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how do you guys do all that pasty and adding lingo on your cartoon stuff, what do you guys use.

 

Anything from couple hundred $ Photoshop to that little free proggy nobody knows about called "paint" on windows hidden in the accessories section of the start menu.

 

FredBun
Main program i use to add good cartoon color is Corel Photo House
then i drop it into microsoft digital image 2006 for cloning then move it to picture it 2000.to add some effects..and text..

which takes 15 min or less to do..

photoshop and gump takes to long

3.05 final has been released here

DOWNLOAD
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Paint.NET_d4548.html

 

Wow, thanks so much Ireland, you know me by now, 1 min to download and 3 years to figure it out lol, but I'll get it.

 

A minute? You on dial-up? Lol, just kidding. I have a crapload of software that I dont even know how to use, which makes me wonder why I even have it.

 

Know what you mean.. I have over 19000 listed programs.. not a clue what 50% of them do...

One for reading windows .lit files called "clit".. I just had to install it, even though I have never ever seen a .lit file

As for that 2,6 thing (mess?) Why install vista on a machine that isn't capable of running all it's applications.. more wool pulling going on here.

 

Personally, when I get my grad laptop which will probably have vista on it, I'm gonna wipe it out.

 

I LOVE MY WINDOWS 2000,BUT FOR WINDOWS XP-POOP AND A LITTLE OF VISTA CRAP
READ BELOW.....

Windows XP OS is really quite a crock

On the Mohney It's all so beautiful at the end of the sepia rainbow

By Doug Mohney: Tuesday 10 April 2007, 20:53
IT'S AMAZING that Microsoft built-in a disk defragger into Windows XP, but it didn't get around to building an operating system defragger.

After a while, XP starts to get slow as programs accumulate and finally you're left wondering why it takes a couple of minutes to boot up, with other times watching the hard disk start thrashing around as it swaps between processes.

I suppose I could attribute this to a Grand Conspiracy with hardware companies whereby your machine gets slow, you buy upgrades, and you ultimately buy a new machine. Alternatively, Microsoft was so busy trying to build and fix Vista that it thought an OS-type defragger (i.e. Get rid of the old stuff, make things faster) was a waste.

I'm disinclined to believe the latter case, since Microsoft's idea of speeding up Vista is to store the core boot processes and frequently accessed files in flash memory rather than on hard drive About the closest thing you get in Vista to a system defrag is a "Resource Exhaustion Prevention" feature, where Vista is nice enough to warn you when resources are low and identifies which processes are consuming the largest amounts of resources.

Instead, we mere mortals are left with opening the hood and poking around with a screwdriver to see what might improve performance.

A stroll through XP's Windows Task Manager is quite instructive when you sort things out by CPU and memory usage from high to low. I'm amazed at the number of companies/programmers that assumed it's OK to load there processes into RAM for faster loading – even if the program hasn't been run yet. Evil-doers on my list include Adobe's acrotray.exe, and a pair of iTunes processes. I'd also love to know why F-Secure's fssm32.exe wants to suck between 105 to 96 MB of RAM while in idle, but I suspect that's a story for another day.

My first step to cleaning house is an old favourite, going to Control Panel and "Add or Remove Programs." I start deleting off things I haven't used in a while (Or never – there's so much crap that gets loaded on a spanking new PC it's almost obscene because it's not porn). The "Add/Remove Windows Components" piece is a one-shot deal, but it's always worth checking to free up some disk space.

After the obvious has been removed, it's time for some third-party tools. I grabbed UniBlue's (www.uniblue.com) PowerSuite on sale for $59.00 and ran the trio of SpyEraser to clean out spyware, SpeedUpMyPC to scrounge up RAM, delete various junk and temporary files, and remove some start up items, then run RegistryBooster to clean out all the left over and broken entries in the registry files from removing programs. RegistryBooster can be annoying; because it has one process to cleanup the registry of old and damaged entries and another process to "defrag" the registry. Both request/require reboot after execution.

To polish things off for this round, I use WinPatrol (www.winpatrol.com) to browse through my startup programs to see what I else I can strip out of the startup routine (alas, for the days of Autoexec.bat). Basic WinPatrol, complete with Scottie Doggie icon and when it starts, is a freebie downloads. I may shell out the $29.95 for WinPatrol PLUS in order to get single-click reference help on the different files stuck in Startup and various REGISTRY entries.

Are there better ways to clean up and speed up a Windows XP? Sure, there are plenty of different techniques and options, but if Microsoft had some smarts, they'd build a lean-and-mean Vista (since XP is now "legacy") for laptops and desktops without all the assorted crap that they've built in over the years. µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38834

 

It's like:

- "The beautiful high-tech cupholders are reason enough to buy this make and model of your next vehicle."

- "Yeah, right, but it is a dog slow 5-ton monster truck with a 3-cylinder Geo engine in it and it costs a lot."

- "If you use jet fuel, it will be almost as fast as your regular Geo."

- "So, why should I switch when my Geo is just fine?"

- "You will never experience the quality of the new cupholders if you hold on to your old Geo."

- "I never used cupholders anyway."

- "Ah, you don't know what you've been missing. I love cupholders! Couldn't live without them."

And on, and on, and on ...

Still no compelling reason whatsoever to switch to Vista. Even the most avid Vista supporters can't get past the typical micro-soft sales pitch.

 

That move is a bit dodgy Neph.. We have got very well into the bashing in here..

Stock answer to "problem with vista"

"Install xp you gomper! Vista is a heap of steaming fertilizer!!"

 

is it true dell is gonna start selling thier computers with xp again? if that doesnt send a message to microsucks I dont know what will.

 

Thanks for the move Neph, now i can safely point all idiots with Vista questions to this thread, and not have them think that i'm pulling their leg.

 

VISTA READY,MY ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

@ ireland - why did you change your pic of creaky.

 

HERE YE GO 21Q


I will not be adding more info to this thread on vista
it will be posted here

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/295688

 

noo dun leave the thread!! that thread is for good vista news...there is none so you will have to post all vista stuff here