Ian Hanschen

Ian Hanschen

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Reply to PocketBlinds 1.0 released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Boy, if I only had an infinite amount of time to work on PB, I'd do a lot Custom shell icons & skinnable notification icons may be a possibility(depends how much of the functionality I can hack out, it may just be that PB will just show what the shell would normally show. I have 90% working scrollbars(they work like the old WB scrollbars, so not on combobox lists or other parentless windows), maybe the

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Reply to PocketBlinds 1.0 released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Hi Doreen, Yes, it's normal. The volume menu is PB's own creation, whereas the popup notification is the normal one. I'm cooking up some shell integration stuff(for catching custom navbar text and notification icons in the nav bar area), and there's some stuff I can hook to skin the bubble notification windows. It will not be until everything with this build is happy, and I have the task manager nicer, _and_ I've got the other shell stuff in though <img src="http://images.stardock.com/ima

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Reply to Smartex.exe and mcpserver.exe load on startup.....WHY?!?!?!?! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There is a name confusion. The MCPServer is not even a product, it's basically a process that upcoming products will use to do things that have overlap. (For example, rather than having code & memory consumption by 10 different apps to do something, the code is implemented in the MCP instead). Currently the MCPServer implements a hook chain that allows us to have less system hooks in use. SmartException is dependant on MCPServer. So basically, MCPServer has nothing to do with that page you

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Reply to SmartException/MCP problems? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This morning I was able to find the 9x crash issue(related to the same code as the earlier problems, dealing with MCP's RPC stuff). Please download the updated code from http://www.stardock.com/temp/mcprefresh.zip and extract to your program files\common files\stardock\smartexception directory. You may need to unload mcpserver.exe first(note that you won't see it in the task list on 9x). To unload the mpcserver, simply bring up a dos prompt, navigate to your program files\common files\stardoc

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SmartException/MCP problems? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hi, If any of you are having problems after installing the .66b build, please check the date and time of the MCP/Smartexception files in your Program Files\Common Files\Stardock\SmartException directory. They should be: 07/22/2002 09:52 AM 53,760 MCPClient.dll 07/22/2002 09:52 AM 59,904 MCPServer.exe 07/22/2002 09:54 AM 122,880 SmartEx.exe 07/22/2002 09:53 AM 83,968 SmartEx.dll If the dates do not match, delete the

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SharpE PB3 SP1 Released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

SharpE is a complete shell replacement for explorer. It allows you to replace your default tasbar, system tray, and desktop with a completely new system. sharpE includes many different enhancements of explorer, such as plugins, color schemes, custom icons for applications, customizabl

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Reply to New operating system from us and the skin is comming! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Not to be rude.. But is this a few apps in VB, or a real live operating system? 42 bits is quite an odd number to throw out there. Are you meaning support for virtual 42 bit registers, 42 bit graphics(non-existent), or? The screenshot with the desktop listview had the shadowing as the XP desktop has(with common controls 6.0), and I've my doubts about you already having the win32 API implemented and full DirectX support. What gives?

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Reply to WisBar Finally Updated in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

They're promising future PocketPC 2002 compatibility(the notification issues..), but this is a problem PocketBlinds also has. It's difficult to modify the import table of other processes.

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Reply to QuickChanger essential win 98 update in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

I'd just like to comment that the other 80% of bugs come from things like nanotechnology. Yeees. Bugs so tiny they're able to mask themselves as computer instructions. In fact I think I may have discovered the source of their programming. They come from the m... [CURIOUS DEVELOPER #432554054042 HAS BEEN ASSIMILATED]

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