WindowBlinds Sluggishness

[Rhombuss]

I'm running version 3.1a on both my systems. A PIII@600, and a PIII@966. Both systems running WinXP and using the WinXP "start menu/taskbar" thing. I'm using the SETI Green skin found at www.wincustomize.com - and the skin works perfectly on the PIII@600 system. But for some reason (on the PIII@966) system, when I click the start button using the WinXP version of startmenu, it becomes very sluggish. As if it was burning a CD or running some memory intensive program. It doesn't seem to make sense, as both machines are running the same OS, the same Windowblind version, and the same skin. The faster system seems to be having problems generating the skinned WinXP startmenu, not entirely sure why.

Any thoughts?

 

[Rhombuss]

Hmm...any suggestions?

 

[Rhombuss]

Anybody out there...?

 

[QTPie]

uninstall it. I used to have it b4. But it took too much system resources. If you're a real geek, you don't need that girlie stuff. Anyone disagrees?

 

[alisajid]

I'm not sure about the "real geek" business, but for me it was way too much of a hog to keep around. As it is the Windows GUI has become slower over the years, why throw on another questionable enhancement on it to slow it down further?

 

[sandorski]

The default Windows look sucks. I haven't used Windows Blinds, but if you like custom windows/desktops and things, try StyleXP or Litestep(sites down right now, so you'll have to look hard for it).

 

[Rhombuss]

Actually, I think I figured out the problem. I just needed a good defrag session, had forgotten to do it for about 2 months now .

I prefer customizing the look of Windows, not that I'm a geek or anything, I'm just using it for the same reason people love KDE, Gnome and Enlightenment for Linux. And Windowblinds doesn't take that much resource power, ideally, it shouldn't be any slower than the stock GUI. I've been using Windowblinds for 2 years now, and haven't found that it consumed too much processing power.

Sandorski:

I've seen some articles about Litestep, but haven't tried it myself. Do you think it's a good GUI interface? I get the impression that Litestep tries to make Windows into an Enlightenment/KDE looking GUI, in which case I would not use Windows at all to save me one extra pathway .

 

[sandorski]

Yes and no. Litestep is whatever the theme maker makes it. Some themes are KDE or Gnome like, some are Windows like, and others are just unique. If you want to try it out, make a new XP user and play around with it on that user.