TanKCR

whoo hoo the pigs are actually flying!

I think I saw some pigs on a runway, they were getting ready to take off!

[quote who="broderp" reply="11" id="3354444"] My issue sort of fixed itself. I simply rebooted, and all is well. Unfortunatly many of the dream files I like are not in the right format for Windows 8.....something about not having the proper codec for DVD playback. [/quote] broderp, I solved that problem by googling, and downloading a codec pack!

It is on a Surface Pro, so the DPI would be standard across all surface pro's. If I remember correctly they tweaked the config on Win8 for the Surface Pro's to make stuff more visible on the smaller screen.

I did as suggested and got my deskscapes working, kinda, whenever I apply them the end up in a box. I tried al the different settings, stretch, fit, all of them. Here is a screen shot. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7337/8716755571_3fa386f25c_h.jpg

Hey you could always install win7 over the top of it, lol

no problem, I just need to reinstall Modernmix as I had removed it.

I am also experiencing this. Do you want me to also run that utility?

Is there a way to tell modern mix to not interact with an app? For some reason it think chrome needs to be managed on my machine and its causing a weird window.

Hey all, not sure how many of you have surfaces or surface pro's, but I snagged a pro today and installed all of the win8 compatible stardock apps. Everything seems to work great except deskcapes8 no errors or anything, it just doesn't change my background. I will keep messing with it. I know that the RT is limited when it comes to installing non windows store apps; however I ran across an article that describes that someone has hacked the RT to make that available, if that is somethi

Hopefully this horse is dead, and pretty sure we beet it long after as well... [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e]

Thanks for the info. Just a shot in the dark

ha ha ha, stating the obvious is worth a thousand when a conversation is circling the drain!

Is there any future possibility for stardock apps to get portable installs? It would be nice to have portable installs of all the apps, throw em on your dropbox or thumbdrive and apply them to any machine you are working on. Though I looked through all the registry entries for Blinds and I imagine it would be pretty difficult to accomplish, but sure would be convenient!

TechNoWeb , I am not pissed, it is a matter of principal more than anything else. If a customer misunderstands a joke, or sarcastic remark that an employee makes and feels slighted, and or offended. The best approach is always to just apologize to said customer and move on. Instead what we got was a whole lot of people, several employees as well, defending the r

[quote who="Jafo" reply="88" id="3351863"] If it were purely 'Aussie' a response here would end up as 'fair suck of the sauce, me old china....you're scarin' the missus...' [/quote] Ha ha ha, I have no idea what that means but its sounds funny...

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="83" id="3351838"] As far as how people can behave on the forums -- these are our forums. There is no freedom of speech here. Someone's purchase of a product doesn't entitle them to be rude to us. And if someone upgrades to a new version of Windows, they don't automagically have programs work on the new OS. Talk to Microsoft about that, they're the ones who break stuff. All we can do is try our best to solve the problems Micros

[quote who="Jafo" reply="81" id="3351834"] TanKCR ...please read the preceeding 4 pages [on this thread alone] and you will see several references of exactly that. [/quote] Which is why I wrote [quote who="TanKCR" reply="80" id="3351827"] Wether you are sick of hearing this complaint or not, that would still be the proper aproach by a paid support agent to a paying customer!!![/quote] However, it matters not. No matter what I say or how I say it,

RedneckDude , love your work, great stuff! For me this must be that 1 time out of 10, because to be honest I am extremely frustrated. I understand that software releases are what they are, and not everyone is going to ever be fully happy with it. The conversation has long since devolved f

BTW, not to fracture the conversation, but Start8 is deffinately a nice add-on for a bad UI! At least now I can easily access my start menu without hacking the registry...

Wizard1956, perhaps, but typically the person with whom the sarcasm is directed feels slighted. It is important in any business to try and be professional when dealing with customers, and sarcasm, right or wrong, is ussually not considerred professional. I would be interested to hear Stardock's guidelines for handling customer situations, and what the company feels about sarcastic remarks towards customers.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="68" id="3351518"] Quoting TanKCR, reply 67After a bit of forum search I have noticed a trend in sarcastic remarks, which is horrible marketing. Forum searching is much like any searching....namely GIGO. A similar search would find prompt issue resolution...or unreasonable and abusive demands....people bending over backwards to assist others.... Anything can be 'found', but arguably the comment linked-to is actually a simple op

perhaps that is why your customers pay? It certainly isn't for your warm and friendly customer support! But I suppose with pretty much no competition you could be as slow as you want and we would still have to smile and say thank you...

Hasn't the Win 8 SDK been out since like September? Seriously, we pay money for subscriptions and kinda assume that we would have up to date software that works with our OS.