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I’ve been holding off posting this for a little while, just to try it out before recommending something that doesn’t quite work. Anyways..
A couple weeks ago I rolled back from Vista to XP. This isn’t due to any real performance concerns - apart from the ridiculous amount of time it sometimes (read: always) took to hibernate - but my laptop was built for XP and I lost a fair few functions when I upgraded. Hdd protection and function keys being just two.
However I’d entirely forgotten just how ugly windows XP looks.
Being utterly superficial like I am, I set off to solve this os-tonishing disaster (see what I did there?). My first idea was to use a vista theme, I liked vista’s looks just fine and had gotten used to them. Turns out quite a few people had already tried this - seemingly trying to emulate pre-release vista screenshots - but unfortunately none of them quite worked out. Every one had something that irked me - a glitch here, a flicker there - so I looked beyond pseudo-vistas and found this theme.
It’s the above theme that I wanted to shout to the world about - but it too had a tiny (tiny, tiny) problem. Every time I moved the ‘Test Movie’ window in Flash - the title bar would disappear. This forced me to Ctrl + W to get out of it.. and also looks glitchy and horrible.
All is not lost though (he says, as if this was world changing) as today completely by accident I found the ‘disable visual themes’ checkbox under an application-shortcut’s compatibility settings. Problem solved! By removing the theme from Flash itself.. the glitch doesn’t occur (and minimizes/maximizes quickly too).
Great stylin’ times.
Predictably this blog went south, just like all my other attempts. Whatever, I’ve got a new portfolio site, check it out here.
I’ve got Vista at home, which I prefer, but XP here at work. I use the lovely ZUNE theme from Microsoft - it’s pretty!
April 10th, 2008 at 5:34 pm