vinifera

I'd be dead before I let any provider store my data

I can give you start orb from win7 alpha build 6801 which is different from both RTM and RC

I personally consider win "7" to be tweaked vista with better file manager (UI wise) and taskbar nothing more but since it is newer, and more polished (yes I think vista was rushed), I chosen to use win "7"

you can install these packs but atleast for your own safety be sure its from verified source, for example from deviantart where people commented on it usually when explorer or ieframe is patched, they make it so you have info panel in explorer below address bar (as Longhorn had) and not at the bottom (as vista/7 have) also by patching explorer they are changing start button icon which isn't in .msstyle

its only unsafe if you install "packs" which include modified dll's (ieframe etc...) and explorer.exe (longhorn themes often have this) but .msstyle itself is harmless also you don't have to patch uxtheme, you can use (not advertising) rafael riviera's uxstyle (which is service running and in-memory patcher - thus theoretically not illegal )

we don't care what you are there again we don't care doing something onto either a project or creation of another without original author's permition is disgusting

you can see on picture that time is freezed

unfortunately user from BetaArchive called Pwned cracked Startisback and distributes it on his own

finally a metro killer

believe it or not, I didn't have time kinda rush last 2 weeks and I always planned to do it I'll report back when I do

you missed quite alot

@rant of start screen the concept behind start screen is good bud terrible executed (like all MS ideas ) screens are big and long these days and could remove need of start menu but only if you could have either tabbed (or "modern" buttoned) sections instead subfolders that menu has and you'd simply have icons with names below nicely named and sorted just like in folder there's no need for useless scrolling or intrusive full screen crap this don't take rocket scientist to make but they fail at any UX design and make it crap I still fail to see how they can say they spend hundreds thousands of $ on user testing and experience when in final product they always serve garbage

it still beats the DWM requirement as it was GeForce 5/Radeon 9500 for it to work as I remember

LOL I think there are MANY that will argue, rightly or wrongly, with that statement. I also agree that Vista was probably underrated, but that is not the point well said Vista as itself has nothing that much radical improved over XP I personally only liked the introduction of DWM which removes the GDI limitations that XP had which caused that OS to be totally unusable

not on taskbar but you can make shortcut, put it to quick launch bar then right click on taskbar and choose Unlock taskbar, now you can see borders of quick launch then right click in empty space of quick launch bar, click on View -> Large icons (set size of icons to be near big as taskbar ones) good thing with quick launch is that you can make multiple separate bars and place them to right or left of taskbar you can also center your icons on taskbar by using quick launch to be like on mac os

without doing all that stuff could it be because my GPU is direct x 9 and I remember that Vista's DWM (longhorn) was actually dx9 but since win7 emulates dx9 unlike 10 and 11 cant it be coz of my gpu being dx9 and win7 emulation of it ?

+ its ugly its clunky its less efficient

offtopic: even with transparency that OS look so butchered up even reminds me on stardock windowblinds when theme was screwed up and it rendered exactly like here on pictures

I'm bit lost I have good machine to run win7 CPU dual core AMD Athlon (X2 5050e) 3 GB ddr2 RAM and high end GPU GeForce 7950 GT yet with DWM on, explorer takes 2 secs to open browsing through folders lags going into pictures folders and enabling thumbnails takes up to 15 seconds to show them with DWM off, everything is instant, 1 to 2 seconds shouldn't the effect be reversed ? shouldn't the system with GPU usage (which is superior than CPU) be faster ? (at least in drawing/showing things)

until you get thingy like "security sphere 2012" then you will cry

isn't simple uxtheme patch enough ? borders are pictures anyway, no need for hacks

take in consideration that they don't want to give security updates later to claim XP (NT 5.1/2) are less secure than NT 6 series thus the famous "upgrade to Windows ..." whatever its name is

to me whole MS approach is stupid bgates once in past said that purpose of SP to him would be only to deploy patches but even when "last" SP's are being released, there are tons of patches later by the logic there should be "end-SP" that would deliver last "wave" of patches and then to end the product support just look how many patches XP has after SP3... its hilarious

usually when new OS gets SP1 old one gets SP2

I find UI on that fresh paint thingy totally unusable