XP Themes and Your Desktop

[Stevenpfo]

After stumbling upon this site: http://www.wincustomize.com/, I have been playing with my windows themes, settings and adding new stuff. I was wondering if anyone else mods their desktop/theme heavily? I'm gonna go ahead and post a screenie of my new desktop in the hopes others will do the same. Even if they haven't done anything special to their desktop.

Edit: I dunno if that much memory usage is normal ... But about 80MB of it are 3 programs running in the background that I purposely have running.

 

[Fetus4188]

That's freakin' awesome

 

[Jeratain]

Samurize does the same thing (but better) and once you've used it, it pretty much wears out its novelty purposes in a matter of days. They are nothing but a memory waste IMHO.

 

[lord_yoshi]

I used to do that to my KDE desktop, but I never add anything overly hogging in XP (because I am running 200MB / 512)

 

[Stevenpfo]

i'm gonna go and check out that Samurize thing. I haven't really noticed a slow down in anything I do (yet) and I play civ and FPS a lot. Maybe we'll see how I feel about all of it in 4-5 days 'cause i'm still pretty happy aesthetically.

 

[dutchking]

Smile and wave boys, just smile and wave...

PS: I'm running XP on a MAC.

 

[skadistic]

I do change my theme ever so often. But I run classic set up So I go in and tweek settings. I have yet to try XP themes.

@Stevenpfo

What is the weather thing in the corner? I had one similar and lost it and can't find it. Does it open into a calender?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Royale Noir Theme on XP: simple, and doesnt hurt the eyes.

Spoiler Desktop :

The background is by LogicSequence. And yes, I need to clean up my desktop..

 

[Macha]

Spoiler Desktop :

And yes, I need to clean up my desktop..

Not really. My desktop is nearly full except when i am at 1680x1050 resolution.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Not really. My desktop is nearly full except when i am at 1680x1050 resolution.

Err, I forgot to remove that part of my post when I edited it. I reposted a screenshot with the clean version. I had the icons start spilling onto the second desktop in the first one.

 

[Synobun]

I cannot seem to find an XP Theme which does not screw over my eyes and actually look good.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Use the one I use: Royale Noir.

 

[dutchking]

Get "StyleXP" or another theme software and it gives you links to downloads. I personally like the Vista theme I'm using with custom buttons, it has a nice atmosphere to it, and I have yahoo widgets on there for another little perk.

There are many options out there dave, you could spend hours looking for the 'right one'.

 

[Synobun]

There are many options out there dave, you could spend hours looking for the 'right one'.

Yeah, I know.

I've found one moderately decent one which doesn't make me want to die and mutilate my body 5 times in a row.

Just keep on looking...

 

[Synobun]

Here we are.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o22/dhighland/album2/desktopmarchdave01.jpg

What do you guys think?

 

[dutchking]

Looks good, get rid of the stuff on the desktop.

Such a steal from Macintosh...

 

[Synobun]

Looks good, get rid of the stuff on the desktop.

Such a steal from Macintosh...

I don't want to >_>

*shrug* The dock is really the only thing I like about MAC.

 

[GVBN]

Can't get much more interesting than this

 

[Genocidicbunny]

You could have this:


Or any command-line interface for that matter

 

[GenMarshall]

@dutchking - Where did you get the classic Konfabulator Weather Widget for Yahoo Widgets?