by HotWax » Fri Nov 14, 2003 5:03 pm
Ultraviolet wrote:Ty: You forgot to point out the "go" button by the address bar in IE, that big ugly yellow star for favorites, and the implementation of custom toolbars on the taskbar.
Steve: It's better to go through control panel's "performance and maintenance" menu to "adjust visual effects." All I like to leave on are "use visual styles on windows and buttons" (or something like that), "use common tasks in folders" (sometimes helpful), and "smooth edges of screen fonts" (to make up for poor readability in some situations). That way you can make sure you've got all the fade effects and such turned off as well.
Yes but then it wouldn't have been a 5-step post and my simplicity argument would fly right out the window. ^_^
Still, unless you're a complete idiot (and sadly far too many people who use computers are
), you can have Win XP looking exactly the way you want it with a little bit of tweaking in no time.
It just irks me to hear people diss XP because "it looks stupid with the default settings". If you hate pickles, do you refuse to buy Big Macs because "by default" they come with them, or do you just tell them to leave it off? Why make such a big fuss about something you can customize away once and then never have to worry about again?
[quote="Ultraviolet"]Ty: You forgot to point out the "go" button by the address bar in IE, that big ugly yellow star for favorites, and the implementation of custom toolbars on the taskbar.
Steve: It's better to go through control panel's "performance and maintenance" menu to "adjust visual effects." All I like to leave on are "use visual styles on windows and buttons" (or something like that), "use common tasks in folders" (sometimes helpful), and "smooth edges of screen fonts" (to make up for poor readability in some situations). That way you can make sure you've got all the fade effects and such turned off as well.[/quote]
Yes but then it wouldn't have been a 5-step post and my simplicity argument would fly right out the window. ^_^
Still, unless you're a complete idiot (and sadly far too many people who use computers are :roll:), you can have Win XP looking exactly the way you want it with a little bit of tweaking in no time.
It just irks me to hear people diss XP because "it looks stupid with the default settings". If you hate pickles, do you refuse to buy Big Macs because "by default" they come with them, or do you just tell them to leave it off? Why make such a big fuss about something you can customize away once and then never have to worry about again?