Koasati , nice to see your still with us! sorry, I though it was name calling. By the way I just love Stardock when I had the trial version and once it starts working again I'm sure I'll be the first to bake a cake.

However, I can't risk more problems than its already given me,and really if I have to access theses programs separately from another website, whats the point, by the time everyone has created a website for there winstyles it would cost a fortune. I still had installed the trial built in Nov. but it extracted it. And yes I have all and everything installed on my harddrive including all packages, icons, windowblinds,winstyles,objectbar, but nothing loads. Also had a second backup CD of programs. I have plenty of memory,ram,and whatever. I also have the old CM that woun't uninstall and the New Component Manager that woun't uninstall. I also have the CD to install and I've also downloaded from the website. So whats the problem? Your guess is as good as mine.

I am somewhere between totally and thoroughly lost.

Run and install Stardock Central....it does NOT bite, nor does it endanger your system any more than Microsoft has done originally.

If you think your system will somehow be endangered by using this program you are mistaken.  Your system is already 'endangered' because you hook up to the internet.

Other than that there is absolutely no difference.

michael havard
Let me be the first to say I agree with you, Stardock has had terrific support with e-mail and by phone but problems presist so thats why I'm here. I'm not trying to badmouth Stardock, I'm simply trying to get it working, I can't continue with this night and day its making me sick, as I think you said you noticed. I'm sorry but Stardock has caused my problem and I'm legitimate my parents are married.

Ok, I figured out one thing. The hyperlinks you mention in Display Properties is where the skins are are shown in the skin preview pane and certainly has nothing to do with SDC. It's always been there in WindowBlinds. That sends you to a WindowBlinds page where you can click on a link to go to the Wincustomize library. I've never used that hyperlink in the skin preview for anything. Ignore it. It's no biggie and it's nothing new.

Yes and with it you have temporary files that are downloaded using your firewall, that can be removed now or later and so how many browsers can you have functioning on your PC at one time? And if you have this browser with a server that has access thur this browser they also have access to your PC right or am I missing something here? I know that there was access to my PC while I was away from the system because SDC extracted files, all you have to do is read thats its extracting files while downloading the programs in updates. Are you stating I'm wrong in this matter?

Downloaded temporary files using your firewall? Sorry, but that makes no sense. Your browser downloads the internet files when you browse, not your firewall. And you can use a number of broswers on your computer at one time. Right now I'm using the WC skinbrowser and I also have IE open to other sites. Sometimes I have three different browsers open for different purposes.

And you keep talking about servers with access. Do you understand that when you use you browser on the internet to surf it is downloading data to your computer from servers of the websites you visit? That's precisely what the SDC browser component does, exactly what your IE does, downloads data, whether web pages or the discussion board data to your PC. Presumably you're using this discussion board through your internet browser. SDC's and WC's browser works the exact same way.

SDC extracting files? Are you talking about when it updates itself? It's adding files to itself to update. "Extracting" doesn't mean deleting in that context. It means it's "unloading" the new files to install to itself. Only the SDC updates for itself can be automatically downloaded and installed. It doesn't do that for any other programs. So yes, you are wrong.

I'm sorry, a major problem in this communication is that it appears that you do not understand how your PC and programs work.

As for bypassing your firewall, legit programs can only do that if you seriously misconfigured your firewall. If you're using ZoneAlarm, you have to had given these programs permission to contact the internet just like IE, so your firewall is not bypassed.

And as for newsgroups, as I said in a previous thread, you need to use Outlook Express' newsreader to use them. Anyone can read and post there.

MadIce -Sorry, thats why I'm here to learn all I can, if I was smart in theses matters I wouldn't have to ask someone else. Everyone, thanks for all your imput and advice.
I already have someone e-mailing me which I have sent screen shots of the problems, because I don't know what the problem is or whats causing it, but if someone knows how to uninstall theses programs completely, so I can do a clean reinstall,let me know. I might come back and e-mail the screen shots if this person doesn't know whats causing problems.

#28 by Wizop Koasati - 6/3/2003 12:11:03 AM It's not just you, c242................

Very strange indeed.

Polyphemus, my dislike of SDC is probably my own irritation with the first few betas and their conflict with CM, I've loaded the latest version of SDC and will give it a run of course .... and be very happy if it does work as well as most SD proggies do!
As for CM, I tend to think that 'if it ain't broke then don't try and fix it' .... but that's just me.
It does sound like you need to do a reformat and reload .... the 'problems' you seem to have experienced are more like a contaminated OS than anything else.
As for security, try loading the 'problem' program(s) on a seperate partition.

I don't understand what is going on here and where the problem is.

As far as I can tell (and it's truly difficult), Polyphemus is deeply paranoid about security issues with pretty much anything that moves. I think we are all agreed that there is an ESL issue touching his posts (at least I hope that's it).

Polyphemus, until you contact Nakor directly, I don't think you'll get anywhere - the Stardock team in general and Kris in particular will work hard at solving your problem but this isn't the best place to do it. See if you can itemize your concerns as clearly and consisely as possible.

Good luck to you all!

Oh, Dolores, I am "Angie" from support if you wondered....

If you want to "star over" I would suggest uninstalling all the individual components through the component manager and Stardock Central.  then use add/remove to uninstall Component Manager and Stardock Central.  Reboot.  Redownload, install, and register Stardock Central then register the products that you purchased.  Use them.  If they are functioning correctly, then install your backed up skins and themes.