CountryYokel

CountryYokel

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Do I keep skinning XP when Windows 7 arrives? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

With the launch date of Windows 7 just around the corner do I keep on making WindowBlinds for XP? I am hoping to get Windows 7 sometime in the near future, as finances allow, so do I add it to my dual boot XP/ Vista computer, something which I have read on these forum does not work too well, or do I replace the XP partition with Windows 7. I understand that many users of XP who have been reluctant to upgrade to Vista are waiting for 7 to change, (I think I have been one

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Reply to Messing around... in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Unlike jazzymir, (reply #6) I start my blinds with the window frames, takes me a couple days sometimes playing around before I get what I am looking for, but all rejects exit my computer via the recycle bin. I use Gimp, (yes I know I am cheapskate!).

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Explorer background in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

One of the fascinating things about skinning is its ability to throw up a challenge, even if something has worked in all the window blinds that you had done, all of a sudden something strange happens. My problem is when I insert a taskbar group menu background image, it also inserts itself as the Explorer background image. I know I can work around this by making the background image very large, so that there is no tiling affect in the Explorer background, but I did not want them

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Reply to Hey Yall, let's see some pitchers of yer house!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Not a lot of snow in sunny Cornwall, Doc, when we do get some it is a novelty,although we did get some this year, we have had a cold winter, I blame global warming. Thank you, mrs starkers,we were lucky to get this place, we were in our last credit crunch, 1995, when I gave up the farm, there was a lot of property for sale at the time, but not many at the going rate, negative equity being the problem, but the people who lived here before us were keen to move so had this place on the m

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Reply to Why I am not a good Community member. in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote]That's great news CY! It sounds like you have a wonderful, loving family who support you[/quote] That's very true, when we said for better or for worse, 38 years ago, I do not think my wife could have imagined there was going to be so much "worse", but I am very thankful that she was true to her word, and she, and my two daughters, have done a great job looking after me these last 16 years. [quote]I too am in the same boat as you, I have gone beyond stir crazy in these

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Reply to Hey Yall, let's see some pitchers of yer house!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This is where I used to live before I retired, a rented farm. [URL=http://img40.imageshack.us/my.php?image=home1b.jpg][IMG]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7683/home1b.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img40/home1b.jpg/1/][IMG]http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/home1b.jpg/1/w1280.png[/IMG][/URL] This is where I live now. [URL=http://img199.imageshack.us/my.php?image=home2.jpg][IMG]http://img199.imageshack.us/img

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