want xp to look like vista?

[paulmt]

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!

[james.faction]

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.

[paulmt]

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

[KorkyKat]

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.