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ain't it just enough to create folders on this locations ?
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if you mean blue line on your borders, yes on vista that is normal
the ms team wanted to express "glass" look/cut with that
it is also found in Alpha versions of Vista (Longhorn), tho they contain green lines and not blue
while win "7" has that removed since I guess it annoyed people too much
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talking about up to date stuff
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I'd say ANYTHING else except IE and its shell clones
so it would be or Opera or Firefox or Chrome based ones
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I'd be confused too
simple logic
I turn on PC, I get greeted by this screen of squares (tiles)
I click on one of them
it either drops me into another confusing flat area or desktop without any icons and menus
so while I try to find minimize or X button or start menu or ANYTHING
I also stumble upon various sidebars popping out when i come with mouse in certain screen edges
and those bars provide some more confusing "functionality"
screw that
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you could probably try to take explorer.exe from
windows 7 alpha build 6469, as this was earliest build leaked which explorer.exe used Vista file manager shell
you would have to change its version with PE Explorer and imagecfg if Vista is to even accept it
not sure if such early build had these features of snap's and shake's though
and you would most probably either get random error messages because of win 7 superbar integrated init
to which vista has no calls of it, your skin would probably messed up too since values for skin segments
were changed and some added for new superbar
or OS would simply refuse to even start up explorer at all (test it in Virtual Machine is safest way to see)
but as people told above, better to use tested and safe method of 3rd party app than messing around like this
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not without source code
explorer and shell would need that thing updated
and 6.1 isn't compatible with 6.0
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ironic thing that article that links site as its source "fixingwindows8.com" is gone
maybe MS didn't like the naked truth
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well Adobe Audition (in my case v1.5) does it
but in past I did encounter some more apps doing the same
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the only and only thing I like 8 will have and both 7/vista lack
is DWM in non DWM compliant apps, as they turn off DWM then and spit user out in Basic (XP) theme engine where we lose
the functionality of mainly important taskbar which is frustrating if you work in just 1 program that disables all that
and you still use OS for other things
(sorry if I intruded this topic btw)
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I was always more facinated by demos in macromedia director that MS made
with that beautiful Blue and Green Plex
shows how much they wanted to copy OSX back then lol
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there are some simple answers here to complex conversation
Even if some might be capable to re-learn all that, who says that they will want to?
MS don't care for what someone wants, they are just like Red Alert 2 called them (lol), "MassiveSoft", they make massive production for masses who are forced to use their crap
I just don't get it, my mind is unwilling to accept that this is the reality we're facing.
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Yeah, then reality kicks in. I can't comprehend why they are doing this
because they can
because they lead in desktop market, as in their OS runs on almost any hardware and like 90% games are made just for their platform
thus they set the rules
Why force Metro on those who do not want it?
so they can force "new" standard
(they actually call this innovating lol)
Windows 8 feels like doing my work and getting a kick in the balls from time to time.
When I complain about not wanting to get kicked in the balls, I get told that I'll get used to it
yep, thats the forced regime
Sorry if the following image is a bit poor in taste, but it succinctly illustrates my Metro experience thus far:
I'll actually use the last part with toilet on my web article
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I actually had more problems on SP0
SP1 addressed some issues (atleast it seems so)
but I didn't patch the RTM but format and installed "7" with integrated SP1
(btw I don't use win update, I'm sceptic about their patches fuxing up everything)
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if you want different UI, then you need to make new shell
to make new shell you need to know programming and NT API/hooks to make it usable
making custom theme(skin) alone will not make such radical change
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*small update
someone edited
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=11732
they prolonged the time now for all versions
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I can't remember when I last time clicked on that show desktop button in corner
still using quick launch one
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the left nav bar
in seven its more appropriate separated
making groups of separate things
while vista has it all squeezed together making using it like crap
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2. so much easier to use not crowded and klunky as vista's
they made it better by separating things in groups
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its a System process which should be shielded
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quoting guy from article...
challenge someone to list 7 reasons why Windows 7 is better than Windows Vista1. has MinWin with kernel
2. much better file manager
3. not so agressive with RAM pre-alocating aka eating it
4. much improved taskbar, the old stacking was terrible and thumbnails in vista were useless
5. Win7 was built on top of Vista SP1 codebase, so yeah its better by default
6. is more modular with components/removal than vista is
7. ... ?
I'm missing 7th
... so they don’t really count. Those could easily be implemented into Vistawell hell, you can say that for Vista -> XP, XP has capability of many things that Vista had ...
Microsoft later attempted to “prove” that they had fixed Vista with the Mojave Experiment ...Evidently, over 90% of the participants thought it was great and an improvement over XP
this was a scam, nobody even wondered what uneducated IT people did they pick
and what educated IT ones they did, and how many
Now, if there were a way to recreate the "convex" Vista-style taskbar without resorting to error-prone hacksthere is a way, but doubt you'd want to go that way
Windows 7 build 6801, last one that had Vista taskbar in use (while new taskbar was disabled), and you still get Windows 7 explorer
basically you'd run Vista SP1 with Windows 7 explorer and Direct X 10.1
but no updates would work that of Win 7 RTM/SP1
and you'd have a bit buggier OS with some features missing that are in RTM of 7
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I'm annoyed how in both XP and Win 7 (and probably vista is no better)
you or if you make an app, can enter/login as System so easy
security sucks in windows...
heck just look how easy you can terminate PC, just kill crss system (its hilarious how you actually are allowed to do it)
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10 Advantages of Windows 7
1. A better desktop.
2. Smarter search
3. Easy sharing with HomeGroup
4. Built for speed
5. Better wireless networking
6. Windows Touch
7. Plays well with devices
8. Watch, listen, and stream
9. Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Live
10. Nag-free notifications
1. how better ? O_o
2. not really, needs long arse indexing
4. so was XP
6. very little home users uses it
7. XP does not ?
8. what the hell ?
9. not by default, not to mention far better alternatives to IE... its ridiculous to even call IE an advantage of OS ...
10. UAC is nag free ?
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well Win7's taskbar was in beggining simmiliar to vista's tho it had more gradient look (M1-M2 builds)
as for "lite", I agree here, AFAIK vista had frame rate issues with DWM, and honestly only with SP2 vista can be compared with Win7
for unknown reason it was slow to me, and quite unresponsive in some areas
not to mention that annoying copy and delete bug where they put calculating as priority more than doing the **** job itself ...
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for MS, desktop is dead
that will be their undoing
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Diagnostic Service Host service
in Windows 7
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i noticed in event viewer often that "The Diagnostic Service Host service" either started or stopped running state
what does it do and is this normal or should I worry about something ?
i'm on SP1