Email From I.R.Brainiac?
AKA Michael Benedict
Thursday, March 12, 2020 by RedneckDude | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hey guys, is anyone else getting emails from Michael Benedict? Just wanna know if it's legit.
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Reply #22 Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:18 PM
Eh up lad.. nice to see your not composting yet..
oh and.. Win 10... best thing that ever happened to my PC.
Haven't formatted a single time.. since.
and,,,,,,I will make u deal, old buddy ol' pal..
U make a new WB... and I'll make one.
Reply #23 Saturday, March 14, 2020 5:36 PM
Nice to see you again, Mike. I still use ecoLogical quite frequently!
U make a new WB... and I'll make one.
Reply #24 Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:22 AM
Dang Starkers...No Load Limit was for XP!
I read about your moving mishaps...poor television.
I still run XP and No Load Limit on a non-connected machine to play older games like Myst and Riven, etc..... all on our new 75" TV.
Yup, poor television, it never harmed a soul, yet it died a lonely and painful death in the back of a movers truck. Thing is, I wasn't planning to buy a new TV at the time, but this new TV is so much better... and half the weight of the other one. It has a crisper and cleaner picture with more vibrant colours, and the extra foot of screen space is great for watching rugby league and cricket.
Combined with the new receiver and surround speakers it is great for watching movies and fave TV series as well, not that there's many of those 'worth watching' shows left these days. It may not be quite the cinema experience but it's close enough for me.
U make a new WB... and I'll make one.
Now that would be something special..... so please, please do.
Reply #25 Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:53 AM
Howdy Dave!John!Gary!
I sometimes am tempted to finish that last skin I was working on but that was for 7 and 10 hasnt looked very skinnable.I never even installed 8.
Is 10 skinnable?Does Windowblinds work well on 10?I use 10 at 125% scaling so I dont know how that would work.
I also use LTSB and I rip a lot of it out to make it run MY way.Soooo...not stock.That tends to change things sometimes.
Reply #26 Sunday, March 15, 2020 1:57 PM
Is 10 skinnable?Does Windowblinds work well on 10?
Depends on who you ask.
The browsers don't skin well. And you need a program called OldNewExplorer to get the explorer windows to skin perfectly.
There are a few unskinnable parts. Overall, it skins fairly well.
Dunno about scaling, I tried it briefly when setting up super virtual resolution in Radeon settings. 125% is it's recommendation, I prefer 100%.
Reply #28 Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:22 PM
Wow, Mike!
Good to see ya! I'm also semi retired from skinning but managed to squeeze one out this year after a 3 year break. Would be awesome to see a new I.R. original again!
Reply #29 Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:25 PM
Ok,I have used OldNew Explorer before for visual styles.
I will probably buy a copy of Windowblinds for Win10 just to give it a go,...it is only like 10$ now right?
I still use Windowblinds on my Win7 PC...wouldnt have it any other way.
The visual style hack I run on Win10 for now is very limited(probably for scaling purposes) but it gives me a nice charcoal grey background on everything.For websites I use the Dark Reader plugin on Firefox.I run Firefox with a titlebar like a regular window so it should skin OK.
I am most worried about scaling and the start menu.Havnt used any start menu replacements yet.
Heck,I only just now got Win10 under my control and not MS.
I went from 125 processes at boot to 42.(the answer to Life,the Universe and Everything)
Reply #30 Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:30 PM
Howdy Doc,howdy 2of3!
John,I will probably call you tomorrow...I still have your number if it hasnt changed.(some of yours and Tom's emails came back as undeliverable)
Had a long talk with WebGizmos.He is even more messed up than me.
We had a lot in common.(and commiseration)
Reply #31 Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:34 PM
Who makes the best dark Win10 skins?
Maybe I can peek under the hood.
I still get an occasional new skin notification from way back.Essorant maybe?
Reply #32 Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:46 PM
Heck,I only just now got Win10 under my control and not MS.
Besides Windowbinds and SkinStudio, you will also need Start 10 Mike. The email you had for me went away many years ago when I closed my website, John's got closed too, but his email is still good. I still own the MaxStyles.com domain. I will PM you wil my new email address, phone number too if you ever need it. ![]()
Reply #36 Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:53 PM
Who makes the best dark Win10 skins?
Don5318 and LightStar. IceBabee makes a few.
Neone6 skin's are way outside the box, kinda reminiscent of you, actually.
Reply #37 Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:54 PM
Well, then there are Win10 updates of some of vStylers skins. Maybe you can get him skinning again.
I made a few even. Hardwood is kinda dark. My best work to date.
Reply #38 Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:56 PM
BTW, Mike, not sure if you know, I am RedneckDude now. I think I may have been PuterDudeJim when you were still here.
EDIT: Silly me. i guess the OP kinda gave that away. See, I'm still me....lol.
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Reply #21 Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:30 AM
It is indeed good to know you're still out and about. Thanks for popping back in. Great job with the weight, shoot sometimes even 20 pounds can make a huge difference.
No Load Limit was for XP!
Just saw a recent post where a guy had pulled Not of This Earth onto Win10. I've pulled a few of them over too, some of them grumbling a little bit, and I imagine your work may still be floating around on more machines than you might expect. A cranky old Win10 won't stop us