BluesStringer

Reply to HELP PLEASE... in New Users WinCustomize Forums

I just upgraded to Panda Platinum 2006 today. Latest ver. of WB was already installed. Same problems everyone else is having now. I wasn't able to get it to work until I uninstalled v.5 and restored v.4.68.xx, and of course everything worked fine then. I am here right now because I've installed/uninstalled at least five times and decided to look here for some help. Found the logoff/login suggestion here and that worked for me as well. Pain in the butt,

Reply to December Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Nevermind, my mistake.

Reply to December Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Project Onyx by Skinartistry.com. I can't believe they're giving this away for free! Great job SA. Everything but the DX and Colorpad skins comes from SA. DX is "Sferical2" by gef with minor mods and total recoloring by me. Colorpad is "Evil_Mind". I don't know who the author is. Found it recently while surfing skin sites and can't remember where I got it. It's not here at WC though. I just checked. Much thank

Reply to December Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's been a long time since I did this, so sorry if it doesn't show up. It's called "The Green & The Grey Of It" and all the author-info is in the SS library page. Here goes.....

Reply to Upgrading to windowblinds 5 in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I refrained from going with the beta versions until yesterday, the day before today's release of WB5. It gave me an error msg saying that I had to find some "DSN" driver, or something like that. Does anyone know how to fix this problem, or where to go to get the right drivers? EDITED: "DNS" to "DSN" Just tried it again and it's looking for "data sources" to point to, of which I have no earthly idea where to look. Says it has to ha

Reply to January Screenshots. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My wall, "Sporius," available here on WC. WB is "Gilden" made a bit more orange to go with the wall. Cursor is Copperdeck II. Can't recall the rest right at the moment, but would be glad to track 'em down if anyone asks.

Reply to New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I started using Firefox about 6 or 8 months ago. Wasn't real impressed with the pre-release, but the full release is working much better. I'm not a developer so maybe I'm sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong, but I found this easy tip on a political forum that I frequent and am just wondering if anyone thinks IE is anywhere near as simple to tweak for the common user. In any case, I made these changes and it works very well, especially

Reply to December Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hope this works. Basically gef's Tab-2 for DX with my own wall. I use Zion WB by WBSkinner and ported by DWatson. Oh, and Winamp is called "New-CLEAR" but the skin doesn't have any info on who authored it. [Message Edited]

Reply to DektopX Problems After System Recovery in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

Well, this will give anyone who ventures in here a king-sized giggle, but I figured out why I was having the problem with shortcuts not working. Pretty simple really. I had all but given up on ever getting my DX to work with menus again, so I put together some objects with IconX turned on. When I got that pretty much the way I wanted it, I opened "Configure DesktopX" to set it to start up automatically with Windows. I noticed another option right next to that, "By Default, Start Command on Singl

Reply to DektopX Problems After System Recovery in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

I did try that Snowman. I think I may have the problem close to solved now though in any case. I uninstalled again and installed the latest final version, instead of the beta, and I seem to have my menu functions back working properly. Still a couple of things not working quite right, but I'll play with it before I ask for anymore help. Thanks for the reply. Take care.

DektopX Problems After System Recovery in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

A couple of weeks ago I had to do a complete System Recovery. My DX was working fine, I just had some unrepairable problems in the Windows system. After the recovery none of DX's shortcuts work anymore. The menu system won't show the menus, and the shortcuts that are visible without being attached to a menu don't work either. There is only one exception I've found to this circumstance. Airlock by gef still works. I've tried my personally-configured themes that I saved and downloaded fresh copies

Reply to June Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Boy DWatson, I sure will be glad when y'all get that Zion port and permissions done! That is some very cool stuff!

