Phoon

Phoon

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Chrome and Speed Dial Thumbnails Issue - Resolution in Internet WinCustomize Forums

A bit of information for you to aid in your troubleshooting (if needed). ISSUE: Chrome Browser using either FVD Speed Dial, or Speed Dial 2 (perhaps more) your thumbnails become skewed and distorted upon refreshing them. SOLUTION: After having spent the last 2 days sobbing uncontrollably over my keyboard trying to find a solution for this problem I happened upon a thread somewhere that solved it. Don't waste your time uninstalling apps, checking video drive

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Reply to Stardock 20 year anniversary series in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Seilore" reply="27" id="3336261"]I'm sure it would make for an interesting read. I'll look forward to it. On another note it would be nice to eventually see some information on a time table for a possible Galactic Civilizations 3[/quote] One of these things is not like the other... c'mon, don't try to hijack the thread like that. The topic had NOTHING to do with a time table for any product at all.

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Reply to Stardock 20 year anniversary series in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I think you should dictate, or have some voice conversations with Po and then let him write it. He is a natural writer (among numerous other talents from what I've seen ). With his wit and your recap of the facts it would be a total success that would go down in history as a classic.

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Reply to Run Modern (Metro) apps in a window on your Windows 8 desktop with ModernMix™ Beta now available! in Press Releases (WC) WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="30" id="3328085"]No, apparently they ARE really closed but have what amounts to 'place holders' for 'recently open apps'...it's a Win 8 thing...[/quote] Well that is the most useless damn thing ever! However, you can close those little bastiges by right clicking on them and choosing close. !@#$%

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Reply to Run Modern (Metro) apps in a window on your Windows 8 desktop with ModernMix™ Beta now available! in Press Releases (WC) WinCustomize Forums

the apps don't close when I hit the close button on upper right corner. They stay running. They don't show as running when I alt-tab, nor do they appear on taskbar but if i move my mouse to upper left corner of the desktop it will show it still running. The only way to really close the app is to put it back in metro full screen and swipe down with mouse while holding left button.

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Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="369" id="3326007"]i make my living knowing how people use their computers. I have seen first hand people struggle with basic issues like this. Its not that windows 8 is different and one must get used to it. It's that it's demonstratively inferior at doing common tasks....... [/quote] Well, to be fair, I've not used Win8 on my work system. I just installed it Friday and will get it configured more on Monday. From there I c

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Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="356" id="3325814"]Another example of Windows 8 suck: I want a quick way to drag and drop a document into an email or onto a Skype (a Microsoft app) conversation from the Start screen. How do you do this? With Windows 7 (or with Start8) I type the name of the file and then drag and drop it. [/quote] Sure.. click the file explorer that is by default pinned to your taskbar. Type the file name in to the search box and drag it t

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Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="332" id="3325349"]You show me one game... that even on a 64 Bit OS uses more than 2 or 3 GB of RAM[/quote] Skyrim However I don't believe the game itself uses that but with it running, your system will use more than 2Gb. Correction: My system, from a fresh boot, will sit idle and use 2.3Gb. Sure I have some things that auto start but they aren't things that I want (or need) to turn off. Skyrim, in a low po

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Reply to WindowBlinds for Win8 - when? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="7" id="3323047"]Windows 8, despite some shortcomings (start menu)[/quote] Lets not turn this in to another half assed debate about Windows8 sux and doesn't suck. There are other threads already open here for that. Please tell me that Windowblinds8 is not going to be contingent upon having Start8 installed or have a substitute start menu embedded in it. As I've said before, I find Start8 to be nothing more than an unneces

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Reply to This is fair?? in Community WinCustomize Forums

you may THINK this isn't about politics. It's teetering on the razors edge of it though and I will bet that unless this thread is locked,... pronto, it is going to turn in to politics in the extreme. Frog says no politics on here... period. Talking about taxes is about as political as you can get..

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Reply to Decor8 1.01 is available for download now! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="2" id="3320305"]Phoon, I saw that question asked in IRC today. The answer was you can not change at the present time but they will look at including it.[/quote] Thanks Philly. Guess I'll turn that off then. Don't care for that format.

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Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="252" id="3319036"]If you are unlucky and have to stay with the new OS you can just spend several hundred € for new hardware, too. Now, that makes upgrading a really great idea. [/quote] and that is the hardware manufacturer's way of forcing you to buy new hardware. Not the fault of the OS manufacturer at all. I see it all the time with various software vendors that require Java. The assholes refuse to update their product to be ab

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Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="vStyler" reply="250" id="3318903"]Her camera wasnt supported neither was her printer..[/quote] and that is the same problem that plagued Vista. It was NOT the fault of the OS, but rather the manufacturer's failure to produce drivers.

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Reply to Lets face it Win 8 Sux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="210" id="3318267"]I installed 98 in VirtualBox[/quote] Gonna have to try that on VMWare. I've done DOS6.22, Win 3.x and Win95 in some but it's been a long time. (aka vmware 3.x days)

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