twotwenty Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Hi there. I recently decided to replace my XP laptops Explorer with the Xfce desktop environment, bbClean (a modification of BlackBox for Windows). I did it because I need my laptop to start up quick, and save on memory usage. I've been a fan of Xfce for a while now, my other laptop has Xubuntu installed. I also like minimalistic designs. So far I've been very impressed with it - its really doing the job very well! I even installed Rocketdock and Rainmeter with it to enhance the desktop controls, which work really nice with it. Heres a picture: What I would like to know is - What do you guys use, if anything, to modify your Windows UI? Thanks, TwoTwenty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhimself Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 i use Windows Blinds to modify my windows UI :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I just switch it to best performance. Windows is just a work tool, nothing more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 i used a program called stylexp it was pretty cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didanix Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Personally, I don't do much UI tweaking. When I do want/need to change the Windows Explorer/shell, I go for Directory Opus, especially with Vista. While it's an entire explorer/shell replacement, it mainly acts as a much improved file manager, althoug the features are pretty astonishing. :) For themes, I just go with the Zune theme for XP, Black Vista for Vista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroBeat Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 If you want speed simply replace the explorer.exe with cmd.exe ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 cmd.exe is fail bash ftw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim.vangehugten Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I would just run KDE under windows ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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