Germany: Dump Windows 8, it's an NSA backdoor

August 22, 2013, 9:06 pm

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English Blog: Investment Watch.



Germany has announced it will be purging Windows 8 and security minded companies should do the same.
According to the Germany's BSI Windows 8 comes shipped with a Microsoft/NSA partnered backdoor "Trusted Computing" feature and TPM 2.0 microchip that takes control of your computer without your knowledge.  The user meanwhile can't do anything about it.

In response Windows 8 itself will be downgraded and knowled...

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Word Association

August 23, 2013, 4:45 am

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After the last one was locked due to getting the servers in a twist, I felt compelled to keep the tradition going... My first word is.....

Sydney.



 

Keep a Word - Drop a Word

August 23, 2013, 4:46 am

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Quite simple:  I start off with 2 words.  The next person keeps one of the words and replaces the dropped word with another.

Examples:  Run fast

                 Fast cars

                 Cars rock

My word to start:  Christmas holiday

Back to school

August 23, 2013, 5:12 am

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How many times does nonsense come up? All the time? Yeah well...a collection of nonsense words that can help you be a good decoder. Got any to add?

New Master WindowBlinds Skin: Persium

August 23, 2013, 8:44 am

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LightStar has posted his latest Master WindowBlinds skin called Persium today.  If you like blue, you will love this skin which puts a colorful look on your desktop yet still easy to work with.

Persium by LightStar

 




WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount on Master Skins!

Start Menu Places List Right transparency

August 23, 2013, 8:44 am

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guys,i need your help again lol.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/vstm.png/



my start menu placeslist right transparent removed the inner glow of my image.and changed the entire image to perfect clear.i think the problem is the alpha i added..

and i don't know how to fix this.

the top part and bottom bar have both semi white tranparent but when i add alpha to image in PS and upload to SKS w/checked alpha channel it ended like this.

i want to  leave the semi whi...

It's Zubaz Day!

August 23, 2013, 10:24 am

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Two constants in an ever changing world. His birthday and his typing!

Happy birthday, sir! Hope it's filled with all you love and enjoy.

 

  

Fences 2.11 crashes Windows desktop on Windows 8 Pro 32 bit edition

August 23, 2013, 12:57 pm

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Fences 2.11 crashes Windows Desktop on Windows 8 Pro 32 bit edition. Version 2.10 ran fine, but 2.11 keeps banking the desktop & regenerating it.  reinstalled 2.10 all OK.  New version of ModernMix for Windows 8.1 runs OK, just Fences 2.11 has a problem.

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August 2013 Desktop Screenshots

August 23, 2013, 1:07 pm

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August 1st... and I'm still diggin' this wall... this time with LCD...

 

Have a creative August everyone... and show us how you're doing it here...  

 

Video Image Stop

August 23, 2013, 1:40 pm

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Video Image name: CalmSeas can not run in DeskScapes 8 I just bought it. What happen? Please testing because I want to run that image in my desktop Anytime apply this image video then my windows stop and crach please test it now

Yet another plea to update and incorporate SysStats into ObjectDock

August 23, 2013, 2:14 pm

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Please update the now-open-source SysStats so that it works with the current version of ObjectDock.  I need real-time info on what's going on in my system, and having that info in a dock would be great.

Since upgrading to Windows 8, I've had to rely on 8Gadget Tools and its included meters to provide system info.  The stuff created for SysStats over the years, however, is much better looking and easier to read at a glance.

If a SysStats update isn't possible or probab...

Dock at top of screen mis-behaving, and other problems

August 23, 2013, 2:59 pm

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1. Because of conflicts between the Win 7 Task Bar and OD (in terms of auto-hide. I can't figure out a good combination of

auto-hide on the task-bar and the dock and they conflict with each other), I have moved my dock to the top of the screen.

Other than that, it is identical to it's appearance/content as when it was on the bottom of the screen.

I am also having the following problems:

2. Occasionally, when I click on an program to start, an entirely different program (altho...

Wip R.A. Fx

August 23, 2013, 3:14 pm

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Soon...hopefully 



 

Object Desktop Control Center problems and questions

August 23, 2013, 3:32 pm

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For at least the last 10 years I've been running OD's Control Center on my company issued machine, mostly for the virtual desktop features.  My old XP machine has now been replaced by my company with a Windows 7 machine.  Desirous to not completely disrupt my work habits, I went to stardock.com, logged into my account, and downloaded the "Legacy" version available to me there.

Unfortunately it doesn't work all that well.  Even though I've tried locking certain w...

Start8 Button Mini-Contest Ends This Upcoming Monday

August 23, 2013, 5:09 pm

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I have to say I'm quite impressed at the number of entries received, and the quality of those as well.  I just wanted to drop a friendly reminder that the contest ends this Monday, August 26th at noon.  That's still plenty of time to enter, so get to work!

Contest details

Start8 gallery

 

 

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Custom taskbar with Close button?

August 23, 2013, 9:41 pm

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Hi, is there any skin that could add close button to taskbar buttons?

I've searched around but couldn't find it...

I saw something like this back then on a cafe, the close button is next to the name of the taskbar,

i.e:

 

My Computer X

 

Anyone know how to do this? 

 

I also want it to be always on top..

This is for secure computer, task manager is disabled so i have to find a workaround to end task if a program hangs

 

thanks ...

Is WC responsible for this

August 23, 2013, 9:59 pm

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I've starting getting this pop-up in the forums.



If you are responsible, please stop. The best possible experience is defined by the user, not someone else.

HELP

August 25, 2013, 8:05 pm

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Help,

how do you install the logon themes?

A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

August 25, 2013, 9:29 pm

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I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."


.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.

x-rebirth graphic card question

August 26, 2013, 6:25 am

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Which graphic card is better?I am looking forward to playing X rebirth and the recommended specs for the graphic card is

Nvidia GT500 series with 1GB RAM

And I have : Graphic is: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 1GB GDDR5 for Win 8

I don't know much about cards and all the names are confusing me, I assume that my 640 beats a 500 but like i said I do not know much about them...

Is my card good regarding this card?