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Anyone still use the Classic appearance? [modified]

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  • C CaptainSeeSharp

    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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    Gandalf_TheWhite
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    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.

    Believe Yourself™ :-\™

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    • R Russell Jones

      +1 for XP in classic mode Rainy day theme and a mainly black custom wallpaper that a friend drew

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      Mike Devenney
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      Man, I miss Rainy Day. So easy on the eyes.

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      • C CaptainSeeSharp

        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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        Sidneys1
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        I run Vista Home Premium, but if I feel the "need for speed" I'll turn on classic. I NEVER use Vista Basic. Have a nice day, ~Sidneys1

        Always trying to help, Sidneys1

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        • C CaptainSeeSharp

          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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          Mike Devenney
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          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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          • C CaptainSeeSharp

            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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            billatcooper
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            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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            • S Super Lloyd

              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!....

              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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              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

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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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                Super Lloyd
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                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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                • _ _Damian S_

                  XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme, except the background colour on the desktop is that greeny-blue colour rather than blue.

                  I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! Booger Mobile (n) - A bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - our entry into the Camp Quality esCarpade!! Do something wonderful - make a donation to Camp Quality today!!

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                  Hooga Booga
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                  _Damian S_ wrote:

                  XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme

                  Me too.

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                  • C CaptainSeeSharp

                    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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                    bmac
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                    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.

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                    • _ _Damian S_

                      XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme, except the background colour on the desktop is that greeny-blue colour rather than blue.

                      I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! Booger Mobile (n) - A bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - our entry into the Camp Quality esCarpade!! Do something wonderful - make a donation to Camp Quality today!!

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                      John A Mason
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                      WinXP: At first I did classic. THen I learned how to hack and then built my own themes so I can have a black taskbar, black borders, title bar etc (ok... black with a fade of gray) and then maroon start menu, etc. etc. I like my custom theme. And the only reason why I have it is I had some time to spare 4 years ago. Linux Boxes: CLASSIC (can we say, text! console! =) ) Ubuntu desktop: Didn't care. I spend too much time at work to worry about what the home computer looks like. I only use it check email and to work from home on my work systems. So, who cares?

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                      • C CaptainSeeSharp

                        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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                        CDMTJX
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                        My work PC actually has requirements; its set for me. One of the apps I need to run *requires* classic or it won't run. We reported this, and never heard back on a fix. I'd never heard of such a requirement before...

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                        • C CaptainSeeSharp

                          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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                          Dan Suthar
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                          Classic theme is the best performer.I use it on my xp machines and on seven its aero.No place for vista. :)

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                          • C CaptainSeeSharp

                            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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                            Euhemerus
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                            I use Windows 7 and prefer the new aero look. However, I also use XP in classic theme mode and also use, and prefer Windows NT Workstation in Virtual PC. If I could have Windows NT up and running on new hardware I'd dump Windows 7. NT is blisteringly fast even running in a virtual machine, because it hasn't got all the bloat, bells & whistles that comes with all the later windows versions.

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                            • C CaptainSeeSharp

                              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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                              Battlehammer
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                              I just got a new pc at work with Vista and left everything at default settings. I have an XP pc at home and a Vista lap top, both set with defaults.

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                              • C CaptainSeeSharp

                                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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                                Rachel Mant
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                                I run XP SP2, no win updates, with Window Blinds installed and the Ares theme running.... very easy on the eyes for those who use their computers in dark (ish) environments. I also run Ubuntu in dual boot on the same box, using one of the dark themes. no Vista or Seven, though if I were to get either, they'd be WB'ed and Ares'd as it's a nice theme, and does not need a really powerful graphics card.

                                The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON

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                                • C CaptainSeeSharp

                                  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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                                  Alan Burkhart
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                                  I rather like the Aero Glass look, but in any apps I write for myself I always stick with old-style file dialogs, menus, etc. Overall, I like the old look better. And I utterly DESPISE "The Ribbon."

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                                  • C CaptainSeeSharp

                                    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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                                    8xFather
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                                    I run classic on Vista Ultimate using a quad core, 4 gigs ram, 1 gig video card and dual monitors. It's just easier for me to find what I want. All the fluff just gets in my way, doesn't get used and slows me down. That's why I still think Win 2K was the best business OS. I also have 6 XP Pro machines running classic.

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                                    • C CaptainSeeSharp

                                      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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                                      Indrora
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                                      to be completely honest, I have learned to embrace the XP styling engine. I'm using an extremely light theme called 74 (yeah, thats the entire name) and more often than not on my laptops I run FourMinusTwo (an extremely light theme, of which I cannot remember the name) on my windows 7 machines its either glass or classic (running as black a theme as I can with as green a text as I can)

                                      ---- Morgan Gangwere Lead programmer, Unknown Software "Pinky, are you thinking what im thinking?" "I Dunno brain, how many licks DOES it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" "You want me to calculate that? or should we take over the world?" "ooh! OooooOOOooH! lets find out!"

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                                      • C CaptainSeeSharp

                                        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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                                        Noel Paricollo 2
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                                        XP, with classic settings. Standard colour scheme, except the background colour for appplications: a pale light blue rather than white. (I don't like Aero and the white background burn my eyes). At the Office: AMD64Athlon X2, various hard disks, 3GbRAM, Vista Ultimate SP1 My Notebook Intel Centrino, 160Gb, 2GbRAM Windows 7 Prof.

                                        NoelPV2

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                                        • C CaptainSeeSharp

                                          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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                                          LloydA111
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                                          I still use the classic theme. Mainly because its not something else that is going to slow the machine down. :laugh: I have XP, 1Ghz proccessor and 1GB of ram.

                                          If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused... FreeDOS - An open source modern MS-DOS/PC-DOS replacement.

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