want xp to look like vista?

by **KorkyKat** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:56 pm

I bought a new Dell with Vista Home something or other. It lasted one week before I went out and bought XP to match that in my Toshiba laptop.

I now have blistering fast perfomance on the Dell with XP and have no intention of going down the Pista Vista route. Kabuntu or Ubuntu and other Linux O/S are the way forward.

Seriously, why on earth do you need a clock on the side bar as well as one on the task bar as well as the one on your wrist and the one on the wall?

Oh man, we are losing the plot. Do I really want to know what the weather is when all I got to do is look through the window. Do I really need dials to tell me how my cpu is performing. It's either dead, slow, dead slow or dead fast.

by **paulmt** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:04 pm

I'm kind of the same, not really into eye candy just for the sake of it, I would rather have good functionality. But this is OK, I do like the blue glowy buttons along the toolbar, and the cleaner look, so I will stay with it for now

by **james.faction** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:27 pm

yeah I went and installed the Vista Transformation pack. Yeah I feel kind of foolish for doing so just to pretti-fy my windows! Turned out to have some useful enhancements though - the taskbar thumbnail preview is quite neat, and the Lclock allowed me to make my clock REALLY BIG and visible without changing the taskbar - now I never forget the time like I used to.

It works great, I recommend. It doesn't actually give you the glass effect on the windows though, you have to download windows blinds for that.

by **paulmt** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:26 pm

trixmoto wrote:So in short, thanks to rovingcowboy for creating this thread, thanks to Steegy for suggesting the recategorisation, and thanks to paulmt for agreeing with us.

And no offence meant Steegy, you would probably look great in a uniform!

by **Guest** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:29 am

the way to be successful is unknown.
but
the way to fail is to try and please everyone.

by **trixmoto** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:14 am

Many people (including rovingcowboy) often post suggesting to a moderator that a thread should be moved, or a post deleted or amended. I can't speak for all moderators but I appreciate this as if I agree I already know that I have support for it. Sometimes I don't agree and ignore it!

So in short, thanks to rovingcowboy for creating this thread, thanks to Steegy for suggesting the recategorisation, and thanks to paulmt for agreeing with us.

by **Steegy** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:39 am

I appreciate RovingCowboy's work too. The only thing I said first was:

"Off Topic" forum pleaz

(that was question for the moderators... I don't PM them for that purpose you know)

The forum tends to get a messy place and so we have to keep it as ordered as possible. Sorry if I'm acting like a forum police. But give me 1 good reason why I can't ask "Off-topic" while a lot of others have done it in the past, and while moderators just do it without asking. I already have a life, an internet-aware life.

by **paulmt** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:05 am

Well, I agree this should be in "Off Topic" so I am ok with a Moderator moving this thread.

What I can never get my head around is the person who isn't a moderator that feels the need to act like some sort of forum police, sheez get a life!

I for one appreciated RovingCowboy taking time out to make the post regardless of where he opted to put it.

by **Steegy** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:25 pm

RovingCowboy, don't be difficult.
The "News and other stuff" forum description is "...anything that might be of interest to MediaMonkey users" and not "...anything that might be of interest to Windows users". That should explain what I mean.
The "Off topic" forum description is "...completely unrelated to MediaMonkey".
That's the way is has been done usually here on the forum.

by **trixmoto** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:56 pm

By "of interest to" I infered "related to". I believe this is a suitable inference so am happy with my decision to move this thread to Off Topic. Anyone else disagree?

by **rovingcowboy** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:23 am

read the description again.

Discussion about anything that might be of interest to MediaMonkey users.
Moderators

its been that since the forum was started.

so any NEWS that is of intrest to others in the forum that might have some reason for trying to use the news with media monkey is to be placed in the news and other stuffs forum.

by **trixmoto** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:21 am

The News page is for MM (or at least related) news, I believe! Anything non-MM is "Off Topic".

by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:16 pm

paulmt wrote:Thanks RC
I won't be making the move to Vista for a while yet. My XP has been reliable and does everything I want, but I do like the Vista skins!

I'll check this out and report back

i ain't going to vista either but i knew some here wanted
some things from vista to work in monkey. so i thought maybe
this would help for that and i knew others yet like you wanted the look and feel of vista so i keep a look out for anything. but it seems i missed that when it was first posted. still old news is better then not getting it at all.

by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:14 pm

nohitter151 wrote:I tried this, it works very well! Thanks for posting cowboy!

your welcome glad the news helped you.

by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:14 pm

why do youi insist on wanting news put in to off topic?

want xp to look like vista?

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