Anyone still use the Classic appearance? [modified]
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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.
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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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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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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?
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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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?
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)
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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, 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.
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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 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.
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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 this computer, Windows XP SP3 with the Windows Classic appearance. Was also using the Windows Classic color scheme, but changed it to Rainy Day after someone else in this thread mentioned it. :) On my OWN computer (this one I'm currently using is a shared comp), I've also got Windows XP SP3 with the Windows Classic appearance, but I use my own colorful Desktop Themes on it — they match the astrological signs/colors and stuff, an I change them every month to match the current astrological month. :) If people were interested in them I'd link to them, but unfortunately the site I hosted them on is dead. :(
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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?
Classic on my home XP boxes (3); Classic on my Office XP box. No Vista/Win7 at either location. I do change my background picture.
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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?
In our office we were use classic. At home, lovely XP Style. But I changed my bootscreen to windows98 bootscreen, just to not forget where it all started! :laugh:
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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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Hmmm.. Will have to try that! Shinny.. Shinny..
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