The Real Shark

The Real Shark

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Reply to Object Desktop 2008 released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I am having trouble upating IP through Impulse. It says there is an update available but when I try to download, it says my serial number is invalid. I can update other programs fine. I am na OD suscriber and Impulse has me as an OD Ultimate subscriber, so I would thnk everythig would work, but it does not. Any clues?

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Reply to Aston 1.9.2 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

If you are using XP, use ShellSwapper and get back into Explorer as your shell. Use the Control Panel to uninstall Aston. Then, more than likely your system will have no shell. Don't panic. It will probably boot into a screen with only the mouse showing. Start Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) File/Run... Regedit [Enter] - To set the DEFAULT system shell: * Locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MAC

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Reply to Aston 1.9.2 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Not to make too fine a point of it, but I believe all that does is run ShellSwapper in DOS mode. At this point, I don't believe I has Shellswapper installed even though my Registry entries were still set running Aston Shell as the shell. And I really had a bad taste in my mouth about thsi experience with Aston. As stated before, when I had ShellSwapper installed, and chose to run Explorer, it made Explorer very slow. For instance, when I clicked the St

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Reply to Aston 1.9.2 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

@ Gregory2001-I DID have it in Explorer, not Aston, when I uninstalled. It then did just as I described. What Aston WANTS to do is remain on your system and WANTS you to use ShellSwapper to go back and forth between Aston and Explorer. I tried this as well. Man, what a slow down! Explorer slowed to a CRAWL. That's when I had had enough. It still does not uninstall cleanly when you want it to.

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Reply to Aston 1.9.2 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Yep, I had the same problem. When I uninstalled I had no icons or start bar, which is actually the shell. You will need to edit the Registry nad add Explorer.exe back to where Aston inserts itself (assuming you are using WinXP) because Aston does a very poor job of uninstalling itself. And, this info. is NOT on the Aston website. It does have how to fix if you are running Win98/ME, but not XP. I have learned my lesson. Never again... Yeah, i

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Reply to Is Skinning Worth It? in Community WinCustomize Forums

Now that idea (Adept's) really makes sense. Many times you may look at a skin and think it is cool. But, when you use it, you may like it. And, the opposite is true. There may be a skin that looks so-so. But, when you download and use it, you fall in love with it. Also, I am very much in favor of the artist being able to nix commnents... Fuzzy may be right that only skinners should be allowed to rate. But, if this is done then, it

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Reply to Is Skinning Worth It? in Community WinCustomize Forums

I would like to echo the semtiments of those that say to ^^Gabriel, PixelPirate, Boxxi, and essorant-you are great skinners. I would wish you not stop skinning. Indeed your designs are interesting and classic. You push the envelope for the rest of us that wish to aspire to skinning. I really do not have the time. I have played with certain elements like just designing a minimize. maximize, close button. This takes me much time and makes me appreciate w

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Reply to Didn't you know capitalism was bad? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Cygnus...if you are an admitted bigot, then you cannot call someone else down for being a bigot. If indeed bigotry is an intolerable belief in one's own opinions, you should not expect anyone to agree with you because it should not matter to you. It should not bother you that someone other than yourself is a bigot. And, yet you call Frogboy a bigot, as if there is something wrong with it, while admitting that you are a bigot. You are using a self-defea

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Reply to Top Nine reasons the MacOS X dock sucks in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The whole reason any of us are even reading this is because in some form or another, we like eye-candy! That's what this whole website and Object Desktop is about. But, it's not for everybody. I have friends and relatives who think I'm nuts. Yeah, they think my desktop is cool looking but they are not IMPRESSED with my icons or my skins. I think it's the coolest thing you can do to your PC. Do I like the Dock? Object Dock is funtional and cool-looking. What more could I want? Of course, I al

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Kryptonite Icons? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey: When we got the Wincustomize newsletter that previewed the new Premium suite called Kryptonite for subcribers, it Had some neat icons that I thought would surely be included in the suite. Has that changed? Or, where can I get the icons in the preview? Shark

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Reply to BFG Technologies Releases 3 WindowBlinds Skins in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Awesome. Simply Awesome. Now, if we only had some icons. Yes, I know you can download a small packge from nVidia, but it has less than 10 total icons. I would like to see a full package to go with this nVidia skin. But, hey, I'm not complaining. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the skins.

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