Jafo

Jafo

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Reply to Returning to Start10 in Start Menu Products WinCustomize Forums

Real [original] OS Customizing simply had an entire replacement of the OS Shell [there were many] and Explorer.exe simply was never loaded at all. There was no reverse engineering of anything....you just had someone like LoneRunnr code Litestep from 'scratch' and configure it to be a text-edit for anyone to design their own interfaces. Stardock's software was designed specifically to work with Microsoft's Shell and was entirely legitimate being formal 'Partners' with MS.

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Reply to Windows 10 VS 11 In 'System Compatibility Matrix in Object Desktop JoeUser Forums

[quote who="MADBIKER1960" reply="2" id="3924175"] One other thing off topic the purchase price in my opinion should be for life, not just a year. [/quote] Object Desktop is Stardock's Subscription Service to their software. It is not a one-off purchase by definition. The current [new] process is that your on-going subscription enables access to all the listed programs and any others that may evolve/change within that subscription time. In the same manner

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Reply to Stardock Announces Fences 5 in Fences News WinCustomize Forums

randyschad ...untick and retick each of those options in reply #107 to be sure they're actually set. A current OD Subscription should show "Fences 5" in the list below the version installed. Example...I'm still on Windows 7 on this machine...so haven't seen an urgency to update the Fences ver on it...so I'm running 3.1.3.3 but Fences 5 is available in my list....;)

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Reply to Stardock Announces Fences 5 in Fences News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="113" id="3913455"] Quoting TominiCZ, reply 111 Let's discuss openly and respectfully... I highly doubt you are capable. I left the determination of what to do with the antagonistic and insulting comments to Sean as it's his thread. My response wou

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Reply to Unable to update Start 11 v1.5 to Start 11. v2 in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

You have no need to change from one version to a newer one. If, however you change your OS to a different version you might need to also update any software you want to use on that new OS. This is entirely your choice, no-one is forcing you to buy a different version of anything. Example... I am still using Windows 7 as my primary OS. I don't even have Stardock's 'Start 10 or 11' on this particular machine at all. Similarly I have remained using

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Reply to February 2024 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The issue with "ThemeUX" and its origins is it came from reverse-engineering of Microsoft Code which is and has always been in breach of Microsoft's EULA. Clearly its use is sufficiently low-key that MS has not acted to enforce their restrictions most likely because it's simply valueless. All that said, this is not the thread for a discussion of the legalities of an alternate system. It is for the showing of 'what is on your desktop'. Let's move on.

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Reply to Will there ever be a solution to Fences running so slow?!!? in Fences WinCustomize Forums

Generally those are about a different issue caused by Microsoft forcing third party programs to load after the boot sequence has completed...so Fences was forced to wait and thus forced to not show the desktop icons at the time when the normal sequence would. The "impression" was the boot sequence was slowed...and yes it was... by 0.2 of a second. The only difference was the icons showed later in the sequence. This is not the same 'slow down' you are seeing. Wh

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Reply to FauxS-TOON Suite by Paul Boyer Legendary Design for kids in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

Anything other than those active links no longer exists on the site and thus cannot be obtained. All works uploaded by a skinner/artist are their sole property and can be available or permanently removed as they see fit. The icons and wall etc are no longer available so cannot be downloaded. Anyone who may already have them is forbidden to pass them on to someone else as that is breach of copyright. All commercial links will not function as the commercial oppor

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Reply to 2024 Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Matchbook" reply="41" id="3918677"] So my rank just.. stays the same? Like an "unpromotion" of some kind. lol [/quote] Not quite..."Matchbook" has had a promotion....I was there....;)

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Reply to 2024 Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Matchbook" reply="38" id="3918636"] Aw. hehe. But wasn't I made Journeyman ten+ years ago? (old name, causticfx) [/quote] Yes...but you're not getting 8 dots after your name....so there...;)

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Reply to 2024 Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="30" id="3918534"] Why work so hard to become a Master only to find that selling skins is no longer a thing. [/quote] Quite possibly for the same reasons I worked so hard to become a Master...at a time when there WAS NO commercial option to sell skins on Wincustomize.com [or any other skinning site that existed at the time]. It might be nice to NOT rain on people's parades actually in the thread announcing/recognizing their

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Reply to They're at it again in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="5" id="3918482"] Jafo's on W7 because 0Patch protects him better than MS can. [/quote] More reasons than that...eg potential issues activating FSX without having to start from scratch with purchase of a new copy via Steam. When you have around 15 years invested into a flight sim whose installation is 218gig...with the odd Tb or 2 of backups and other aircraft graphics etc. It's just been nice to NOT wake up one morning only to discove

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Reply to 2024 Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="28" id="3918355"] Here's a bit of history that some still remember... https://forums.stardock.com/368986/page/1/#2440640 [/quote] Oh blimey....I'd forgotten that...;)

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Reply to 2024 Promotions in WinCustomize News Stardock Forums

[quote who="pelaird" reply="18" id="3918181"] Thanks for the nod Jafo. It's nice to be appreciated these days. [/quote] The "O" in 'Jafo' is for Observer.... ....and I drink Guiness....and its motto...."I like to watch" So nothing goes unnoticed ....;)

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Reply to Audio in Personal Computing Stardock.net Forums

You might want to check your 'sleep' settings. Possibly the computer thinks it's not being used and is turning 'bits' off....such as the hard drive [that has the music]...;)

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Reply to My Gallery Link Not Working in Help WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="pelaird" reply="18" id="3917177"] Most Browsers started marking HTTP websites as unsecure in 2018. Now, most are enforcing it. It could be as simple as the SSL/TLS certificate for that server being expired, and just needs to be renewed. [/quote] That will be the cause....the solution may be an issue due to all the site interlinking. Entertainingly....the Admin site is called '2007' ....so it's older than my underpants....;)

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2024 Promotions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Now....let's see if I got this right....[it's been a little while since the last formal post]. Long ago, in a Galaxy far, far away [March, 2001], Wincustomize.com was created. Slowly, evolving out of the Primordial Swamp there came Users. With the relentless March of Time there were Promotions. [People are promoted due to their involvement with the site and its Community, sometimes through artistic

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