How to get the Vista Experience for Free
You can get a relatively accurate taste of how it will feel to run Windows Vista without actually buying it. Microsoft doesn’t want you to know this, but you can actually emulate Windows Vista at home using only WinXP or Win2k machine and some freely available tools. Here is how you do it.
You will need the following:
Tools:
- A computer with Windows XP or Windows 2000 installed
- Bunch of blank CD’s
- 3′ thick wooden stick
- 10-20 empty glass bottles
- Barbed Wire
- Bucket of horse shit
Procedure:
- Smear your computer with horse shit
- Evenly spread the remaining shit on the floor
- Break all the bottles, and throw the glass shards into the shit on the floor
- Strip down and start rolling in the shitty glass for at least 20 minutes
- Once you are done, tightly coil the barbed wire at one end of the stick (you want to get the spiky mace like effect)
- Shove the stick up your butt
- Sit at your computer and browse the web
I can assure you that this experience is remarkably similar to what one may feel when running Windows Vista.
The blanks CD’s are listed under tools so that after “experiencing Vista” you can download and burn yourself few different Live Linux distros and compare.
I’m not saying that running Linux is not painful sometimes. Believe me, often it is. But it’s not because the creators of the system designed it to be this way. Vista was designed from the ground up to be Microsoft and Entertainment Industry friendly, but user hostile. It is the Zune of operating systems…
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December 7th, 2006 at 3:29 pm (1956) [Quote]
hehe.. classic
I believe there actually is a way of making XP look like Vista - you can get the theme somewhere online probably, change a few settings, probably need to install something from a hack site (read as “get infected by all kinds of nasties”)
The true Vista experience
Posted usingDecember 7th, 2006 at 10:47 pm (1959) [Quote]
Yeah, you need one of the styling apps like StyleXP or WindowBlinds.
Then you can download styles such as Vista LE 10 or Vista Areo (StyleXP).
Not really worth it though. Both programs eat memory and slow you down. The eye candy factor becomes old after 3 days. I reverted to the Windows classic and never looked back. Meh…
The only thing I really liked about StyleXP was the ability to change the look and feel of the login-screen. On one of my Windows boxen I’m using this one.
Posted usingDecember 8th, 2006 at 12:55 am (1960) [Quote]
haha.. nice one..
Posted usingDecember 8th, 2006 at 11:11 am (1971) [Quote]
Luke: Actually windows can be faster if you have Windowblinds, a recent graphics card, and disable the windows “themes” service.
Posted usingDecember 8th, 2006 at 1:01 pm (1972) [Quote]
Fr3d, I was not aware of that - I haven’t really tested WindowBlinds but I assumed it was similar to StyleXP which did eat some memory when you ran it as a resident in the taskbar.
Even if you closed the app, the themes usually would work a little slower than a bare bones Windows Classic style.
What I usually do on most of my Windows boxes these days is go to the System Properties and choose the “Adjust for Best Performance” option, and then just enable TrueType and Drop Shadows for Desktop fonts.
Posted usingMarch 31st, 2007 at 7:39 pm (3651) [Quote]
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