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For the last couple of days my Steam client interface has been like this. Does anyone know what could have caused this? And how do I fix it? Thanks in Advance for the help...

So since it was released i've heard nothing but hate and frustration over windows 8. Seriously I have zero problems with it, it performs well, and it's smooth to use. I don't necessarily use the Metro UI but you don't even have to?!

Sorry if there is already a tread about this but I could seem to find it. I want to start one with everyone's windows customization software they use. My first one is Hyperdesk by the Skins Factory, even tho it does cost some money, the skins aren't going to fail you. ( For Windows 7) XP and Vista (ew) The Skin Factory has the the UI for a lot of things to check it out and you might be surprised.(They do Aleinwares UI for ex. My second one is Rockdock. I know a lot of people have heard of this but who hasn't it like a mac dock for windows (Desktop Coral is also one that I use mainly for rocketdock, to make a part of your screen open, to you can always see Rocketdock etc.) Hyperdesk by The Skins Factory: http://www.hyperdesk.com/ The Skins Factory: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/ Rocketdock: http://rocketdock.com/ Desktop Coral: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/desktopcoral/ (This Link does look the little sketchy so be careful, its only one I could find) Edit 1: from @Toddwjp Rainmeter! Rainmeter changes your desktop to about whatever you like, with different widgets and such, there is to much to talk about so here: http://rainmeter.net/ Here is some skins so you can see what it does: http://customize.org/rainmeter

Okay, this is my first review, and I will be doing it for Windows 10... When the WAN show archive went up yesterday I wanted to become a Insider. So I did, and here are my first experiences. The thread will be updated if I didn't cover something and will be updated for some older game benchmarks. So, lets tune in, shall we? THE INSTALLATION The Installation via USB was hard enough... Now you wont see the (Press any Key) message pop up... A normal Windows 8 logo will pop up or your manufacturers logo, depends... Don't take your USB out! You will know if it's booting into the installation because it will take longer than normal boot in your current OS! (If you have already installed version of Windows 8) The installation starts and you do the same steps as in 8 or 8.1, but weirdly it doesn't ask for the code they provided you... if you're on USB and it does a first reboot reboot, let it reboot, go into BIOS and change the boot order back from USB to HDD, or you will just loop the installation which can corrupt your boot loader. This time there will be a black screen for a longer time, and a Windows 8 logo for a longer time... When it boots it will setup things and then you need to type in your email, and this time you can't bypass this (I couldn't) This makes sense, when you go into Hotmail you need to provide them another email address from now to use it (for backup purposes) and they even ask you a mail you provided in the Hotmail for activation purposes.... Activation goes like this! 1. Email here 2. Password here Click next 3. Secondary email you provided in Hotmail while becoming a insider Click next 4. Code they will give you on your secondary email PUT HERE! Click next It should activate everything now, and you're ready to go... It automatically installs a generic NVidia or AMD driver in your system FILES, FOLDERS AND NEW UI! When you boot up after installation, you will be presented with the same desktop as on windows 8... But, HOLY CRAP, THERE ACTUALLY IS A START MENU which reminds more of XP! I won't provide any pictures, if you wanna see you gotta do it for yourself If you already had Windows 8, even if you don't click upgrade in installation (because you want to dual boot just like I did), they will give you the same wallpaper you got on Windows 8, on your desktop... Also the Metro interface still exists, but you need to enable it... To do so: Right Click on taskbar -> Properties -> Start Menu tab -> Uncheck first option... There you go... There is also a search icon, it just does quick searches on bing, when you first use it the message will pop up: "Why didn't you use the Start Menu?" Which made me laugh as hell Third Icon on taskbar manages your opened windows, and HOLY CRAP! WHOLE DESKTOPS... Yes, you can add those... When you add them it just duplicates the first one you have, but you can customize the second one, and leave the first one alone! On your taskbar will also be pinned: Internet Explorer, File explorer that was renamed to "home", Store app and nothing else Everything else is pretty minimalistic... And did I say that the Metro apps (now intergraded in the start menu) don't have to be full screen? You get everything you got with 8.1, but it also suggest what you should install based upon your last OS, which is nice! Also there are animations which are actually cool looking (slight and smooth gliding when opening windows), so you won't need to turn them off! Also the Window borders are thinner which you can notice from my other photos DRIVERS, HARDWARE DETECTION All the hardware is properly detected, drivers for them are preinstalled, but the newer ones seem to be working fine... SPEED In daily use I noticed that it is a bit faster than normal, but, I will also have to do some light gaming on this (pretty weak laptop) INTERNET EXPLORER It is very fast, and sturdy, good for watching videos, playing flash games, but the software from this forum doesn't cope well with it... In fact I'm using it right now and you cant Quote, change the size and color, but everything else tends to be fine! DUAL BOOTING Dual booting is nice and in fact you can dual boot 8, 8.1 and 10 no problem, but it uses either 7 or 8 boot loader... (7 uses ASCII and 8 uses actual GUI) Even tho there is one weird thing, it says (recovered) next to the name of the older OS... EDIT: Dual boot menu doesn't always appear and can't find a possible solution for the problem... So multiple restarts required for 8 or Techinal Preview boot... GAMING This section is coming soon... Okay, had some time with the new Windows, and gotta say, the gaming performance is pretty good... And another thing i noticed is that heat output of the laptop is so much less defined... I currently tested on games like: CoD4 and Burnout: Paradise City. We all know that the new games will run well on the New Windows, but the older games are always the problem... The FPS was better... Before Windows 10 I had 10-30 FPS but now I have from 30-60 with drops to 15 when multiple cars are crashing and such... CoD4 was never hard to run... Mod on custom mods like Zombies and Deathrun with custom or not custom map I always keep above 30 FPS, but most of the times I get 250 lock if playing Deathrun servers... Next games to test: GTA: SA MW3 or COD2 TF2 NFS WORLD... For now, my grade would be 8/10, speedy, sleek, nice... But it all comes down to gaming, or it will be the same thing as the old pal windows 8, except with start menu BUGS AND GLITCHES The new Windows has some bugs! It will sometimes freeze, and the Explorer will sometimes glitch, requering a whole restart of computer or ending the bugged process, things sometimes don't open, but it almost never crashed, which is nice since it's only in Beta! Windows will automatically provide you with questions for feedback which you can answer on the fly... If you are experiencing a glitch just report it to Microsoft, still this is a very nice OS!

