power to the desktop

[Testin da Cable]

n00 desktop goodies for windows here. some look quite nice really me thinkies
read about them here and look at them here

 

[Sir Frizz]

Wait just a darn-tootin' minute TdC, i thought you were on linux. Why would you help us MS users?:touch:

 

[Testin da Cable]

one might say that it's part of a diabolical plan to infiltrate your minds via subliminal messaging on your desktops

oh dear...now you know too much and I have to kill you. come over here for a minute frizzman..........

 

[Sir Frizz]

*whistle*

*wonder*

 

[granny]

Looks nice, shame it's XP only :/

 

[whipped]

Don't try this without a good graphics card. This NVIDIA TNT2 M64 is struggling with the transitions.

 

[Insane]

Originally posted on the Stardock website
Requires: Windows XP or Windows 2000

Or if your feeling that suicidal...

Redhat 8.0 was released last night. :uhoh:
Clicky here for Marketing spiel!!!

go on, you know you want to...

Edit:// READ the url box BEFORE filling it in..

 

[granny]

Oh, didnt spot the w2k support, sorry

 

[Sar]

Half of what that does I can do atm with the bloody Nvidia Dets.

I was hoping for the funky toolbar that is in OS X, but no luck :/

 

[PR.]

Yes Sar, but you missed the bit that it said this is done via the Gfx card and not the CPU like it is done under normal transparency programs

Haven't tried it yet as it wants me to subscribe to Download.com

 

[Summo]

Just been trying this out and tbh the effects are poorly implemented. The screen isn't refreshed often enough, so while there's nifty transition effects going on in one window, the one behind it has garbled graphics until the effect stops... then its refreshed.

I won't be bothering, thanks.

 

[Testin da Cable]

that so? hmm starting to sound a bit sucky :/
ah well, I can't use it anyway

 

[PR.]

It doesn't properly support NVIDIA gfx cards which may be partly responsible

I've always found Stardock products to be clunky

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by PR.
Yes Sar, but you missed the bit that it said this is done via the Gfx card and not the CPU like it is done under normal transparency programs.

So the Nvidia graphics drivers don't work through the graphics card then?

 

[PR.]

No they work just not properly, I did a check and the transparency of a large window does not whack the CPU to 100%

Problem is a GF2go GPU is not really that much of an improvement over the 1.2ghz P3m :/

 

[Skyler]

/me sticks to nview transparancy thank you very much..

 

[Ch3tan]

Been using winfx1.2 for mirc transparency for ages, it works fine so I see no reason to change

 

[PR.]

mIRC has its own transparency?

Under Options, if you have a recent version...

 

[Sar]

Only under 2k or NT/XP.

Doesn't work under 98, but then again not much does

 

[old.Kez]

Do you all use your desktops as a form of torture? Why would you set out to make a window harder to read by giving it other layers to contend with? Along that same hinderance line, why do people actually have any icons on their desktop, aside from to slow them down? I don't get the logic.

 

[Sar]

Maybe because most of us have systems that can cope with desktop icons without choking on the lack of system resources?

 

[old.Kez]

Way to have missed the point, Corporal Spastic!

 

[Sar]

Thanks El Capitano!

xD

 

[stu]

I'll install this the same day I put Bonzi Buddy on my PC - I hear that makes my intarnet fastar!

 

[exxxie]

Originally posted by old.Kez
Way to have missed the point, Corporal Spastic!

lol



winXP regularly changes my desktop icon piccies... kinda randomises them so you dont know wtf your clicking tbh. Is that a bug/corrupt desktop display? or is it a new game M$ didnt tell us about for XP users only?

Ive got stardock wb atm, its neat cos it randomly loads skins (or bits of skins) and resizes your desktop wallpaper at varying times for that personalized feel.

"hide Desktop icons" "Windows classic blandeness" is the way forward imo

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by exxie


lol



winXP regularly changes my desktop icon piccies... kinda randomises them so you dont know wtf your clicking tbh. Is that a bug/corrupt desktop display? or is it a new game M$ didnt tell us about for XP users only?

Ive got stardock wb atm, its neat cos it randomly loads skins (or bits of skins) and resizes your desktop wallpaper at varying times for that personalized feel.

"hide Desktop icons" "Windows classic blandeness" is the way forward imo

I think you have a virus!

And your computer isnt working properly either!

 

[.cage]

Originally posted by old.Kez
Do you all use your desktops as a form of torture? Why would you set out to make a window harder to read by giving it other layers to contend with? Along that same hinderance line, why do people actually have any icons on their desktop, aside from to slow them down? I don't get the logic.

I concur :/

 

[kameleon]

i have a blank desktop and put the icons on a double taskbar

it makes the wallpaper easier to see