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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Samwise on November 26, 2003, 12:58:20 AM
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...who got tired of the flashy graphics in XP and defaulted back to the Win 2000 style?
And I must say I like it a lot better.
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I like the XP colours and graphics. I thought the old style was a bit boring.
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I\'m a XP man.. Like using style XP. Prefer to have my own style.. Then a M$ one.
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I guess I\'m just old fashioned. I like the clean Win 2000-like style.
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i have used "classic 2000" style since i installed XP
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The level of customization is neat but the standard xp look drives me crazy. Im all for the old school look.
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I haven\'t messed with mine at all. I had style xp before, but then it cancelled on me because I didn\'t buy it. I\'ve never messed with it since.
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i use style xp... i find the 2k look extremely boring.
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I\'m using the classic interface. Sometimes I forget that I upgraded from Win98..
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The new look was the first thing I removed when I installed.
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Style XP rocks, I hope Longhorn has a feature like this embedded.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/donaldbl/kungfu52/dt9.jpg
"Rev 3" Style
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I hade luna, bored of the 2k look.
So a modded uxtheme.dll (stylexp sucks) and a few styles of choice make my desktop a fun boy.
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I did :
control panel > performance & maintenance > adjust visual fx >
only picked a. common tasks in folders and b. visual style on windows+buttons. colour is metal chrome. this set up benefits
performance while keeping xp visual style.
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Originally posted by nO-One
I hade luna, bored of the 2k look.
So a modded uxtheme.dll (stylexp sucks) and a few styles of choice make my desktop a fun boy.
Why does StyleXP suck? Doesn\'t seem to take up a lot of resources and doesn\'t mess everything up like for instance Stardock Object Desktop.
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I think it causes my OS to load a lot slower. Could be other things though.
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StyleXP = teh crap.
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ok don\'t know if you\'re saying it sux or it\'s the sh*t :confused: :stick:
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Originally posted by Samwise
StyleXP = teh crap.
Why, damnit? I want to know! :)
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I hate the XP look.
All round- bleh.
I just am gonna stick with 2k, and just continue to customize my colors.
Right now I have a blue fade thing. Its cool.
Anyone else customize the color layout?
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I don\'t like the default XP blue/green color combo, and I don\'t like those skin programs... they slow my comp down too much for what they are worth. I just switched it over to the chrome color theme and that\'s it.
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Originally posted by THX
ok don\'t know if you\'re saying it sux or it\'s the sh*t :confused: :stick:
It sux0rz!111 ;) :stick:
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They built a whole program around a hacked uxtheme.dll, which only serves to complycate switching styles. I much more prefer the visualstyles themes over Wb themes but StyleXP is unnecessary.
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Well, it seems I can\'t be trusted. ;)
With help from nO-One (thanks buddy :D) I modded my desktop a little. I\'m not sure this is final, since I just started today, but I do like it so far.
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This is how I like my desktop at the moment
Shot1 (http://demon.vortex.is/myndir/dt2/desktop1.jpg)
Shot2 (http://demon.vortex.is/myndir/dt2/desktop2.jpg)
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It might be a good idea to edit out that ip address like sammy has no-one, you never know who is looking.
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Originally posted by Kurt Angle
It might be a good idea to edit out that ip address like sammy has no-one, you never know who is looking.
*haxes nO-One*
EDIT: It looks like it\'s an internal IP, so it might not be so important. Or, I\'m totally wrong, and Bill Gates is hacking him as we speak. :D
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it\'s an internal ip address not the one to my external router.
Although mm can see my ip address...eek :sconf:
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Only mm? :D
212..................3........ (ok, I\'ll stop ;)).
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heh heh
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StyleXP is only an interface to apply themes. It also uses a modded uxtheme.dll so I don\'t really see the problem.
Modding the uxtheme.dll manually is just work if you ask me. I might do it the next time i reinstall winxp though but right now I\'m fine using StyleXP. No problems whatsoever with it.
But if I decide to use the hacked uxtheme.dll, how would I go about building a theme to use with it? Just use Stylebuilder or do you use something else?
Some literature on the topic would be appreciated. Like how to apply the new uxtheme.dll, how to display themes etc...
BTW, very nice nO-One. :)
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I have Win 98. Man I can\'t wait to get a new computer with XP or the next OS. I\'m probably even going to split the hard drive and put on Linux and use that as the standard OS and just use Windows for games and whatever else. But as for the graphics on 98, I still have the boring grey and blue color scheme. I so want to change it to something cool.
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Originally posted by JP
Modding the uxtheme.dll manually is just work if you ask me.
Actually it came with an installer. Doubleclick, wait 20 secs and tadaa - it\'s done. Doubleclick it again if you wanna get the old uxtheme back.
Installing themes is easy. Just doubleclick on it (or choose it from the monitor properties or whatever it\'s called).
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Ah nice. I searched google and came up with some page explaining how to hack it manually with a hex editor :) hehe. That kinda threw me off...
Could you pm me a link to the installer you used please?
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how did you guys get the systemspecs and systeminfo showing up on the desktop like that? Sysmetrix, sysmeter?
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I use Coolmon. Others use Samurize (more "graphical").
http://coolmon.arsware.org
http://www.samurize.com
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cool. thanks sammy
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Thanks dood! I\'d be more than happy to unistall StyleXP as it does grab some resources and slow down bootup. Can I still use the styles from ThemeXP with Coolmon?
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yep, all that StyleXP really does is crack the uxtheme.dll, I find that applying styles manually is easier than doing it through StyleXP and gives you more control.
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Did you use stylebuilder to build your current desktop setup nO-One?
I see you\'ve combined a couple of themes (or at least I recognise the icons from one theme and the window style theme from another) so I was wondering how you did that.
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I used Stylebuilder to modify the theme, changed the start bar, start menu and a few other things.
The icons are called Gant and I just built an iconpackager file around them, and then I did the background myself.
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cool. gonna give it a shot myself. Thanks for the help.