desktop customization softwares

[Nerva]

what do you guys use? do you have screen shots? how much resources do each of these programs use up?

 

[acemcmac]

I got a hack from softpedia called XP Royale... It gives windows XP the theme from XP Media Center, which I am quite fond of. Zero extra overhead beyond the regular windows blue theme.

 

[potato28]

Widgets

 

[Nerva]

what else are there? what's this blackbox shell? anyone here has any experience with that?

 

[Goosemaster]

linux? 😉

royale is definitely a great start, yahoo widgets, yzdock, wincustomzie etc...

 

[GhettoFob]

uxtheme.dll multipatcher

 

[imported_LoKe]

Ubuntu.

Oh...wait... =D

 

[suicidalpigeon]

For windows, I use stylesXP and Object Docks. Linux...err...Ubuntu and Fedora Core 5?

 

[Nerva]

ok i am primarily a windows xp user. i have tried some before, and found that they hog memory like crazy. is there a program that is balanced between usability and resource conservation?

 

[duragezic]

Uxtheme.dll patched is a quick way for a decent visual boost. There's some nice visual styles out there (I'm using CodeOpus right now) on deviantart and customize.org as well as tons of others. I dont think it uses any more memory than the standard XP visual style.

Litestep was good but I havent used it in many many years. This will require a lot more time probably. Otherwise there is a dockbar like yzdock and konfabulator has a lot of widgets.

 

[Ika]

Object Desktop software seems to work well, though they do seem to be sort of resource-hoggish. They're also not free...

 

[Nerva]

Originally posted by: duragezic
Uxtheme.dll patched is a quick way for a decent visual boost. There's some nice visual styles out there (I'm using CodeOpus right now) on deviantart and customize.org as well as tons of others. I dont think it uses any more memory than the standard XP visual style.

Litestep was good but I havent used it in many many years. This will require a lot more time probably. Otherwise there is a dockbar like yzdock and konfabulator has a lot of widgets.

what exacly is uxtheme?

 

[madeupfacts]

i use a wallpaper

 

[jbkane26]

http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.130.htm this any good?

 

[duragezic]

Originally posted by: 3cho

Originally posted by: duragezic
Uxtheme.dll patched is a quick way for a decent visual boost. There's some nice visual styles out there (I'm using CodeOpus right now) on deviantart and customize.org as well as tons of others. I dont think it uses any more memory than the standard XP visual style.

Litestep was good but I havent used it in many many years. This will require a lot more time probably. Otherwise there is a dockbar like yzdock and konfabulator has a lot of widgets.

what exacly is uxtheme?

first google link 🙂
Then just search for 'visual styles' or anything like that to get ones to use. Theres quite a few good sites out there with ranked visual styles. I extract mine to c:\windows\resources\themes\ though you can do it anywhere and double-click the .theme or .msstyles files