…mostly.
Here’s another diversion.
Unnecessary confession: I use Windoze. Because I have to. (I also use PCBSD and Ubuntu, but that’s for pleasure… and some work/productivity.) So far, I have managed to avoid installing Vista on any twc central computers. *whew!* (Wipes forehead gratefully. *heh*) I have seen enough Vista computers “in the wild” to become convinced that, apart from the eye candy, it’s just not worth the hassle for most folks to switch from XP to Vista, if they must use Windows. And even buying a new computer with Vista installed can be problematic; I’ve already seen enough software incompatibilities in the workplace and problems with drivers for peripherals to know it just is not for most of the folks I know, including me. And this is quite apart from the fact that Vista–even installed new on “Vista-ready” computers is generally–from what I’ve actually seen “in the wild”–*heh*–a resource hog and slower than a properly-configured XP computer.
And, despite the monthly or more bug fixes and patches, Vista’s SP-1 is not really available for general installation–not that it is a definite improvement.
Still, there are a few things about Vista that are nice. The eye candy. 😉 But… all I had to do to get the “AeroGlass” look in PCBSD was simply download a skin. And for various versions of Windows, skinning and other Vista-like functionality is available for free via various downloads(free registration required for download), some of which also offer the 3D “flipping” of cascaded apps, etc.
The screencap above is on a Win2K machine with some of the functionality of PCMag’s “VistaMagicPack” (the first link above) enabled. Not half bad, and no discernable performance hit on a middlin’ old 1.3Ghz machine with only 512MB RAM and a tiny lil 16MB vidcard. Try running Vista with all the eye candy on that machine. Not.
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I told them to get that vista out of my computer. I think they snuck it in through the im 7. troublemakers. They didn’t want to, but I wasn’t having it. How dare they try to take my computer hostage! Argghhhh!
avoiding current events eh?..cant imagine why..heh 🙂 stay happy!
I’m running XP but love the look of Vista, just not the problems a friend of mine has had – turned out to be a bad graphics card put in there from the factory! The company paid to have it fixed locally and she’s had no more problems. But took them almost a year to decide to let them check it out locally.
I’m thinking about d/loading this program. Is is really safe? And, does it have more than one of the 3-D games?
All I’m using from the pack is the Aero look. I tried the “flipper” thing in a PCBSD skin and didn’t much care for it. YMMV.
I avoid current events too, they are draining!
Oh, and Angel, “stay happy” doesn’t suit well right now either. I came down with Son & Heir’s Monster Winter Cold this last weekend and I don’t seem to have the energy to “be” much of anything.
*heh*