Your product has somewhat messed up my desktop
Sunday, July 25, 2004 by NingcManiac | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hello everyone! I'm a big fan of program skins and everything that comes with it and i must say I love this site, however, today I have a problem.
I was browsing through the site like I do every once in a while and noticed the "suite" section. While browsing there I noticed a nice OS X suite and decided to try it out. I hence downloaded "ThemeManager" and tried installing the suite, but before it let me it asked me to install all the other programs needed, so I did as it asked. The suite was up and everything was working wonderfully, I must congratulate whoever put everything together. But then I got a problem, I, not being familiar with mac's, unloaded everything and after some thought decided to stick to just using windowblinds and keeping everythign else the same. To do this i successfully uninstalled every program that I had installed.... but now I have a weird bug on my desktop. When I try to drag an icon, the drag messes up, and even more, I cannot put two icons next to each other.... look at the following screenshot:
The red arrows show where the icon is normally and where it should be, and if you take a look at the cursor you will understand the problem. I am 99.99% sure this comes from one of the programs I got from here due to the fact that I haven't installed anythign for a while and that the bug didn't exist 10 minutes ago.
I also tried rebooting twice.... that didn't work. Please someone help me as it is very frustrating!
I was browsing through the site like I do every once in a while and noticed the "suite" section. While browsing there I noticed a nice OS X suite and decided to try it out. I hence downloaded "ThemeManager" and tried installing the suite, but before it let me it asked me to install all the other programs needed, so I did as it asked. The suite was up and everything was working wonderfully, I must congratulate whoever put everything together. But then I got a problem, I, not being familiar with mac's, unloaded everything and after some thought decided to stick to just using windowblinds and keeping everythign else the same. To do this i successfully uninstalled every program that I had installed.... but now I have a weird bug on my desktop. When I try to drag an icon, the drag messes up, and even more, I cannot put two icons next to each other.... look at the following screenshot:
The red arrows show where the icon is normally and where it should be, and if you take a look at the cursor you will understand the problem. I am 99.99% sure this comes from one of the programs I got from here due to the fact that I haven't installed anythign for a while and that the bug didn't exist 10 minutes ago.
I also tried rebooting twice.... that didn't work. Please someone help me as it is very frustrating!
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SelfExiled
Reply #42 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:13 AM
Reply #42 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:13 AM
Automatic updates can cause a world of problems too. Especially if you install MWD drivers on top of non-MWD drivers. I hope you have that function disabled. 
Jafo
Reply #44 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:21 AM
Reply #44 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:21 AM
| it isn't rocket science... |
Ah, but it can be....6 years on and Litestep still gets me stumped at times....
IPlural
Reply #45 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:39 AM
Reply #45 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:39 AM
true, I was speaking more of using restore points
but then again, all of us learn new things at different times with things we have spent working with from their begining.
Heck I still think.feel plug and pray was/is the worst thing that happened to the PC..
but then again, all of us learn new things at different times with things we have spent working with from their begining.
Heck I still think.feel plug and pray was/is the worst thing that happened to the PC..
CerebroJD
Reply #46 Monday, July 26, 2004 3:12 AM
Well, there goes my chances of convincing my parents its a worthy job.
Reply #46 Monday, July 26, 2004 3:12 AM
| it isn't rocket science... |
Well, there goes my chances of convincing my parents its a worthy job.
Satans Child
Reply #48 Monday, July 26, 2004 4:41 AM
Reply #48 Monday, July 26, 2004 4:41 AM
I remember reading some where that the icon cache size can affect the way icons are displayed and even affect the way they are placed (side by side) ... just a thought.
MadDeez
Reply #49 Monday, July 26, 2004 8:44 AM
Reply #49 Monday, July 26, 2004 8:44 AM
when this happened on a friend's machine a few months ago, i installed tweak ui (the ms powertoy) and repaired the icon cache.
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Reply #41 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:09 AM
NingcManiac....probably a good idea is to experiment with GUI customizing a little at a time.
Try Windowblinds, for example...get used to what it does/can do....then try Iconpackager....get used to that....then move on.
It's far wiser to walk before you run....