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Old 02-27-2007, 02:15 PM   #2071 (permalink)
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How did you know that?

But yeah, I use Vista as my main OS. It's decent, runs particularly well on my system (Index score of 5.3) and I don't experience any drainage of resources/system slowness.

But I can imagine that on the average PC, Vista would not be as smooth as I have it...
How do I know that? On the sidebar of yours, it says XP, and basically, most people with another partition or drive with a XP label usually means that there's another OS in there

On the average PC, I've seen disastrous performance. My P4 system is actually able to keep up, but not as fast...and without the Sound Blaster Live!

The second PC ran it horribly. The third hasn't been tried, but it won't be either

If I compare my most performent PC to yours, yours hits 5.3, while mine hits 4.6. If I had a 7800GS, the CPU would bottleneck the score at 5.2
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Old 02-27-2007, 02:55 PM   #2072 (permalink)
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You spent so hard getting it to look all like Vista, and now you've changed it again...?
Well, for starters. I had to unload window blinds because google talk didn't want to work with it. And I can't not have Google Talk. I use it all the time. I also like seeing something different from time to time. And not all the vista icons didn't stay because of windows update(You'll notice I have the vista my computer icon, and my documents but others are changed). I like to keep windows updating, People say it's not a good idea to stop it.

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404'd! maybe you should try a different host? photobucket perhaps?
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Did you know that if you say gullible really slowly it sounds like Goat Cheese?

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Old 02-27-2007, 04:23 PM   #2073 (permalink)
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How do I know that? On the sidebar of yours, it says XP, and basically, most people with another partition or drive with a XP label usually means that there's another OS in there
Oh yeah! Forgot about that little gadget...

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Well, for starters. I had to unload window blinds because google talk didn't want to work with it. And I can't not have Google Talk. I use it all the time. I also like seeing something different from time to time. And not all the vista icons didn't stay because of windows update(You'll notice I have the vista my computer icon, and my documents but others are changed).
You do know that you can tell WindowBlinds not to skin certain applications, right?
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Old 02-27-2007, 06:07 PM   #2074 (permalink)
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Oh yeah! Forgot about that little gadget...



You do know that you can tell WindowBlinds not to skin certain applications, right?
The problem wasn't that it was trying to skin google talk, because it wasn't trying to skin anything else.....it just flashed around the screen a whole bunch, and did random things. I've had it happen while doing something with some different programs....I don't really know how to explain it.
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Old 02-27-2007, 06:08 PM   #2075 (permalink)
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Updated yet again. But only because I had to show off the original windows xp. I just reinstalled it!
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Old 02-27-2007, 08:29 PM   #2076 (permalink)
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:00 PM   #2077 (permalink)
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Here's my Windows 2000 pc with dual monitors.
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:18 PM   #2078 (permalink)
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Old 02-27-2007, 09:35 PM   #2079 (permalink)
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I'll have some updated ones in a bit, I have a new desktop at work running win xp, vista business, open suse 10.2 and kubuntu 6.10. I had to get a new system at work since it seems I had a bad agp slot, after many frusturating errors getting beryl to run on my linux box I could never enable 3D hardware acceleration via sax2 manager. Long story short it ended up being a hardware problem, so I am building my new desktop at work.
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Updated yet again. But only because I had to show off the original windows xp. I just reinstalled it!
Lol that looks so horrible now....when i re-install windows the first thing i do after instaling antivirus is get a new theme
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