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Reply to What skin are you running this very second? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Stardock MyColors Ohio State Buckeyes Desktop - It's football season and I'm alumni.

Reply to CompUSA Closing Up Over 50% of Stores in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

CompUSA made the same mistake that other retailers have made in the past. Forgetting what your core business was. The addition of DVD players, cameras, widescreen TVs and DVDs took up valuable space from their computer business. They were never going to be able to compete with Circuit City or Best Buy on home electronics, they needed to focus on improving their selection and pricing on the computer products. Especially since the margin on computer equipment was dropping and pricing has becom

Reply to Did you "get" Windows Vista? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I beta tested the RC1 and Beta 2 versions of Vista, but I still haven't found it necessary to run out and get the final release. The hardware concerns (I have a home-built AMD 3200+ Altlon based system with a Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card and 2 gigs of memory) and the cost of the upgrade (who is really gonna be satisfied with the Vista basic version? makes it something where I'll wait and see. I purchased Windows 95 the night it came out and quickly upgraded to 98 and 98SE when they came out.

Reply to Need Some Cool Icons? Grab Paul Boyer's Icon Trilogy! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm a big fan of Paul's work and have already purchased both the Orion and Utopia packs (so I guess it doesn't make sense to buy them again just to get the Apogee set...) By the way, what are the bonus packs that Carl mentioned?

Reply to Issues Installing Object Desktop in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Thanks for the feedback - I suspected that one of these programs might be the cause of my difficulties. I'll remove InCD and disable the firewall/antispyware apps and give it another try.

Issues Installing Object Desktop in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I'm trying to reinstall Object Desktop to my freshly formatted Windows XP-based system. Have been a user of OD since I purchased the program back in 2001 and am installing from a 2004 snapshot. Updated SD Central to latest version and am in process of installing latest updates of OD components. This morning downloaded several newer versions of various components (still have to update WindowBlinds to version 5 (using 4) and Windows FX). Upon reboot my system freezes and I can't access the sta

Reply to WB4.6 can't skin my Windows Start Menu, Windows Explorer, Logout Window - help please in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I'm assuming that you're installing the program fresh (not just copying the files from one machine to another) and that you're only installing WindowBlinds, not the entire Object Desktop suite of programs. If you're a registered user, you might want to check to see if your copy of the program is current and reinstall it from the backup copy of the installation files that you got from Stardock. (you did back up your install program didn't yo

Reply to Does Stardock "need" WinCustomize? in Community WinCustomize Forums

As a long time subscriber to Object Desktop and purchaser of several programs like CursorXP and ObjectDock Plus (as well as several of the exclusive themes and icon sets) I'm concerned that we might be biting off our nose to spite our face. How many potential users of Stardock products come here after seeing that "really cool skin" on so & so's machine? Limiting their access to the skins would only frustrate our ability to grow beyond our little comm

Reply to Apple Pages and academic work: Can it do it? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

NeoOffice is OpenOffice for Mac OS X - unfortunately it's based upon the 1.14 version (which is much slower than the 2.0 beta version, at least on my 600 mhz iBook.) If it's slow on your newer iBook then I hate to imagine what it would be like on mine. There's also a X11 version of OpenOffice that is based upon the 2.0 release, but it looks like it might be more trouble than it's worth to install. I'll probably wait until they come out w

Reply to Under The Skin: (Episode 2) Show Notes. in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

It might sound silly, but how about including a link to the show?

Reply to Which is your favourite cartoon character? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Looney Toon characters rule. (and the cartoons are classic - gotta watch) Disney characters are wimps. (and the cartoons don't age well...) Popeye was OK. Hanna-Barbera characters are weak. Jay Ward's characters are under-rated. (Rocky, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody) And the 2nd generation Warner Brothers products like the Animanicas and Pinky & the Brain are excellent. Really how can anyone NOT like Bugs Bunny?

