Jonathan Downin Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 I just tried WB and DAMN! It is amazing! :woot: I was always just using visual styles with the modded UXTheme thinking windowblinds was just an unneeded pay program, but I decided to give it a try. I am VERY impressed. So many features and the visual results are great, so I bought it. Just commenting. Enjoy! :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBear5587 Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Heh, glad you like it :D I've been using it for some time now, and it sure does rock. I'm currently running the "Pix OS" suite from Pixtudio - which is equally amazing! Check it out Screenshot Schnitzel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik holmer Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 There we go! That's one who has "realized" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Downin Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Pic is a little small there Schnitzel. Can you tell me where I can get that style? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik holmer Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 It's a paysuite by Pixtudio http://www.pixtudio.com. Really nice actually! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutex Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Pic is a little small there Schnitzel. Can you tell me where I can get that style? It part of the premium suites from PixStudio. :) Edit: Oh, you beat me to it Erik! lol. :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Downin Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Oh wow, you have to pay for these suites!? Are they really that good??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Windowblinds rocks. I have been an Object Desktop subscriber for a couple of years and owned Windowblinds for a while before that. It's definitely worth the investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutex Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Oh wow, you have to pay for these suites!? Are they really that good??? Only a few, but they usually include the wbskin, incons, walls, and a bunch of other goodies. Here's another link to some more "premium" suites by SkinPlanet & stardock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger_my_passion Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Tried PixOS and didn't like it. SoftCrystal is nice and it's free. http://www.pixtudio.com/library.php?pagenb=1&cat=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Downin Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Yeah, I was thinking about going for PixOS but it seems a little buzy... I'll check out SoftCrystal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xer34 Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 personally i hate everything stardock.. i dont like the idea of crap running in the backround.. and to me their visual styles look like crap half the time.. IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redestium Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 personally i hate everything stardock.. i dont like the idea of crap running in the backround.. and to me their visual styles look like crap half the time.. IMO Then you must be using Windows Classic all the time and have the theme service disabled right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Xer34 that's great, it's nice to hear your opinon. Now all of the others here know that you're opinion sucks and we can just ignore everything you say from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 personally i hate everything stardock.. i dont like the idea of crap running in the backround.. and to me their visual styles look like crap half the time.. IMO ok, everyone is entitled to their own opinons and all .. but if you use msstyles .. you have **** running in the background using a lot more mem than WB... it's called svchost.exe, you should check it out sometimes .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linsook Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 classic rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kona Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 it's called svchost.exe, you should check it out sometimes .. usually it's called "stylexpservice" not svchost. Correct me if I'm wrong but Scvhost is a windows XP process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memNOC Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 you have **** running in the background using a lot more mem than WB... that's a myth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecaveman Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 also Windows Blinds is supposed to take less CPU as it does not constantly redraw the skins. You really must try making some WB skins with "always on top" and such buttons, then you'll get much more featured titlebars, without Windows Blinds you would have to run seperate program to show always on top and such... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 personally i hate everything stardock.. i dont like the idea of crap running in the backround.. and to me their visual styles look like crap half the time.. IMO Of course that is your opinion and you are entitled to it....but that wasn't the point of this thread. I have been a loyal WB user since the early 3.x days and just love. To me it is the single best program I have invested in. If you love WB now...just wait for ver 4.3 to be released. It is got some great new features being added to it. If you are looking for a great WB theme that isn't busy and looks professional...I suggest trying the watercolor theme by Binary or if you are a OS X fan then try the OS X theme by Xero. There are loads of great looking WB themes if you look for them... a good place to start is wincustomize: Link And to Xer34.....just remember that there is A LOT of crappy looking visual styles out there also. So don't just bash WB based upon what some authors create. Plus your reason about the wbload.exe being an extra resource in the background is incorrect. Wbload is used instead of the theme service running. So if you use the theme service (which is combination of the uxtheme.dll and svchost.exe) then you are using around 5-6 MB of resources. When you disable the theme service and use wbload.exe you use about 2 MB of resources. usually it's called "stylexpservice" not svchost. Correct me if I'm wrong but Scvhost is a windows XP process. That process is pnly running if you use the stylexp program. Which if you do use it is running on top of the theme service. So you are actually running two theme services and using extra resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetruth Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 ok, everyone is entitled to their own opinons and all .. but if you use msstyles .. you have **** running in the background using a lot more mem than WB... it's called svchost.exe, you should check it out sometimes .. I just switched to WB 4.2 (from styleXP 2.x), I didn't un-install styleXP, before installing WB I switched the style back to windows classic, then disabled the themes service, and did an install. WB seems to be slightly faster but i wanted to make sure i have it optimized. I still have 4 svchost.exe's running... should i be concerned? thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 I just switched to WB 4.2 (from styleXP 2.x), I didn't un-install styleXP, before installing WB I switched the style back to windows classic, then disabled the themes service, and did an install. WB seems to be slightly faster but i wanted to make sure i have it optimized. I still have 4 svchost.exe's running... should i be concerned? thanks, svchost.exe is a general win32 process that XP uses to control a lot of services. I actually have 5 of them running on my machine....nothing to be too concerned with. Although, you should go through your active services and disable the ones you know you won't use. You can free up resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecaveman Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Please do not get confused like kona does! If you use the TaskManager included with Windows, it does not give you accurate informations about your running processess. You must download for example CurrProcess if you want to see what is really running on your system. Kona when you use styleXP it adds the stylexpservice on top of the other processess that does all the skinning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetruth Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Thanks for the replies. Can't wait for 4.3... Now we just need to get Dangeruss, Honz, and Aleksandr to skin again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Downin Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Reducing windows to just the title bar and then restoring is revolutionizing the way I work. VERY NICE! This should be in Windows to begin with. Isn't this in Mac OS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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