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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93120]

Sun, 06 June 2004 15:30

IRON FART
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Bored of the windows look?

Try looking at Blackbox for Windows.

http://www.bb4win.org
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56991&package_id=52365

Just download and run blackbox.exe

http://www.baclan.org/albums/album05/dasmodell.jpg

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<[Digital]> get man_fucking_a_car.mpg
<[Digital]> ah fuck wrong window

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93121]

Sun, 06 June 2004 15:32

Spice
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Give me more info and ill go check it out. Dont want to read something im not gonna be interested in.

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8027/userbar358428pu3.gif

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93124]

Sun, 06 June 2004 15:41

Jaspah
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StyleXP is better.

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93126]

Sun, 06 June 2004 15:45

MrBob
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Who cares? It's under the GPL. Smile

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93128]

Sun, 06 June 2004 15:47

IRON FART
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Style XP only works for XP.

Blackbox is a whole new shell for windows. Once you run it, you can close explorer.exe. StyleXP is just a stupid shareware program that allows you to run themes that aren't signed by MS.

It is made to be extremely customizable. Here are some screenshots from their SS page...
http://box.crackmonkey.us/screenies/1558.jpg
http://box.crackmonkey.us/screenies/1560.jpg
http://box.crackmonkey.us/screenies/1556.jpg
Thoe are just the 3 obvious ones that I liked, no doubt there is more.

Quote:

Quote from IRC
<[Digital]> get man_fucking_a_car.mpg
<[Digital]> ah fuck wrong window

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93129]

Sun, 06 June 2004 15:50

exnyte
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http://www.astonshell.com

Not free, but definately worth the money. And it's not that expensive either.

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93134]

Sun, 06 June 2004 16:18

OnfireUK
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j4S[p

]StyleXP is better.

I wub style xp, btw if ya didnt know ...

Http://www.themexp.org

change ur windows XP boot screens, logins, themes or wallpapers easily with StyleXP and that site Wink

Gotta love it ^_^

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Re: Bored of the Windows look? [message #93161]

Sun, 06 June 2004 17:45

Majiin Vegeta
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IRON-FART

just downloaded and running looks good gonna start messing with it
also so uses less memory than explorer.exe Very Happy

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93163]

Sun, 06 June 2004 17:48

Javaxcx
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I don't think I want to download anything called "blackbox.exe". Razz

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93164]

Sun, 06 June 2004 17:52

Majiin Vegeta
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second thoughts.. i'll use explorer.. this thing seems hard to configure :S

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93174]

Sun, 06 June 2004 19:07

DBB
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So exactly how much memory does this thing hog up? It looks like it would take a lot, but damn it looks so cool! Ill wait for a little more feedback before I download it!

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93175]

Sun, 06 June 2004 19:09

xptek_disabled
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10 MB with transparencies and a lot of plug ins enabled.

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93176]

Sun, 06 June 2004 19:12

exnyte
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Colonel

So about 2MB more an Windows takes on a normal basis?

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93181]

Sun, 06 June 2004 19:49

DBB
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So a 2mb increase shouldnt really affect your computer, unless of course you have like 80 processes open and not to much ram.

Ill look into it, plus maybe itll confuse some of the people that will try to use my computer when im gone for 6 months. Razz

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93184]

Sun, 06 June 2004 20:00

exnyte
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Colonel

It wouldn't affect your computer... I'm just used to an average of 3MB, and never usually going over 5MB with Aston.

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93191]

Sun, 06 June 2004 21:06

IRON FART
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Actually I'm reaching about 1.8MB average with a fair amount of processes running. But no transparency or any other pluging other than the ones that come with it.

But thats the point of it...to keep your comp feeling clean and simple.

Beats explorer's 20MB+! Smile

This was originally designed for Unix, and it's only recently been converted to windows. So you can have a windows and Unix maching both feeling and looking the same.

Quote:

Quote from IRC
<[Digital]> get man_fucking_a_car.mpg
<[Digital]> ah fuck wrong window

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Bored of the Windows look? [message #93264]

Mon, 07 June 2004 05:34

Drkpwn3r
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ya, i like blackbox, no probs, made my laptop 300% efficient Shocked

1st thing that actually helped it.
also, no one else in my family adapts to different looks for windows, so no one knows where my menus are or anything now, more security for me Very Happy