Windows Vista...how pretty

Well - this stuff all sounds nice and spiffy - but I'll stick to XP and Dopus 8.1 (http://www.gpsoft.com) for now...

 

XP's windowed transparency tends to be very slow, particulary on large windows. Vista renders everything via the 3D pipeline (in fully accelerated mode) so it should blaze on anything even remotely powerful. It also does font AA in hardware too.

Transparent window borders is good if you need to check out something behind another window. Windows has HUGE "visual overhead" since it has a menu bar attached to virtually every window, and often multiple toolbars as well. Making at least some of these areas see-through will be a big benefit IMO.

 

It's pretty but it's very beta.
I dont even like playing around with it.
Mainly installing things takes way longer than in xp and video acceleration isn't working so windows behaves likes it has no video driver- drawing eats up cpu and takes a long time.
Disabling accellation under display props didn't help like it does in xp either

 

The GUI seems nice compared to the barebone XP GUI but it is barelly superior to XP GUI with some additions such as Style XP.
In fact i expected much more from the Vista GUI.
I would have like to see a true 3D GUI such as Sphere XP.
We shall wait the Beta 2 to find out what would be the real power of the GUI.

 

i find StyleXP very good. i tried Object Dock and it reasource hog (at least on my comp).
it does offer some nice features and shortcuts, but nothing i will die for.
having 2 tabs really slows down my comp.... maybe its combination of Dock and Style, but i'll go for StyleXP....

they are doing great job, adding more and more option in every major release.

 

StyleXP is excellent.
In fact i expected that Vista GUI would be a combinaison of StyleXP and Sphere XP:
http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshots.htm

 

My install of vista at the end said there was error with the boot files, but it had the new boot menu and it also had my windows xp under legacy OS or something.
I do love the new gui, it's really was xp should have been imo, the design is much better.
I like where it's going with UAP and all that stuff since most programs require admin privs so you have to give noobs a admin account (reluctantly) so they can install stuff.
But uh ya.. beta 2 should prove interesting.

 

A great look is everything to most people. What's under the hood isn't as interesting by far to almost everyone.

 

Not surprisingly - looks is what most typical users perceive in Windows. They are not interested in what changed in the driver model etc.
The only interesting thing i want to play with at the moment are unattended installations - Vista has some nice improvements there.

 

Well IIRC there was some (beta?) version of WinFS in the previous builds and it was everything just no fast. When i booted into win, my hdd didn't stop for like 10mins when it was doing *something* and kept cpu usage at approx. 50%.

 

Does anyone know how to get rid of the weather docklet on Vista Inspirat? I have two and neither work.

 

i generally fear prettiness in an o/s!
i nearly freaked when i first saw the grouped version of Control Panel in XP

i like things lean and work friendly
i have a grand total of 17 services running: two of those are added (Diskeeper and Kerio Personal Firewall) and one wouldn't really be necessary (Themes) but for the XP look

can you sort folders alongside files in order of size?
the size used for folders being the sum of their contents

i want the drive buttons back dammit!
and not just for Explorer - for any folder i happen to open
and yes, i know you can drop down a list from the address bar

 

... why can't i get transparent windows? I've intalled that Vista style theme thing you posed, silence... And i have an NV35, is it not DX9 enough?

 

dunno...wasnt around for some time....
maybe you have some other software that is fighting with this.... i couldnt get all the goodies cause i have StyleXp installed....

it prolly depends on what software you have on your comp.....

 

You're confusing Vista Style with the actual Vista OS when it comes translucency and graphics power needed.

 

Well it worked for silence!!


Ok i'll just wait for Vista, i would have NO idea what kind of software is interfering with it so i'll just wait. I have a LOT of programs installed.

 

kinda worked...i think it had big fight with StyleXP
specially after i used one to change background set by the other....