visualprefs type thing for windows?

[cycloid]

i'm sick of windows being boring looking (no "get another os" answers please i have 4 computers already!) and want to skin it a little. the "appearance" prefs are a bit limiting especially since one can only choose the color of "3d objects" and it auto generates the highlight/shadow color cos i'd like to have a single solid border around stuff generating a chunky feel rather than a same-old pretend 3d feel. thoughts? anyone on windowblinds? (98se) does it really clog the system up? etc.

[AmigaPete]

I tried WindowBlinds (can't remember which version, if any) on my K62/400 running Win2K (17" monitor @ 1280x1024 16M colours) and I didn't notice a drastic bogging down. But then, I don't do anything too intense like first-person-perspective shoot-em-ups and the like. It does make things look very XPish, but in the end I uninstalled it because I generally prefer a simple looking interface without all the "fluff". The least you could do is try it out first, there should be a demo or you could (rubs hand over mouth saying something about getting it somewhere on the net and trying before buying).

Pete

[Wolfe]

Visualprefs for windows?

No Windows please are my prefs.   :-D

[StevenJGore]

WindowsBlinds doesn't clog up systems, as far as I know. I used it briefly with Windows 2000 and didn't notice any slowdowns or side-effects.

There are hundreds of sites where you can get WindowsBlinds themes, but I've found that by far the best quality ones are at DeviantART.

Steve.

[bloodline]

There arn't any really good themes for it though :-(

There is a MacOS one which is quite good and Amiga2 is good. But ther are glitches and the bottun dont behve correctly.

I tried to make a theme once but got boged down... and gave up... what was I making? um.. an AOS1.3 theme for my Win2K box...  and?

[cycloid]

ok, found what i was looking for, it's called 3d color changer  (3DCC) and does pretty much what i wanted, i.e. give you full controll over the palette inc higlinght/shadow colors, i've also found something called eppidesktop which lets you replace system gadgets (inc the start button) with bitmaps, but i havent played with that yet

[Amiga1200PPC]

Is this website called windows.org or amiga.org you idiot !?

[Karlos]

Wishmaster wrote:
Is this website called windows.org or amiga.org you idiot !?

That's a bit harsh. Plenty of us have PCs that run Winblows and given how many of us tend to be into personalising our amiga desktops, I'd say it was as good a place as any to ask.

[that_punk_guy]

Wishmaster wrote:
Is this website called windows.org or amiga.org you idiot !?

Is this forum called Alternative Operating Systems or bash the Windows user you idiot !?

[Karlos]

Quite.

[that_punk_guy]

Sorry, all my subtlety seems to have gone out of the window. :-?

Regarding themes, I did have WindowBlinds installed for a while. It was nearly impossible to make it look non-crap so I uninstalled it. But I was pleasantly surprised at the performance.

[cycloid]

just to clarify

1. i have an amiga
2. i use viaualprefs + fullpalette on it
3. i wanted to know if anyone knew of anything similar for windows

= where the fork else could i ask such a question!?


anyway, eppiedesktop, which replaces the help,min,max,restore,close,start menu and scroll arrow "gadgets" works a treat, it apparently just patches the image pointer table in memory in a cunning psudeo amigan fashion, unfortunatley it does not support a few other gads, such as the resize gadget,check boxes etc (apparently there are other "patches" that do, though) and i cant figure out if/how to do transparency. but it works and because it's a hack as opposed to a task it doesnt crash, heh!

anyway stuff like this can be found and rated at virtualplastic.net if anyone feels forced to use windows but likes to discuise it :-)

[restore2003]

Try stylexp:

http://www.tgtsoft.com/

Its not as memory or cpu hungry as windowblinds, and there are hundreds(maybe thousands) of different themes available

[cecilia]

windows isn't good enough to bother making it "look" better, but people should do whatever they like with a system they spent money on!

so....here is one thing windows IS good for

this is a flash anim, so some amiga browsers will not like it.

but, for all you musicians out in da house! enjoy the joke!
 :lol:

[Amiga1200PPC]

@punk_guy

you got me.

I guess this forum is called Alternative Operating Systems for idiots ! ;-)

But Windblows is not alternative for me !