Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Elysian Fields, TX, USA
Posts: 2618

WindowBlinds

It's really cool, just in case you guys don't know about it. I bet you do though, and I'm just wasting mine and your time. So sorry.

anyhow...I suggest downloading it from Cnet.
http://www.stardock.com

It's also got WinAMP skins, etc.

Sorry again.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: b0ulder
Posts: 5126

check out www.skinz.org and litestep

or litestep's links page for more stuffs

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Be warned people though. I found that Windowblinds like to eat up resources, particularly if you have things like McAffee and Zone Alarmn running in the background

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Men who believe they give a woman an orgasm everytime are fools.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: 54.60°N 5.70°W
Posts: 1950

Most of these programs require careful tweaking and a lot of personalization. Replacing the windows shell can be a tricky thing, and if you don't get it right it can take a while to repair the damage.

Side note: if you're reading this and have no idea what we're talking about (especially if you don't know what the windows shell is), I wouldn't recommend experimenting with any of this stuff on an important computer.

[Edit: I will learn to type some day. I promise.]

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Pangloss is right. Be warned! If you install Litestep it will rewrite the system.ini file int he Windows directory and change the line 'shell=explorer' to 'shell=c:\litestep/litestep.exe'

If Litestep fails to load Windows will give you one of its dodgy messages in that it will say 'Could not load Litestep.exe Please reinstall Windows'. This is of course not neccessary, just boot the machine and hit F8 and choose to boot in DOS then edit the system.ini from there.

Of course, like Pangloss said if you have no idea what going into DOS means,. or using such wonderful tools such as 'Edit' then do not piss about with litestep.

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Men who believe they give a woman an orgasm everytime are fools.

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