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Posted by OtZman on Sun Jun 5th at 2:59am 2005

Something else you might want to try is ClearType, http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx , basically it makes text smoother, more like text printed on a piece of paper.



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Jun 5th at 3:00am 2005

My desktop (radiance background and Smartbar XP):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/WildCard832/background.jpg




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Posted by ReNo on Sun Jun 5th at 3:25am 2005

You need to empty your recycle bin man! You've got over a gig of stuff in there, madness <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> Pretty cool system info on your taskbar there though.




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 2:27am 2005

Dunno if anyones brought this up yet, but you can make windows XP look like the next version of windows they are currently working on. Its called Windows Longhorn.

The conversion program is free and available at MS.

I will look to see if I can relocate it.





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Posted by Loco on Tue Jun 7th at 8:12am 2005

My current desktop - showing off the royale theme and serving as guidance for those of us with exams...
http://img93.echo.cx/img93/8414/desktop76054bf.jpg



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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Jun 7th at 10:44am 2005

TBH, most of the programs you guys have put up I've tried- I hated Royal, all it is is a recolour of standard windows theme, you don't need to download any crappy theme to make it look like royale.

As for litestep- hated it with a vengeance. So stupid to use, everything is so tiny and theres no decent manuals to tell you whats going on! I had to open safemode winXP just to uninstal it because it wouldn't tell me how!

I'm just gunna stick with standard windows themes that you can download- none of this crazy s**t.




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Posted by $loth on Tue Jun 7th at 2:33pm 2005

I just use rainy day theme (the windows one) and some sorta back ground...




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Posted by Dark|Killer on Tue Jun 7th at 3:50pm 2005

You can Find LOADS of themes in www.wincustomize.com XD


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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jun 8th at 7:04am 2005

Well, I took a look at the lite step thingy -- I was on that customize.org website ,and I saw a theme I wanted -- then I realized that it wouldn't load without litestep. Okay, no big deal.

The big deal started when I loaded and installed litestep, restarted my computer... and was quite horrified at what I saw. Worst of all, the theme I had been trying to get working, didn't seem to actually have the file it need for Litestep to reconize (I will check to make sure that it is a litestep, but I'm very sure.)

So about 3 minutes ago, I did a system restore to get my good ol windows XP classic theme back :P




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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jun 8th at 12:07pm 2005

Dude all you needed to do was run an explorer window and make it to the control panel- system restore IS bad for your PC, fact. I don't care what evidence anyone has against my comment, I've seen it work over time...


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Posted by Dred_furst on Wed Jun 8th at 12:11pm 2005

ive had litestep installed but not activated, it puts two icons on your desktop, one to restart to litestep and one to restart to explorer im trying to check out that hl2 theme, and the standard litestep theme kills my ingame fps, any ideas? latest drivers ect.

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ive just got the hl too theme installed, with a few alterations, here is what i got:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/Dred_furst/litestepthing.jpg
ive linked it because the image is huge

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i used to enjoy 'themeing' the screens at work. a few years ago, i found out the name of the old 'it is now safe to turn off your computer' file. it was a small bmp but had a .sys extension, so i made a new one in paint that said the computer had encountered a serious error and would explode in 10 seconds. it wouldn't really have been funny if i'd done it on my own computer instead of my managers. worked a treat. and the touch screen pic i made as a desktop background worked pretty well as a dafty magnet.


whats that file, i can have so much fun at school! and anyone know how to stop it turning off automatically?



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