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  • R realJSOP

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    ednrgc
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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.

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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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        PIEBALDconsult
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        Classic... the Harley Davidson of themes.

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          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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          El Corazon
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          I always did prefer silver...

          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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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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            Pete OHanlon
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            I'm waiting for the bling version.

            the last thing I want to see is some pasty-faced geek with skin so pale that it's almost translucent trying to bump parts with a partner - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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              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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                  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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                    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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                      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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                          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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