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Custom Desktop question
I was reading the forum a couple of weeks ago and read something about customizing the windows desktop so that all the toolbars and taskbars were all vertical, that is, running up the side of the screen instead of across the top. When I tried to find it again, I came up empty. I tried searching and browsing but could not find it again. The windows help was, well, no help.
Does anyone remember this or know where it is? I would like to try it as it would give me more vertical space on the screen for the cabinet rather than toolbars.
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Does anyone remember this or know where it is? I would like to try it as it would give me more vertical space on the screen for the cabinet rather than toolbars.
Thanks
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Why not quads? eCabinets on one, eCabinets Made Easy on one, TV (or video) on one and everything else on the 4th one.Rick Palechuk wrote:Try dual screens! Workspace on one, bars on the other.
Ok I gotta get in on this one. Imagine your whole wall as a monitor and everything you want and more on your wall anytime you want it. Just say computer beam me up. But this is way out in the distant future probably about 3 years or more. I cheated a bit here because I watched a Windows Vista demo and Bill Gates was changing a whole room like changing your Windows background. So in reality this is all already possible.
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Bill Gates has had a "monitor/TV wall" in his house for about 15 years or so. It used a custom implementation of Windows to tie it all together and this might be where some of the current multiple monitor ideas came from.Paul Huff wrote:Ok I gotta get in on this one. Imagine your whole wall as a monitor and everything you want and more on your wall anytime you want it. Just say computer beam me up. But this is way out in the distant future probably about 3 years or more. I cheated a bit here because I watched a Windows Vista demo and Bill Gates was changing a whole room like changing your Windows background. So in reality this is all already possible.
Personally, I like the "heads up" display in the bathroom mirror that allows you to watch the morning news/weather while you shave. You know the one I'm talking about--it's on a TV commercial--and it already exists.
I personally think the next 20 years in technology will amaze even those of us that take technology for granted now. The smart phone, in my opinion, will be the "hub" of our working and leisure lives. It will have more computing power than today's workstations and will be able to wirelessly interface with "monitors" built into bathroom mirrors and such. In fact, I see the monitor as we know it becoming a thin, foldable piece of plastic that you can carry in your pocket and unfold when you need it--the cocktail napkin of the future. This "cocktail napkin" monitor will of course be a touch screen that you can write on directly. Keyboards will no longer exist as voice recognition comes into its own as the preferred human interface.
I could go on but I need another cup of coffee...
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I was gonna post a picture of a closet cabinet I built a few years ago that incorporated a TV visible through a mirror, (closet/bathroom share a wall), but it seems I've reached my maximum upload quota. WTF? We've done a few of these over the years.......DanEpps wrote:Personally, I like the "heads up" display in the bathroom mirror that allows you to watch the morning news/weather while you shave. You know the one I'm talking about--it's on a TV commercial--and it already exists.
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In the forum topic index, click on your name and you can go to the user control panel and delete old attachmentsMike Seisser wrote:I was gonna post a picture of a closet cabinet I built a few years ago that incorporated a TV visible through a mirror, (closet/bathroom share a wall), but it seems I've reached my maximum upload quota. WTF? We've done a few of these over the years.......
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If I do that, will the pics I've uploaded remain in their respective posts?DanEpps wrote:In the forum topic index, click on your name and you can go to the user control panel and delete old attachmentsMike Seisser wrote:I was gonna post a picture of a closet cabinet I built a few years ago that incorporated a TV visible through a mirror, (closet/bathroom share a wall), but it seems I've reached my maximum upload quota. WTF? We've done a few of these over the years.......
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Relevance....hmmmm. I'll have to check all my old posts.DanEpps wrote:Nope. I usually delete old or no longer relevant attachments.
Thanks Dan, happy Friday to ya.
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Kerry,
When I first read your post on \"simply grabbing the grip on the bar and dragging it to where you want it\", I felt rather stupid. I mean, duh! But as it turned out, I did not have grips and I couldn't grab them. I tried minimizing and making sure my whole window was visible on the screen, but to no avail. However, on my other computer, I have grips and it works! So, it wasnt my stupidity (at least not that time).
An interesting note: You know the little pop-up descriptions that materialize when you point at a button? They dont work when the menu bars are vertical. Go figure.
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When I first read your post on \"simply grabbing the grip on the bar and dragging it to where you want it\", I felt rather stupid. I mean, duh! But as it turned out, I did not have grips and I couldn't grab them. I tried minimizing and making sure my whole window was visible on the screen, but to no avail. However, on my other computer, I have grips and it works! So, it wasnt my stupidity (at least not that time).
An interesting note: You know the little pop-up descriptions that materialize when you point at a button? They dont work when the menu bars are vertical. Go figure.
Thanks
Mike