Reply to Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thank you Koasati. Seems to me there are a lot of things or issues which could be lectured about "how it works." Like maybe for instance, Presidents aren't Constitutionally charged with finding the cure for any disease, and none have ever even attempted it that I'm aware of. Yet Reagan is the only President to be constantly criticized for tending to his Constitutional duties rather than address a disease that, at the time, killed way less people up to that point than car accidents kill every yea

Reply to Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Being probably the biggest non-fan of Bill Clinton's to ever live, I hereby pledge that, when he dies, if I'm still alive, I will not call C-SPAN to tell the country how poorly I thought of him. I will not assign sinister intent to every issue I disagreed with him on. If given the chance, I will stand at attention and salute his casket in deference to the former Commander In Chief of the greatest country the world has ever known. Before Saturday, it never occurred to me to think about

Reply to June Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thank you Stockholm Syndrome, I think you're right. I missed it because of the completely different colors than I was used to seeing it in. It's by "the PUP" and it's one of the best weather objects I've used so far. Hey DWatson, what WB is that? Looks cool from here. BluesStringer

Reply to June Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Took me forever to remember how to post that! Anyway, it''''s a combination of Pinchecl''''s CP20 skins (WB, Sysmetrix, Wall and Rainy) and gef''''s Azul DX with some recoloring and minor mods by me. I couldn''''t find that weather object in the library here, so if the author sees this, please post or [email protected] me so I can give you credit. Cursor is Iben''''s Next by Iben. Winamp 5.xx is Hal''''s Eye by Metaskins, and the band playing is The Derek Trucks Band. Check

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Reply to IMPORTANT! Re: Wallpaper rejections in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm as calm as can be. I tried to clarify what I meant is all. I didn't say or imply that your input was stupid or worthless there "killa." Strange that my first post was made to do nothing but agree with someone whom I believe is responsible for setting standards around here and I'm somehow on the defensive. Seems rather backwards to me. BluesStringer

Reply to IMPORTANT! Re: Wallpaper rejections in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I sure didn't say I don't put effort into it DesignCaddy. I put hours and hours into it and try to do what someone, I think it was Jafo, suggested earlier in the thread and *not* submit something until I'm pleased with it and think it represents a "finished" work. But I'm not going to lie and claim that I'm an accomplished artist and that I know where I'm going from beginning to end. I'm not and I don't. If anyone gets irked over me being honest and trying to recognize reality in that regard and

Reply to IMPORTANT! Re: Wallpaper rejections in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Most have ''issues'' with Terragen and Bryce in particular as they tend to be the ''artist'' not the person pushing the buttons. Many people new to these proggies assume they are creating something new and wonderful....they are, but ONLY to them, as generally the outcome is a bunch of ''defaults''. Eventually the artist will triumph over the tool and create something act

Reply to May Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Shwew! Took forever but I finally found a link to that wall. Glad to be able to give credit to "neener" for it too. Get it here: http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=11887 Says there's different colors in the zip too! I only got the orange one so I'm headed back to d/l again. Hope y'all enjoy. Sorry for all the posts.

Reply to May Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks y'all. Wish I could take credit for any of it. I saw that wall in the SS library one day awhile back and went gah-gah over it too. I always say this, but I *think* I'm going to be sticking with this setup for awhile!

Reply to May Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I wish I knew who all the authors were, especially the wall. But I don''t. The WB is Orange Graf, the cursor, WA and weather object are all CopperDeck II and the Rainy is is also only I just used the graphic from the weather object to make it. The DX is a mod of gef''s Sferical theme. The Sysmetrix is P100-Orange (slightly recolored) by pinchecl. I do remember that I either found the wall here or found a link to it he

Question About Approval Time in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

To Whom It May Concern, Last week I u/l'ed a Suite. I can't say for positive, but I think it was last Monday, maybe Tuesday. This is not a complaint, just an inquiry, but I'm wondering if it got lost in the shuffle somehow since it's still showing in "My Skins" as waiting approval and it's been more than 5 days? The title is "Quasi Sentinel" if that helps to find out what's up with it. Thanks for any help you can offer. Take care.

Reply to April Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

rarrlogic, I was wrestling with mine too. Click on the preview image of your ss to bring up the full sized one. Right click somewhere inside the pic and "Properties." The url you want is right there. You can edit your first post to put it there too. [Message Edited]