Anyone still use the Classic appearance? [modified]
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
On XP, where the default theme was garish and useless, it made sense to just disable it. On Windows 7, they took the time to make it more than just bad eye candy. I don't even use Classic on the 8-year-old laptop in the corner, as Basic works just fine.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
yup, the best for performance, and there are clients that keep using xp because of its performance. I always set the classic appearance on each computer I touch, to help it run faster. Vista sux so why wasting resources u want to keep ready for apps... even the few times I've used vista, I configured it with classic appearance.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
I still use the Classic appearance. Running on a Mac with Vista in a VMware Fusion window .. The shiny aero interface is somewhat slow in a fusion window and doesn't really make sense anyhow .. so disabled it and ran with Classic instead.
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
spend thousands more for the hardware to run it
Come on now.. This is not an Apple! :) Seriously, $50 graphic cards work fine, along with cheap old AMD 64 3800 X2 and 4 GB of RAM. I am on W7, but my dedicated server is running Win2008, but it is in classic mode with Terminal Services.. I miss the shinny things when I have to use it :)
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I believe you can enable all the shininess for Win2008, and when connecting over RDP from Vista and above, it will render all the shinines. I think Aero will even have transparencies if the graphics card on the client supports it.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
Windows XP, standard aka "Classic":cool:
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
i have had to revert to the classic theme on vista, because I kept getting a very annoying "atikmdag display driver has stopped responding" error message. this usually led to my machine crashing. this would only occur when using extended desktop. i eventually figured out that if i yank out the second monitor in time, the machine wouldn't crash, but I would have to restart in case I wanted to use the second monitor later on. a couple of my colleagues were experiencing the same issue, and after hundreds of combined google searches and articles read, i came across a suggestion to change my theme from aero to classic. i thought it sounded a little ridiculous, but it was an easy enough fix to try without doing anything to compromise anything on my machine. lo and behold, i have not had a single crash in 4 weeks, where before i would have 3/4 a day. (one of my colleagues also changed to classic theme, and she is in the same boat with no crashes for weeks.)
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
I run Aero, for the glass effects. My computer can support it on Vista, and I've not noticed any slowdown. It's very nice, and I'm somewhat of a magpie - attracted to shiny stuff.
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it
There might be some discrepancy in exchange rates, but I spent £300 and got Vista Home Premium, with a computer capable of running it. That's nowhere near 'thousands'. I run Vista Ultimate at the moment - the company shipping my computer to me messed up big time, and I got quite a bit of compensation. I spent most of it on an upgrade.
OSDev :)
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
Yapp, on my Toshiba NB200 netbook (Intel Atom 1.66 GHz, 1 Gb RAM, Intel 945 videocard) and on my working machine (Pentium IV 3 GHz, 1.5 Gb RAM, video - Intel 82915G/GV/910GL) I use "Best Performance" settings. On my home machine (AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600+, 3Gb RAM, GeForce 9600 GT) I use Windows 7 with Aero and Mint Linux with Compiz enabled.
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i use Classic on my XP boxes. i use Aero on all my Vista boxes.
XP Classic both home and at work, but with custom image on the background.
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XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme, except the background colour on the desktop is that greeny-blue colour rather than blue.
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+1 for XP in classic mode Rainy day theme and a mainly black custom wallpaper that a friend drew
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
At work XP default. While I won't rush out for "pretty", I hate the drab and dull grey of the pre-XP era. With Vista, Aero enabled and the glass tinged to a slight blue, although I use the classic menu views. Work machine is 2yo now, 4GB RAM, 2.6GHz C2D, yada yada yada, home machine is a MacBook Pro (bootcamped Vista)
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XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme, except the background colour on the desktop is that greeny-blue colour rather than blue.
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I've actually switched to silver at work (with slightly reduced title bar size) to discover theme-related problems earlier. Switched at home too, soon after.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
I still use parts of the classic theme. Most of my partners at work converted their machines back to XP in liew of VISTA. Everybody in my shop got new 64 bit computers except me. Why I don't know but it really doesn't matter because my present machine does everything I need. Newer technology is not always the answer. As programmers we face this issue every day. Customers always seem to want the latest gimmick whether it makes sense or not. We have to remember that getting does not mean we are a better programmer/person. It is the person inside of you that makes use of what he has.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
I use the MS Royale theme under XP. I ran Classic for years but tried Royale and didn't notice any particular speed decrease so stuck with it. One thing I really don't get under Vista (and probably Weven) is why the close and other title bar buttons are no longer full height. It just makes them harder to hit with a mouse.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
At the moment our mainstream systems are a mixture of XP, Vista, 7, Win2k3 and Win2k8. Of those, the only ones running the "everything is a grey box" theme are the servers (on which the Themes service is disabled by default, so changing it is a bit of a hassle and doesn't seem to work over RDP anyway). I never got the appeal of the so-called "Classic" them. Although Win95/NT4.0 were a huge step forward in usability over Win 3.11, I always thought the default (and only) theme was butt-ugly so I've never had the hankering for it that some have. On the other hand, the default XP theme (Luna) is ghastly too - I very rapidly replaced it with something more aesthetic. Vista and 7 are far better in that regard. All I've done on those machines is change the wallpaper, generally.
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With all the Areo and Glass themes that people rush to spend 300 bucks for, and spend thousands more for the hardware to run it, I am curious to know how many people out there still use the Classic theme. I am especially curious to know how many use Classic on Vista or Seven. What theme do you use, and what color scheme? What version of Windows are you running?
On XP & Vista I use the same modified XP Silver Appearance, plain dusky blue green background and more or less the same stuff on the desktop - computer, rubbish bin, documents, development folder, Zstuff (folder of links to stuff I'm currently working on), Zapples (folder of frequently used program links), in task bar there's search and desktop toolbars. Still working on making Win 7 bend to my will. Basically I drive from Desktop Toolbar chevron (that's why they're "Zapples" & "Zstuff"), and System Tray.
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