PSA: The windows silver theme looks like crap

[MAME]

even though it's better than the default theme, the silver theme also looks like crap. The green start button ruins any appeal it has

I see this theme everywhere: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Cook_1/usb.JPG

 

It's remarkable that with all that money Microsoft can't hire a graphics design team worth a damn. Whoever thought the default blue, green, and red theme with the fugly landscape wallpaper looked good should be shot. Silver is ok, but the green button, holy sh*t that's bad.

Apple > MS

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: dwell
It's remarkable that with all that money Microsoft can't hire a graphics design team worth a damn. Whoever thought the default blue, green, and red theme with the fugly landscape wallpaper looked good should be shot. Silver is ok, but the green button, holy sh*t that's bad.

Apple > MS

in their infinite wisdom, they package 3 themes with XP...SO MANY CHOICES@!

 

[Shawn]

Windows Classic > *

 

[dullard]

Silver theme looks very good for a built in theme.

And this is important for all themes, silver included:

Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu> Select "Auto-hide the taskbar".

Free screenspace, better looking, more useful.

 

[revnja]

Whenever I am stuck with using WinXP, I use the classic GUI. The default XP GUI looks like a Fisher-Price abortion.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: dullard
Silver theme looks very good for a built in theme.

And this is important for all themes, silver included:

Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu> Select "Auto-hide the taskbar".

Free screenspace, better looking, more useful.

BLASHPHEMY! Auto-hide = the lose!

Also, just right click on the task bar > Properties to get there faster 🙂

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: dullard
Silver theme looks very good for a built in theme.

And this is important for all themes, silver included:

Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu> Select "Auto-hide the taskbar".

Free screenspace, better looking, more useful.

Agreed.

 

[chuckywang]

lol, my roommate used that theme.

 

[Bateluer]

I always thought olive green looked the worst. Its fairly easy to match good backgrounds and icons to the silver and blue themes, but I've yet to find one that I though looked good and matched the olive theme.

I ran with StyleXP a while back, but I got tired of it sucking up RAM needlessly.

 

[imported_KirbsAw]

Originally posted by: dullard
Silver theme looks very good for a built in theme.

And this is important for all themes, silver included:

Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu> Select "Auto-hide the taskbar".

Free screenspace, better looking, more useful.

I thought everyone did that, but they don't

 

[imported_Phil]

Might I recommend a quick search for Code Opus theme?

 

[Subterranean Homesick Alien]

That's why the first thing I did was learn how to edit the theme file and recolor the Start button as well as the big cherry red close button and anything else that didn't appeal to my taste.

Example

 

[MetalMat]

I use that theme, but thats cause I dont really give a f*ck about what my desktop looks like.

 

[Tom]

I go with the green theme, at least that way the start button doesn't clash !

 

[middlehead]

My college uses that fugly ass gray crap as the default on all machines 🙁

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: KirbsAw

Originally posted by: dullard
Silver theme looks very good for a built in theme.

And this is important for all themes, silver included:

Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu> Select "Auto-hide the taskbar".

Free screenspace, better looking, more useful.

I thought everyone did that, but they don't

I don't, because I don't have time to sit around waiting for the taskbar to reappear. And it's handy knowing what time it is.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: MAME
Also, just right click on the task bar > Properties to get there faster 🙂

Two clicks either way.

 

[dethman]

silver rules.

 

[Ikonomi]

I use Silver. The default Blue hurts my eyes.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Windows Classic Buttons + Rainy Day color scheme

 

[Leper Messiah]

*cough*royale*cough*

or at least forever blue.

Style XP is horribly inefficent. 18MB of RAM for a frickin' skin?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Subterranean Homesick Alien
That's why the first thing I did was learn how to edit the theme file and recolor the Start button as well as the big cherry red close button and anything else that didn't appeal to my taste.

Example

that actually looks rather nice.

 

[AntaresVI]

I happen to like the new Royale theme.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

waning luna dark >*