Reply to The Register's take on Yahoo and Konfabulator in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I've been a long-time user of Object Desktop (I even have an OS/2 version...) and have watched the development of that package and DesktopX with great interest. However, I'm interested in seeing what Yahoo does with Konfabulator. Looking at recent history, pay-for-play applications have suffered when their capabilities are incorporated into an operating system or a "free" alternative comes along. Netscape Navigator vs. Internet Explorer (W

Reply to Linux vs XP vs the World vs Linux vs Bill Gates vs Linux vs in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Is there a reason so many users have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft? Most of us use Windows-based systems everyday and a lot of us seem to take glee in bashing the product everytime it burps. Lots of users don't have ANY problems with their setups - they've run their desktops for years with little or no problems. To me, the wonder is that Microsoft was able to produce an environment that works so well without being able to control the hardw

Reply to Download limit? in Community WinCustomize Forums

Actually it's a great bargain. The contributors to WinCustomize have created a number of excellent skins and wallpapers and having to pay for something is a small price to keep the site alive. Obviously you've found a lot of stuff that has captured your fancy and think it's worth downloading - is it too much to expect that it's worth something more? I've been a user of Stardock products from 2000 when I first purchased my copy of Object De

Reply to Apple sucks iBalls! in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

Over the years I've owned 33 systems (including 13 Macs and 15 PCs) so hopefully I'm not biased about my opinion. Apple DOES get away with stuff that Microsoft and other companies can't - they can release new products, eliminate support for older hardware and convince their user-base that paying for updates with "over 200 new features" every 18 months or so (when it's actually nothing more than a service pack) is innovative. My last mac was a

Reply to Media Players - What Do You Use and Why in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I don't really use any one media player - I hop around between Windows Media Player 10, Winamp 5 (gotta love a skinable app), JetAudio 6, and iTunes. What I don't use is anything that comes with my soundcards (they're usually crap). I've played around with most of the others, but I don't think that I've found one solution that fits every occasion. It's funny how the same music can sound different with using different players. <img src="http://images

Reply to FAQ: Why can't I download any more stuff? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Having purchased several products from Stardock, I have to think that the people who run Wincustomize are EXTREMELY good about allowing the community to have access to this great source of creativity. I don't know how I would stand running Windows 98, ME or XP without having Object Desktop and its applications available. It allows us to personalize our systems as we like and see what can be done with a little talent (and there's TONS of talent represented on this website... <img src="http://im

Reply to Blog: ObjectDock, pizza, and DesktopX 2.2 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I've purchased Object Desktop for OS/2, Object Desktop 2000, subscription updates each year, Cursor XP Plus, Toon XP suite, Orion Icons and a Object Desktop 2004 CD release. I understand where some people may think that Stardock is pushing it by looking to make a few extra bucks on ObjectDock Plus. I haven't tried it (yet) and will probably give it a look, but I don't feel like I'm missing a lot yet. There were a lot of programs that were floated out as part of OD over the past few yea

Reply to WindowBlinds 3.5A Expiration in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Put me down as another confused WindowBlinds user - I've just reinstalled a Norton Ghost copy of my harddisk and was shocked to see that my WindowBlinds wasn't working correctly - even when I installed it on a different machine - I was also afraid that I might have inadvertly gotten a virus - thank goodness that it wasn't as serious as I had thought. Now I've just got to download the updated files.

Reply to Object Desktop Upgrade-a-palooza! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Having been a subscriber to Object Desktop for the past two years I'm VERY happy to hear that they're finally releasing a new CD - between the program and WinCustomize, I can't imagine running a Windows-based system without the program. And since I've upgraded from Win98, WinME and now to WinXP, I'm hoping that adding Object Desktop will be even easier in the coming months. Downloading the updated versions can be a hassle when installing on a new system. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/imag

Reply to Sun to remove all free StarOffice downloads in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I''ve used StarOffice since it was available as a free download from Star Division and while it was a interesting alternative, it never replaced Microsoft Office on my PC - now with StarOffice vying for shelf space with Lotus SmartSuite and Corel''s WordPerfect Office, I don''t really think that it''s going to gain any significant marketshare. Unless they''ve improved the interface, it''s still clunky compared to the others and at $80 it''s not a whole lot cheaper (considering that you can find