pjpowell

pjpowell

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Reply to Questions in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Use VMWare. /me is currently running Virtual PC with OS/2, Win98, ME, XP RC2 and soon to be 2K (possibly linux). I hate dual booting also.

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Reply to In light of what has gone on this is something everyone should read... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

(disclaimer) I really do not want to offend anyone with this next post. I have made some good friends in the skinning community from all over the world and I really don't want to jeopardise this. You speak about it being good to take pride in your country. But the way some of these things are said says to non US people 'You can't take care of your problems and we have to help you out all the time'. Maybe it's true and maybe it's not but this does go against our pride and (unintention

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Reply to Desktop X Multi Resolution in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Paxx: On some (not all) themes you can get around that by making objects out of sections of the wallpaper. The Heavy Equipment DesktopX theme was (when fist designed) tied into the wallpaper. Objects were created from the background wall and it is now resolution independent. This does depend on the style of the wallpaper. If the wallpaper is mainly blank (gradients or plain colour) this method can be used easily.

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Reply to Heroes of the skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jafo: I hear ess-vid is a kind soul who does icons on demand. Apparently he does them because it gives him a warm fuzzy feeling when someone say how much they like them. Errr. Or something...

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Reply to Desktop X advice, Pleeeeeze. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You can create a systray object or a taskbar object. Just create a new object (Blue circle) and then change the class to system tray or Taskbar. It defaults to a grey thing but you can easily create a taskbar in the style you want. See a theme that contains one to see how to skin it. minimalism 2000 contains both

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Reply to Heroes of the skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There are so many that I'm not going to re-list them. But like Buzz I would put MadIce up there. His WBAmp plugin was what got me into skinning. I did my first skin purely as a way to test his plugin. The skin is a nightmare but the plugin was/is great. He was so helpful in my first days of skinning and gave me a lot of advice on various things. Without his help then I probably would not be posting on this site now. He then updated his plugin and I was forced to do another WB skin (after

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Reply to A comment caught my eye. . . .and a proposal for the benefit of the community in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hegramet said: ------------ How could variety and competition be bad for anyone but stardock in this case. . .Are they acting in your best interests by not allowing it? NO! So don't defend them or their decisions; you don't get paid to. . .they do. . .I would like to hear from Brad on this topic. ------------ If they did have every competing softwares skins on this site and thus turned people to those software instead of their own it would harm the company. Any harm to the com

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Reply to Registered your software? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Umm, crae : > Another thing (going slightly off topic now) is > the role of Froggy. He is not an admin nor has > he anything to do with this site (right?). Froggy is an admin. Not sure why you think he isn't. Just look at the bottom of his posts : by Admin Frogboy If you were making some kind of joke and I missed it I apologise. It's late here.

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Reply to Typing speed in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Results for pjpowell Percentage Accuracy : 100% Percentage Inaccuracy : 0% Characters per minute : 279 cpm Characters per second : 4 cps Words per minute : 57 wpm Words per second : 0 wps Total Speed status : Okay Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on But these are probably not completely accurate. I cannot touchtype and only really use a few fingers. I can type faster if I don't have to actually read something and take my eyes off the keyboar

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