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actually prefetch is useless so its best to disable it, especially on SSD

those are system classic appearance settings you can reach them by going to Personalisation -> windows color ->click on "advanced appearance settings" at the bottom changing size goes more to system metrics than skin editing tho images loaded are still locked down to certain minimum size, for example you can't have (atleast in vista/7) thin borders as in XP, they will always revert back to locked size that was meant for "glass" size loaded by skin image as always MS wants to enforce their "vision" of OS look, so they lock down other skins + it saves them huuuuge time for OS support, imagine thousand of peoples downloading broken skin, and calling MS support

except UI improvement of 7 over vista is huge, and that means alot to user just compare Explorer, vista's is clunky, everything is squished, icon below icon, no organisation, not to mention the annoying scroll to the right thingy 7's explorer finally introduced separation of different folder types, its neater-cleaner-more organised, you have favorites tree which is excelent vista taskbar = xp + useless thumbnails 7 one is fantastic desktop, sidebar vs free floating gadgets, 7 wins start menu ?, small change but instant shutdown button again wins in 7 - system wise win7 has less agressive superfetch and UAC

you can't disable such things via registry as they are "built in" to "read" from skin file editing .msstyle is easiest and only way to go

personally I always avoided AVG, it was trash in past, doubt its better now

1. orb is never shown on classic theme 2. if all browsers are affected (and I see your taskbar is FUBAR too), its probably malware and not graphic driver 2.1 your anti-virus software could also affect how browser "related" images show, as they often filter/block content on their own 3. if its not malware (system graphic related) then your uxtheme.dll is unsigned (thus broken)

//ot don't get me wrong, I am not "spitting" on vlite, it is great tool I was merely pointing out that without hacks it didn't support 7 SP1

well from my experience, vlite always broke 7 SP1 I'm still using rt7 lited win7/sp1, and been so for 3 years now they both kinda offered same options but rt7 was more compatible for instance in vlite if you choose to remove SxS, this will break everything always, even on vista while rt7 doesn't break system with its "removal"

so by that so called METRO is new technology ? since win8 is not desktop anymore but how is putting HTML/JS as UI new technology ? they experimented with this since win95 and trashed it in late 1999 they can sell this to naive people... but not to me...

If so, maybe those did not existed in Win 7 time. 2 did vlite can/could edit 7 RTM RT 7 lite can/could edit both RTM and later SP1 (when it came out)

there are plenty of tools that customize win7 so don't talk BS

one more reason among million why not use winblows 8

as always its up to apple to show micro$oft the right way ...

its easy to make w7 lite, its hard to make it without breaking something

or search for possible patches that match your problem

it would be nice if possible to have IE removed from XP without damage to shell as for your new possible project that replaces vlite, a way to "disable"/remove winsxs, like win7 rt lite does without damage to system, and again IE removal (this for NT 6, not XP)

I fail to see how c#/.net is superior to c++ .net always uses JIT which even if user is unaware of, is slow and chokes CPU core not to mention its not real compile when you "make an app" unlike vb/c++ which are pure compile, no JIT optimization is needed and their compiled apps "just run"

meh I don't care for old IE, it can't support squat as for % I already did that (1st post), I got same results as with em while now with px it looks same on all browsers (altho many dislike px, but seems to be best solution)

good point I always thought system is one that sets the "default font size" ok so to pixels i will switch, thanks

yes same link but I don't know which browser renders it correctly then I'm lost (actually I'm pissed)

people often recommend to start with C (not C#) then move to either Visual Basic or C++ or C# (.net) C++ being most hardest to work with but one can do anything with it

on Opera 11 and 12, old firefox (4 i think) my webpage which has in css set-up "font-size" to 1em and 1.4em, worked but on new Iron/Chrome, Firefox and Opera 15/16/17(chrome) the size in em is simply totally different rendered (site always zoomed in 100% - normal) check the screencaps, left is older, right is newer browsers: http://i39.tinypic.com/14o0uhk.png so what the hell is happening ? this isn't something ancient... it is css 2 so just in case I switched to % so I tried with 105%, then 112% and guess what... yet again huge difference in font size render seems like only Opera 11 and 12 render it correctly, while all other browsers are stubborn forcing their own crap so again what the hell is happening ?

I have never experienced this on my win7

I would like to see them also. Can you confirm that the 2nd and 4th screenshot that Jorge reposted above from Thurrott are from that build? no they aren't those were only concept pic's but 3rd one IS from leaked build, and was re-enabled by user known to beta scene named Ken Oath (I have his video doing it if anyone is interested to see) he re-enabled 80% activity centers (then)

I don't understand why is everyone so afraid that this metro crap will take over the world MS does not make standards, people do why comply to their crap designs ?