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Crash to Desktop from Trade Screen in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well, the headline says it. After a two week absence, I updated to 1.10[b3].015 and continued my first Metaverse game. I had about 10 crashes to the desktop in a few hours - all while clicking on items in the trade screen. Must be a new bug, in 1.0x I never had this problem.

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Reply to KeepSafe released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Adding the Diff-Mode will definately make me buy the programm! One little suggestion: The systray Icon is red and because of that I always instinctively think it is deactivated and needs my attention. Changing the color to green or hiding it altogether would be appreciated

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Something completely different: Powerpoint template in Requests WinCustomize Forums

Are you tired yet of the always-the-same ugly graphics from powerpoint(could be openoffice.org or similar too of course) presentations? All the skinners here prove that things do not need to be ugly, unfortunately no one has yet choosen to "skin" a powerpoint presentation. Well it's not so much skinning a presentation than providing a powerpoint template with nice graphics for text boxes, arrows, bullets and the like. Here are some examples

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Reply to The Spyware Revolution! in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

Most Spyware infects the Computer through Internet Explorer. So it is a good idea to use an alternative browser to prevent the infection in the first place. I surf with Firefox and occasional checks with Adaware never find any spyware on my machine.

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Reply to Objects vs. Widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

But that's not the point. The good Thing about widgets is, that you can still load them into DesktopX, exactly like Object. It is just a different file format and the widget format has the bonus of beeing able to start without DesktopX. You don't have to give anything up if all would be in the widget format, it would just simplify the use of DesktopX.

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Reply to Icon X - A User's View in Icons WinCustomize Forums

There is one bug with setting labels to use a bold font. On a regular font, the text is diplayed correctly and breaks to a second line, but if you turn on bold fonts, the text is not completely visible any more, but gets dotted (...) instead of starting a new line to compensate for the bigger width. You can see that in the .jpg example in the article above. Other than that, IconX is great (and would be perfect, if you could apply the properties on

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Objects vs. Widgets in DesktopX JoeUser Forums

I have a suggestion for future DesktopX versions: Get rid of the distinction between Objects and Widgets. From a user point of view, they are the same and it is just annoying having to look at two different lists when searching for that nice object/wiget. Just convert all .dxpacks to widgets(.exe) and remove the possibility to save and load objects. That would make DesktopX much more userfriendly.

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Reply to Welcome to WinCustomize 2005! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Trying to access https://www.wincustomize.com/ (without the 'www.') results in an error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an i

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Reply to Working on The Natural Desktop in DesktopX JoeUser Forums

Are all the desktop wallpapers rendered scenes? That is the only thing that prevented me from buying it, when I saw the screenshots. When I want a natural desktop, it is strange for me to look at artificially generated scenes. If there was a version with images like the ones from http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ , you would have a new customer

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Reply to DesktopX 2.21 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Hey, wasn't there another news item on top of that an hour ago? Something about WinXP SP2 having problems with Bootskin during upgrade? I could swear, that I saw this at work and that I even posted in it.

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