Poll: Do you use the fading effects of Windows 2000?

[ProviaFan]

The alpha blending also has the capability to make a window with a constant amount of translucency. This means that if you drag it over your desktop, it will sorta show through what's underneath it. I've experimented with this a little in Visual Basic, but have never come across any commercial apps that use it, aside from WindowFX et al who apply the effects to other windows of your choice.

 

[HansHurt]

lol, yep I do....I'll get tired of it soon I am sure.

 

[acronym]

"The shadow on the pointer was one of the many reasons why I upgraded" ??
I hope bill gates isn't reading this thread

 

[obiwaynekenobi]

the fading is a "neat" feature but I'm a cpu junkie I've turned it off becuase I want the CPU cycles..
no matter how minor

 

[Pyxis]

Nope

 

[DefRef]

I tried WindowFX but it ran like poo on the work machine I was running at the time AND the translucent menus drove me nuts! I don't want to see the stuff below the menu shining through. It makes it too hard to see the menu.

Otherwise, I have the default fade/shadow stuff on. It's nice and the occasional times the pointer goes "Vegas" is cool.

 

[mackstann]

i just downloaded windowfx and its really cool...

 

[unghole]

It's nice at first, but then gets annoying. I don't use it now.

 

[Dan]

I don't use it.

 

[tigerbait]

yep

 

[dave127]

i use them...for some reason when i go back to using no fading it feels like there's something missing

 

[monto]

i use fading

 

[Imported]

Have them both off.. Seems like no point to have them on, and they waste my precious RC5 cycles!