Hi, I am developing a website for my dad's welding and fabrication business and I am looking for tips on usability, while also maintaining good looks. I apologise in advance for the slow load time, this site is on a dev server in my office, and, being in Australia, the internet is really slow (approx. 400Kbps) upload. The link to the site is below. http://fish.cairnspc.com/psw_dev/ Thanks

Can anyone help me? So I have a normal table with inputs inside td's. Now what I want to do is when the tr:last-child>td:first-child>input has something in it, a new row automatically be added. And then when you erase the value of tr:nth-last-child(2)>td:first-child>input, the tr:last-child should be deleted. Somehow the function work except to the dynamically added markups.... http://jsfiddle.net/7XZEV/

Hello everyone! Just been bored lately and decided to play around with Visual Basic a bit and decided to see what Internet Explorer would look like but also perform with the Ribbon UI implemented instead of the "Classic" UI, this is a very basic and simple program that just adds a "Custom made" UI over the "Web Browser" control in VB.NET. This means it's really just Internet Explorer at the core and requires that to be installed in order to run as there is actually no engine provided. Total work time: 2 Hours (Includes design and images that were converted from IE to this program, there is no Ribbon Control used just painstakingly custom vectors/panels) Just a screenshot: Would anyone be interested in the small compiled binary that makes this happen? Keep in mind this was a short little project and is currently highly unoptimized EDIT: Here's a link to try it yourself, 400kb binary file. Place anywhere and run, it is portable as long as machine runs Windows and has Internet Explorer and .NET Framework 4.5 installed. http://www.mediafire.com/?35z7ok154kaand2

since its start I always thought Youtube's layout sucked, and even nowadays it still does IMO, I had nothing to do and decided to spend 10 minutes doing this layout, it's more like a sketch but ohhhhhhh it is so much better.. there's one thing to notice tho, this layout is not perfect for all size screens, actually such thing doesn't exist, this one i have "designed" is only good for big screens, 26"+ to be more precise. Microsoft and Google still don't get it, it's not about the resolution, it's all about the screen size, doesn't matter if you watching it in a 640p or 1600p screen, what really matters is the screen size, the PPI and resolution are almost not relevant. Twitch for example have a scalable layout, so if you have say a 1080p 7 inch tablet you can easily zoom in/out to edit the layout at your taste, so that it would fit ANY screen PERFECTLY bcuz it is resolution independent. I think that's exactly what Youtube should aim for, a scalable layout. Anyways this is wot i've figured would be a good UI for them big screens (26"+). Please leave your thoughts and fell free to share your own view of how youtube's UI should be or to improve mine in any aspect..

What is that called again? The technique to make the UI as bad as possible to discourage user to do something, like hiding a link between layers of link, I remember watching a youtube video about it years ago, but I can't seems to find it.

I'm so used to it. I need it back.

I don't know about anyone else but do you feel websites (and GUIs in general) need to do more to: Use more easily distinguishable colour schemes? http://colorbrewer2.org/ provides many different schemes including photocopy and colourblind safe options. Follow Schneiderman's 8 Golden Rules?

Here's my multiquote button. It works, but I can't see how many quotes I've gathered. Not that it matters much. Firefox 53.0.2. I updated it today but it was working earlier after the update. I've already reopened browser.