Modifying Windows

[thebobman]

Anybody else into modifying their OS? What are you favs? I just realized that I'm running something like 14 shell extensions and mods and have been for a while?

[sNyx]

Used to be into the blinds/skins and stuff. I found that it harped on performance, plus totally flibbed on some of the cover elements (half icons and shit). Now im just anal on my windows setup and layout. I rearrange around half the start menu on install now, no matter whos computer it is, I mean WTF is Character Map doing in the system tools, lol. My major 'mod' would be my start menu..

http://www.overclockinghq.com/articl...estartmenu.php

[DJDeeb]

- Disable the 'themes' service, i hate that fisher price look of XP.
- Change to the classic start menu
- Disable the 'Indexing' service
- Change the page file to have a static size ( the set the min and the max to the same number )

[rawb]

running alternate shells/themers/crazy things is weak
learn to knit

[mapleleaf4ever]

I used to mess around with Windows a lot. Not so much anymore though.

[sNyx]

TweakUI is all you need as far as tweaking goes.. still 90% of the shit on that app you don't use. lol

[stringbeans]

when i was using windows 98 i had litestep as my shell. i actually really liked it and everything ran a lot smoother. now i really dont have the time/patience to completely customize my desktop

[thebobman]

Originally Posted by stringbeans

when i was using windows 98 i had litestep as my shell. i actually really liked it and everything ran a lot smoother. now i really dont have the time/patience to completely customize my desktop

yeah, I tried light step as well,
right now I have my start menu heavily modified, services and the shell edited and reduced in registry, static page file, UltraMon for my monitor set up, a little app called Copy Handler which is the bestest thing ever (queues up copying jobs, is stupidly faster than windows) I also hacked Messenger's registry to reduce the load as well stripped out some of IE's bloat and added in tabbed browsing. Nothing really that cosmetic (I tried tclock for a while and then decided it wasn't worth 3MB of ram )

[stringbeans]

yeah ive never understood why people use ultramon. i mean personally i dont need to see my system's resource usages in real time but i guess it'd be useful for development. as for hacking IE, wouldnt it be easier just to download firefox? hehe

post a screenshot of your shell! :)

[sNyx]

how can I get my mates MSN to open in Firebox as it defaults to IE on ANYTHING clicked (anything outside of a convo windows atleast)

[sh4un]

i use to be all about the stardock names. but as myles said the shit only jacks your cpu/ram. u can make windows look clean without all the skinning and get way better performence.

i still run icon packager that doesnt seem to affect anything.

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

how can I get my mates MSN to open in Firebox as it defaults to IE on ANYTHING clicked (anything outside of a convo windows atleast)

Tools > Options > General

There is a checkbox for:
"Firefox should check to see if it is the default browser when starting."

Check it and click Check Now.

[acidic_liquid]

Post screenshots! :D

[MStar]

I just skin.
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[thebobman]

Originally Posted by stringbeans

yeah ive never understood why people use ultramon. i mean personally i dont need to see my system's resource usages in real time but i guess it'd be useful for development. as for hacking IE, wouldnt it be easier just to download firefox? hehe

post a screenshot of your shell! :)

UltraMon Multimonitor Application
s'not for system monitoring, it allows multiple taskbars. I can't got without now, I put all my active program tasks bars at the top of my windows and auto hide them. the normal task bar is just one bit launch pad

[soma]

I wear funny hats while surfing the interweb

[thebobman]

Originally Posted by soma

I wear funny hats while surfing the interweb

I'm afraid that will only give you "1336" rating
just one point shy of actual nerdom