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  • L Lost User

    Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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    Chris Losinger
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    classic. default colors. classic folders, detail view. looks like Win98. so what. i don't have any use for a UI that wants to be the star of the show

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      • L Lost User

        Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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        Lost User
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        Classic, less space taken up by the theme that way with a desktop colour of r=66, g=0, b=99.

        The tigress is here :-D

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        • L Lost User

          Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          Classic... the Harley Davidson of themes.

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          • L Lost User

            What: XP Theme / Silver Why: Gives me the eye candy without the Fisher Price look & feel.

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            El Corazon
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            I always did prefer silver...

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            • L Lost User

              Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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              Pete OHanlon
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              I'm waiting for the bling version.

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              • L Lost User

                What: XP Theme / Silver Why: Gives me the eye candy without the Fisher Price look & feel.

                "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." - Stephen Hawking

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                Ashley van Gerven
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                Ditto. Silver rocks!

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                • D David Wulff

                  Why does it need to look modern? It's a computer, not an iPod.


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                  MatrixCoder
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                  True, I never thought of that.


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                  • L Lost User

                    Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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                    Shog9 0
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                    Classic. Default color scheme. Because it's reasonably fast and stays out of my way. I used to use Watercolor, but got tired of patching uxthemes, so now i just don't bother. And yeah, way to go MS, requiring binary patched system files for 3rd-party themes. I could understand, maybe, if the system-supplied theme wasn't so gaudy and useless... but this just screams "we don't have a plan! or a clue! or a UI designer who doesn't spend his days watching Tellytubbies!" :^)

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                    • L Lost User

                      Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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                      Anton Afanasyev
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                      Watercolor Lite, with Silver color theme. Thats the one that was planned for XP before MS came up with the bulky blue/silver/greeney_weird XP theme. Looks more or less like the old style win98, but..better. IMO.


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                      • L Lost User

                        Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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                        Roger Wright
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                        Classic, absolutely. The cutesy XP Fisher-Price interface is for toddlers.

                        "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                          Which theme do you use in Windows, XP or Classic? Which color scheme do you use? Why do you use the one you use?

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                          Rocky Moore
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                          Currently running Vista Aero which I like much better, but back in the day when I was on XP it was: http://www.themexp.org/preview.php?mid=377&name=OSXP+102+UPDATE.zip[^] :)

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                          • S Shog9 0

                            Classic. Default color scheme. Because it's reasonably fast and stays out of my way. I used to use Watercolor, but got tired of patching uxthemes, so now i just don't bother. And yeah, way to go MS, requiring binary patched system files for 3rd-party themes. I could understand, maybe, if the system-supplied theme wasn't so gaudy and useless... but this just screams "we don't have a plan! or a clue! or a UI designer who doesn't spend his days watching Tellytubbies!" :^)

                            ---- I just want you to be happy; That's my only little wish...

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                            Dan Neely
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                            Shog9 wrote:

                            this just screams "we don't have a plan! or a clue! or a UI designer who doesn't spend his days watching Tellytubbies!"

                            I always assumed it was the Eldrich purple horror myself.

                            -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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