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Do you use any Desktop Theme Software on Windows?
Darwin:
I own a WindowBlinds license but don't use it except when I get a brief episode of Vista jealousy :)
I haven't tried the beta, but found that WB5 although a huge improvement to previous versions still did cause the odd graphical glitch - enough to be irritating.
Ampa
-Ampa (August 04, 2007, 04:36 PM)
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Heh, heh - DITTO! You've managed to sum up exactly how I feel about WB5 and 6 - I too only use it when I get a fit of Vista envy. I don't much care for many of the "windowblinds" that are available but find some of the variants of Vista pleasant for short bursts until I get tired of the darkness and/or of the glitches that you mention.
Grorgy:
That's the really good thing about wb, if you get sick of something its only a click away to change it, and if you are using the computer a lot I like a bit of eye candy, makes the experience just that little more entertaining for me :D
tomos:
... but i have patched windows to support custom themes ...
-jgpaiva (August 04, 2007, 03:13 PM)
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ehh, is that a complicated business? :)
PhilB66:
I don't have any desktop theme software, but i have patched windows to support custom themes, and i use this theme because it's darker and smaller than any of windows' default themes.
-jgpaiva (August 04, 2007, 03:13 PM)
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Same here, I patched UXTheme.dll and am using XPMC style by ~b0se (Ross Harvey). @tomos check out http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=140707 for details (version 4.0 is the latest) and an informative article at http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1088/how_to_patch_uxtheme_dll_file_xp_home_pro
nite_monkey:
I don't use desktop theme software, MS's windows already burns up a crap load of resources, I don't need desktop theme software using up more, I just patch my uxtheme.dll and then google msstyles, and there is a great site that is like the first or second site, and it has a ton of msstyle themes to choose from that uses MS's Os instead of 3rd party software, but that is just my opinion, with a lot of ram and a really good cpu, you could probably achieve the same thing with software other than the Os.
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