theme that would even out the tones in the title bar. Like I mentioned I have only downloaded 7 themes as most are way more than I want, and Aero 11 is the only theme that causes this issue. It is also the only one I found that can "glass" the title b

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Hello Folks, I am trying to understand why my favorite Windows Blind theme, Aero 11 by Simplex Designs is screwing up my "explorer" title bars on some applications. Open Shell's T-Clock gets hit the worse. I have about 7 themes I tired and none cause the shading or rounding of the buttons as Aero 11. I am not naive enough to know many of the "graphically" based programs aren't all trying to hit the same memory locations. Since Aero 11 is one of the few themes that really pushes transparency (