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?
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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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'm on XP and use the visual styles but prefer the classic control panel to categorized and it also took me a while to get used to the personalized start menu but switched to it eventually. I stop the themes service on one of my machines to save RAM and also tend to use classic if I'm stuck with a low resolution display to save screen space.
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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?
Four XP and one Vista boxes, all classic.
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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?
Work - Classic theme on XP Home - Aero on Vista Vista Classic doesn't look as nice, XP Classic is easily the best!
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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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 7 x64 in classic mode! :) (Core2Duo 2.5 Ghz, 4 GB RAM) Although I have a 24" screen, the Aero taskbar and title bars just take up way too much space imho. :thumbsdown: I am also using the "classic" taskbar (no grouping, small icons) but I hate the classic start menu, the new one with the search box is superior in every way.
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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?
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
What theme do you use, and what color scheme?
I use Aero in blue. Why? Because it actually runs faster! If you have the graphics hardware to support Aero Windows will use hardware acceleration. If you switch to Classic then it won't user hardware acceleration, so it slows down, even although there is less to do.
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
What version of Windows are you running?
Vista as I type - Windows 7 on my other desktop, and Windows Vista on my laptop.
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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 the Royale Remixed Theme on XP http://oddbasket.deviantart.com/art/Royale-Remixed-44294818[^] Does not eat any more resources than standard visual styles and gives you a - sort of - Vista look
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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?
Using it with XP in very begining when crisis of shorter memory, but this days... Vista with Aero in Black at work. and Seven with Aero in Dark Blue at home. Works fine. ;) Never imagine to use classic.
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+1 for XP in classic mode Rainy day theme and a mainly black custom wallpaper that a friend drew
Man, I miss Rainy Day. So easy on the eyes.
Mike Devenney
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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'm stuck on Windows 3.11 with the Hot Dog Stand color scheme. :laugh: At home I'm fighting with my nvidia 7900 trying to get it to play nice with Win7 64-bit and haven't had time to play much with the themes. I do like the theme called Environments (I think).
Mike Devenney
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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("Classic"), and I get rid of the annoying dog in the windows explorer. I wonder how many people attended the meeting to decide on the dog?
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I only use Windows for Workgroups for every day stuff (boot in 1 seconds! :-)) I run Vista in a Virtual Machine if I need it (game, other) Muhahahaha!....
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I'm beginning to think that the only reason you run WfW is to brag about it here :-) C'mon, what about the platter? 5Meg? 20" diameter? Is your monitor maybe a 50x30 bastard child of a lite-bright and an electronic battleship? Seriously, living off residuals must be nice-nice. What software do you run on that thang, anyway? Peace, y'all :-) bmac
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I'm beginning to think that the only reason you run WfW is to brag about it here :-) C'mon, what about the platter? 5Meg? 20" diameter? Is your monitor maybe a 50x30 bastard child of a lite-bright and an electronic battleship? Seriously, living off residuals must be nice-nice. What software do you run on that thang, anyway? Peace, y'all :-) bmac
bmac wrote:
I'm beginning to think that the only reason you run WfW is to brag about it here
You are so very perceptive young padawan! :-D
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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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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_Damian S_ wrote:
XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme
Me too.
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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?
XP x64 SP2 with Classic appearance * custom theme that is all Tahoma 8 with Title Bars at 16px high to put taskbar icons at tiny size (just above infinitesimal) to maximize the number of taskbar buttons that can fit on its vert, LHS placement (with the excellent 'taskbar shuffle' for reordering). Consolas 9 for UltraEdit & occasional VS.NET. ClearType, nofx and no sounds whatsoever. Rig is q6600, 8GB, 2x RAID0 500GB 7200 (only 15% full) + 1.5 GB Media & old-schoo SyncMaster 213T that is just gorgeous (if only I had 5 more) run off a nice cheap Radeon 1550. All run on a Micro ATX Intel JO mobo -- no snickering! Willing to move to Server 08 on/as HyperV + tons of XP x86 baseline VMs w/ diff combos of SQL Server, Oracle, VS.NET -- base XP image update workflows will be a beotch, tho, so I'm content for now. Well, as content as I can be without 4 or 5 128GB SSDs in RAID5 w/ a dedicated RAID card running under a pair of 3GHz i7 hexacore chips at full-on 6.4 QPI pipe. But that's only temporary until the main volume is a RAID0 bank of ACard 48GB RAM drives. Then I might be able to parse, process, crossref and regenerate the freakin Microsoft SDK docs for the FCL/BCL and lang specs -- to my visual preferences with each class and member list on the same dam page with individual page settings for which sections are closed and open and presented in inheritance order with no 1.5" bs header. Then, maybe I can get some work done. Was that more than you wanted? Sorry, nerd hyperjealousy overtook me after seeing Super Lloyd boast his prowess in running Windows for Workgroups. Nerd love to all.