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i second Minty, what can we get that's free and gets the job done ???
I have a link to a patch that lets you use unsigned theme files. Give me a minute and ill get a link up.Quote:
Originally Posted by GT40_GearHead
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You might want to do some research on it before you use it. I only used it briefly so I'm not sure if there is any negative side effects. I'm also unsure as to what files it can be used with. I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or not but when i had it installed i had a direct x problem. I uninstalled without really doing any trouble shooting.
As far as free options, the only other free options i personally have come across is shell replacements. They tend to change the functionality of your desktop though and im not sure if that is what you are looking for.
You need linux, you do. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MintyMadness
well i have 4 mods on my system , 1 bootskin (it changed the splash screen), logon studio (it changed the screen where you login), cursor xp (changed mouse), and windowblinds 5 (changed the start bar and stuff like that)
bootskin, logon studio, and cursorxp aare all free
windowblinds is about 20 bucks also cursorxp has a pro version for i think 20 as well i used torrent to get them,
and as for ram and how much they take cursorxp show up on my taskmgr taking about 4000k as for the others not sure i can't seem to find them in it so i'm not sure how much mem it hogs but when i play games like battlefield it doesn't seem to be bad (i've never seen its full potential for myself so my idea of running good could be different from yours but i do have a separate logon that has nothing running so i can have more ram available
here are links to bootskin, logon studio, cursorxp, and windowblinds
http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/
http://www.stardock.com/products/logonstudio/
http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/
http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
windowblinds will let u try for i think 45 days but u can just uninstall and then reinstall as it remembers you
I had a trial version of windows blinds, and i must say it did slow down my system, my parents told me to take it off because the system was acting funny. While it was on i couldnt even run halo.
I will say however that its not a powerful PC, I have to run most games on low settings as it is. (Most games meaning halo, which from what i understand doesn't take a powerful computer.)
That being said, if you have a powerful computer, i don't know that windows blinds (or other skinning programs) would really hurt performance, but for me it did.
If i get on the the PC later ill update with the specs on the machine.
WindowsBlinds hurt my computers speed, and I don't have a bad computer by any means (check sig for details)! I could barely render anything in Blender (with Indigo) and IMO, wasn't very good anyways. There are much better skinning programs out there.
They're a waste of system resources, every single theme.
I run WinXP, completely unskinned. Not even the fancy ass bubbly windows xp default ****.
huh. the only problems i've had with windowblinds as of yet is that i can't do anything in goldwave if i try to use any of the options like make a new recording or open a file or anything it says it won't work i think its beucase windowblinds wants to skin it but forsome reason goldwave won't let it do it as for screwing up my games i have run half life 2 with pretty high settings and i haven't had any problems i've only got 36fps but it still seems fine for me ohwell
Right now i have the XP Zune skin. It's a nice break from the crappy blue/green ****. Orange and black... nice.
