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Thanks. Just out of curiosity, is that the only way? Because I've never been a big fan of using window blinds because it seems to eat resources. Although I haven't used any of the newer versions of it. Do they cause any noticable drop in performance?

Edit: and thanks Gary7, I missed your post

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Thanks. Just out of curiosity, is that the only way? Because I've never been a big fan of using window blinds because it seems to eat resources. Although I haven't used any of the newer versions of it. Do they cause any noticable drop in performance?

No. WB 6 used very little resources on my old (and in the meantime retired) PC, and didn't cause a performance hint.

Thanks. Just out of curiosity, is that the only way? Because I've never been a big fan of using window blinds because it seems to eat resources. Although I haven't used any of the newer versions of it. Do they cause any noticable drop in performance?

Edit: and thanks Gary7, I missed your post

That is pretty much the only way. Vista .msstyles are different and much more limited than XP. I wrote a guide on how to convert XP .msstyles, and it appears in the future, we will release a stand-alone converter.

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=147196

WindowBlinds should not have any affect on system performance. That is a thing of the past. Here is a review from Extremetech that takes on that issue.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2219723,00.asp

"A minor resource hogging effect was one of the chief complaints with WindowBlinds 5.x. We ran several performance tests, both synthetic, gaming, and real-world encoding and rendering tests, with and without WindowBlinds 6 installed, and the results of each test were so close to identical that we're not even going to bother running charts. To do so would be an exercise in redundancy."
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