Comments on: How to get the Vista Experience for Free http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » Please Stop Asking me About Windows 7 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-11773 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:26:38 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-11773

[…] The common folk has developed an unparamount hatred for Vista. Get this, they actually hate it more than we do. How funny is that? Normal people hating a Microsoft product more than Linux geeks – I didn’t think I would live to see this day. Of course they are not ready to switch to another OS – let’s not be crazy here. They are still deeply locked into the MS monoculture. But they fucking had it with Vista and they want a new shiny OS from Microsoft that doesn’t suck. Let’s face it, the Vista experience is rather painful. […]

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[…] I guess great minds think alike. tags: windows, vista, xp, pain, horrible, sucks […]

]]> By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1972 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:01:25 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1972

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.

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]]> By: Fr3d http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1971 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:11:52 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1971

Luke: Actually windows can be faster if you have Windowblinds, a recent graphics card, and disable the windows “themes” service.

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]]> By: dEEPAK http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1960 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:55:29 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1960

haha.. nice one..

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]]> By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1959 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:47:57 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1959

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.

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]]> By: Matt` http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1956 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:29:19 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-get-the-vista-experience-for-free/#comment-1956

:lol:
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 :D

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