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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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    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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      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)

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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.

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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.

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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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              Kizul Emeraldfire
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              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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              • 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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                W Balboos GHB
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                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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                • 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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                  XP, classic theme, no visual effects, tuned for performance, black wallpaper (wallpaper :laugh: ). The reason? Damn slow PC I got :)

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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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                    Plamen Dragiyski
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                    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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                    • A Anton Afanasyev

                      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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                      Rocky Moore
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                      Hmmm.. Will have to try that! Shinny.. Shinny..

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