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[GSH]

My Win7 box at work has been tweaked to have a UI very much like Win2000. It's quite possible to turn off 99% of the eye candy.

-- GSH

[Nielk1]

My Win7 box at work has been tweaked to have a UI very much like Win2000. It's quite possible to turn off 99% of the eye candy.

-- GSH

I wish 7 was able to use XP mstyles.

[HitchcockGreen]

I haven't seen the video, and not about to now. I've lost interest in Windows during XP, with Vista being a horrible turn-out, and then with W7 still being butt-ugly to the core, XP is the only OS I can see that has a simple, but effective UI. Even then, I don't really utilize half of W7's features anyway because its just full of bloat. Microsoft does nothing more than to bloat their OS' to a point that it works against the OS rather than making them functional. This is partly why I want to move to Linux instead, but with no real support in terms of games, I'm forced to continue using Winbloat.

You could always go Win XP 64 bit.

I've heard many stories about XP 64-bit, and many of them are not good. If someone desperately needs 64-bit, W7 is probably the best bet. Or hell, Linux if you're not a gamer or something.

I have to disagree with Windows 7 bloat. I've been using it since Beta and it's pretty quick. In fact, for kicks, I installed it on an old Dell laptop at work (single core processor, 512MB of RAM) and it still ran surprisingly smooth.

Vista was an abortion of an operating system; agreed. It was to Windows 7 as Windows Me was to XP.

[HitchcockGreen]

My Win7 box at work has been tweaked to have a UI very much like Win2000. It's quite possible to turn off 99% of the eye candy.

-- GSH

I wish 7 was able to use XP mstyles.

You actually can. You only have to patch a dll file.

[Nielk1]

You actually can. You only have to patch a dll file.

Show me.


And I liked ME.

[Ded10c]

ME never gave me any problems whilst I was using it, though this was in the early 2000s and I knew nothing about proper computing. Once I moved to XP, the improvement was immeasurable.

[TwinShadow]

I have to disagree with Windows 7 bloat. I've been using it since Beta and it's pretty quick. In fact, for kicks, I installed it on an old Dell laptop at work (single core processor, 512MB of RAM) and it still ran surprisingly smooth.

Vista was an abortion of an operating system; agreed. It was to Windows 7 as Windows Me was to XP.

What I consider bloat could mean different things to different users. My laptop here had issues running W7 and its more modern than the dell you speak of. Intel Centrino Duo 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM.. and it was sluggish from the get-go. But then again, I have an air around me that is vastly anti-Windows and stuff breaks around me without me doing anything.

[HitchcockGreen]

You actually can. You only have to patch a dll file.

Show me.


And I liked ME.

http://forums.techarena.in/customize-de ... ost4207581
Personally I've never tried it as I don't bother skinning windows much.

And to each his own on Me... I only ever got it to work smoothly in a virtual machine. I think it was hardware it didn't like very much.

[HitchcockGreen]

I have to disagree with Windows 7 bloat. I've been using it since Beta and it's pretty quick. In fact, for kicks, I installed it on an old Dell laptop at work (single core processor, 512MB of RAM) and it still ran surprisingly smooth.

Vista was an abortion of an operating system; agreed. It was to Windows 7 as Windows Me was to XP.

What I consider bloat could mean different things to different users. My laptop here had issues running W7 and its more modern than the dell you speak of. Intel Centrino Duo 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM.. and it was sluggish from the get-go. But then again, I have an air around me that is vastly anti-Windows and stuff breaks around me without me doing anything.

Pre-loaded Windows 7 on a Dell? If it was pre-loaded, then likely it's all that crap software they pile on top of it. As well, Dell uses the cheapest hardware possible and it shows.

[Ded10c]

You actually can. You only have to patch a dll file.

Show me.


And I liked ME.

http://forums.techarena.in/customize-de ... ost4207581
Personally I've never tried it as I don't bother skinning windows much.

And to each his own on Me... I only ever got it to work smoothly in a virtual machine. I think it was hardware it didn't like very much.

He means getting an XP style to work on Windows 7 - something like http://www.askvg.com/download-new-offic ... -required/ (bad example as that one is signed)

[HitchcockGreen]

Ha. Didn't check that out completely. Didn't know it didn't do the same thing.
Meh, XP themes aren't as robust as Win7 themes. One feature that really should have been fleshed out in Windows 7 so that it was easier (it isn't, but it's still supported) is image RSS feeds for rotating wallpapers.
It's clumsy, and probably won't be in Win8 (or any OS beyond that) but it really should have been.

[Nielk1]

I already use an unsigned XP theme. Specifically, one that looks very Ubuntu like. But with the windows logo on the start menu and using blue instead of the common orange.

[HitchcockGreen]

Alternatively, you could use something like WindowsBlinds.

[Nielk1]

Alternatively, you could use something like WindowsBlinds.

/me nearly chokes to death....

never again.

[TwinShadow]

Pre-loaded Windows 7 on a Dell? If it was pre-loaded, then likely it's all that crap software they pile on top of it. As well, Dell uses the cheapest hardware possible and it shows.

I have to ask, but where did I say it was pre-loaded? My laptop was pre-loaded with Vista, but I ripped that out fast for something else, something better, something that actually *runs* on my laptop rather well.