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t0rek

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
StyleXP things request

I just tested VistaCG style theme and it rocks, not just for the good job of emulating the Vista's non aero look, it just looks very good.
However I want a Vista icon set, and a vista explorer bar for Style XP. I know there are a lot of Vista icon sets around, but I want very good ones, and the most important thing, is that they should be StyleXP compatible (they are usually zip files but when I try to load them with StyleXP, it gives me and error message telling me that is not compatible or something like that)
That's the thing, I hope you guys can find something (whoa, another vista related thread, I know :p)
 
J

Jakob

evil *******
stylexp does use more resources than a simple modified uxtheme.dll, but stylexp does more, such as the logon screen and the boot screen, as to icons, I believe most work with icon packager
 
Miretank

Miretank

Lurking
Indeed. Use the uxtheme patch, use Styler Toolbar (or Y'Z Toolbar) to change the explorer toolbar buttons, iconpackager and be happy. ;)

Btw, Window Blinds 5 is a very good idea as well. I can say by my own experience that it doesn't consume much of system resources, besides that the skins are alot more useful and prettier than simple VS ones. :)
 
yegosimo

yegosimo

Bug Killer
i tried emulating "Longhorn" in my PC long time ago (when it was called like that) and i found several themes and even a sidebar which i don't use anymore.
i didn't remember the links though :unsure:
but i can email them to you
 
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t0rek

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
If you don't remember them how are you gonna e-mail them to me yegosimo? :O

OK, I guess you are right guys, anyway I can mount the VistaCG theme very easy using the uxtheme patch. However any recomendations of what vista toolbar set should I use for Y'Z or Styler Toolbar? there are hunreds of packs, and I really want a good one, that goes for the icon set for the iconpackager too. Any help would be appreciated

Edit: I didn't expect Y'Z toolbar to run as a background processes suckin 5.5 mb of RAM, so now the question is, where I can download styler toolbar? I tried to google for it without results
 
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smcd

smcd

Active member
Some other alternatives might be Rocket Dock, rk-launcher, mobydock, avedesk, and desktop sidebar. I couldn't track down styler toolbar myself.
http://www.avedesk.org/
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
http://www.mobydock.com/
http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/

as far as i can tell the links are "safe" for emutalk posting. if not it is accidental and please remove ;)

There's also konfabulator/yahoo widgets, kapsules, and samurize...
http://www.samurize.com/modules/news/
http://www.kwidgets.com/
http://www.konfabulator.com/ and/or http://widgets.yahoo.com/
 
blizz

blizz

New member
Jakob said:
stylexp does use more resources than a simple modified uxtheme.dll, but stylexp does more, such as the logon screen and the boot screen, as to icons, I believe most work with icon packager
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There's an option in StyleXP to use as little system resources as possible which cuts out a lot of those options.
 
Doomulation

Doomulation

?????????????????????????
I don't get it - why do people these days care (unless they have a very bad system) about memory usage? With today's computers (and a well built machine), it doesn't matter.
 
WhiteX

WhiteX

New member
I disagree, sometimes when mutitasking, a clean computer with a low memory usage on the desktop makes a difference.
 
Doomulation

Doomulation

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I disagree - if you have a good harddisk, it does not matter. It has never mattered to me. I have never had side effects just because I'm using programs with large memory overhead.
 
WhiteX

WhiteX

New member
Hmm..I´ll test my machine with heavy multitasking and post later, but not now, now it is Brazil vs Croatia, see ya´!
 
WhiteX

WhiteX

New member
Not really, wothout opening a game, i could only hog 355 meg, on a universe of 2 gig, it was not all the imapct i believed it to be.
 
zAlbee

zAlbee

Keeper of The Iron Tail
Yes, it matters. I play World of Warcraft, which will take up as much memory as available. WoW itself never reaches into virtual memory, but it can displace background programs into it. Since I Alt-Tab quite often, I do notice the other programs coming out of virtual memory into RAM, resulting in lots of hard drive thrashing. The less memory it takes up in the first place, the less time this takes, therefore more happyfuntime++.
 
yegosimo

yegosimo

Bug Killer
t0rek said:
If you don't remember them how are you gonna e-mail them to me yegosimo? :O
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i have them on my PC
but w/e ... i think you're not going to like it because it's of the old Longhorn style (Luna theme). it looks like this:
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i just began looking around and i found this "Bricopack" and like it. right now i'm using it, it's cool
http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/es.id.130.htm
(the URL is in spanish)
 
Miretank

Miretank

Lurking
Doom said:
I don't get it - why do people these days care (unless they have a very bad system) about memory usage? With today's computers (and a well built machine), it doesn't matter.
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I go with you, if you have memory, waste it. ;)
I hate StyleXP simply because the excess of crap, and the worst - ugly crap. Today I run my WinXP with WB5 and Styler Toolbar. Window Blinds have a lot more useful features than simple VS - Styler Toolbar is also Windows XP tweaker tool - Iconpackager is not necessary, 'sides there are a lot of softwares that do better work IMO. And I have 512MB. No lags, no slowdowns. :)

'Bout Sidebars... I prefer docks. ;) (Tho the Vista "faded-effect" sidebar is very sexy.)
 
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