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iceball3

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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1245 on: January 30, 2011, 03:31:58 pm »
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Because the windows vista theme made it harder to play certain games.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1246 on: January 30, 2011, 09:18:04 pm »
IS that theme Windows 95? i remember that...
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1247 on: January 30, 2011, 09:21:34 pm »
Quote from: Zrk2 on January 30, 2011, 09:18:04 pm
IS that theme Windows 95? i remember that...
Ayup. Vista theme was too intensive on my computer. My graphics card is that bad.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1248 on: January 30, 2011, 11:33:41 pm »
damn dude, why even bother to have vista then?
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1249 on: January 30, 2011, 11:34:33 pm »
Looks like the windows classic theme to me.  :P
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1250 on: January 30, 2011, 11:35:33 pm »
Quote from: Tellemurius on January 30, 2011, 11:33:41 pm
damn dude, why even bother to have vista then?
Presumably it was bundled with his computer.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1251 on: January 31, 2011, 02:21:23 am »
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I think you'll find that I have that theme too.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1252 on: January 31, 2011, 06:29:24 am »
Quote from: Tellemurius on January 30, 2011, 11:33:41 pm
damn dude, why even bother to have vista then?
Because I'm awfully too lazy to change the OS with all my stuff in nit and whatnot,
Is the look of stuff really the only differences between OS's?
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1253 on: January 31, 2011, 06:39:05 am »
Vista hogs about a GB of RAM while idling.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1254 on: January 31, 2011, 11:10:40 am »
Quote from: The Merchant Of Menace on January 31, 2011, 06:39:05 am
Vista hogs about a GB of RAM while idling.

That's because it handles the RAM differently. If I remember correctly, instead of trying to use as little as possible, it fetches things it thinks you might need and places it into the RAM beforehand so that in the case you do access it it goes much faster. The OS will gladly let this "prepared" RAM go when a program needs it.

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Quote from: Tellemurius on January 30, 2011, 11:33:41 pm
damn dude, why even bother to have vista then?
Because I'm awfully too lazy to change the OS with all my stuff in nit and whatnot,
Is the look of stuff really the only differences between OS's?

No, it's not. That would be silly.

Anyways, use Windows 7 if you're going to upgrade. Much better.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1255 on: January 31, 2011, 02:06:55 pm »
Anyone know of a dock for Gnome that doesn't have you download a shitton of mono/gtk# libraries (e.g. Docky).
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1256 on: January 31, 2011, 02:10:06 pm »
hes probably lacking some ram so you can
A:buy new ram chips up to 2gb (fast as hell)
B:get a readyboost flash drive to throw some extra memory without blowing out cash (cheaper but slow)
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1257 on: January 31, 2011, 02:14:18 pm »
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Note to self: Clean desktop of unused shortcuts.

I'm also wondering about desktop enhancement programs for XP. I want to make it slightly prettier and more functional but I don't know how much ram it eats up. I like to play Tf2 and I turn off pretty much everything so I can play it with no FPS issues whatsoever, so I don't want yet another thing eating it up. What would you guys recommend?
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1258 on: January 31, 2011, 02:18:23 pm »
WindowsBlinds from our favorite company Stardock can help you with that.
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Re: Bay12's Desktops
« Reply #1259 on: January 31, 2011, 02:23:15 pm »
Quote from: Tellemurius on January 31, 2011, 02:10:06 pm
B:get a readyboost flash drive to throw some extra memory without blowing out cash (cheaper but slow)
Swap memory? You can expand Windows' swap file to as large as you want as long as you have enough disk space. It's in My Computer under Properties I think.

e, Yep, My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance -> Advanced, on Windows XP.
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