Re: XP's ugly Start button

From: classd101 (c_bielek_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: 5 Feb 2005 01:02:23 -0800

Guy Macon <_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote in message news:<11083am549002af@corp.supernews.com>...
> ...is just one more reason to switch to Linux.
>
> Here is a much better reason to switch to Linux:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=gates+focus+interview

An even better reason is because updates will only be available for
those with legal versions :) I'm sure there'll be a work around
though.. ahem.

XP "style"... blech. Regardless of whether or not you like the XP
style, the fact remains it is simply a theme, and themes are simply
resource hogs, in fact it's enough of a hog that lesser computers
can't be run with it enabled, yet work more than fine without it. Even
if your computer can handle the load, you still have to wait around
for it to finish animating every little menu and ...... no.

Press windows logo key + pause (properties hotkeys), click advanced,
click on settings under performance, scroll through the window just to
see all the junk they've got enabled, then click on "adjust for best
performance" and apply it.

Then you can go a step further and go into services to disable themes
so that it doesn't even load at boot (start/run "services.msc" but
that probably wont' work on home edition. You can still use the newer
start menu like this, and it has a plain vanilla icon! Also right
click on the start menu, properties, beside "start menu" (first one,
not the classic) click on customize. You'll then see "select an icon
size for programs" select small icon.

Of course if you find the grey look depressing, you can still mess
with colors through desktop properties just like before.

Linux is great, but know thy enemy.

Regards