I like rocket dock but Thooseje's Side Bar sends CPU usage on my machine to 100%, which is completely unnecessary.
What do you guys use? I'd like a nice clock and weather reporter. I'd also like a cumulative bandwidth usage odometer if that exists. Thooseje's had some of that stuff, but I'm not a fan of the interface or the crazy system resources it uses.
I'm using XP as an OS. Give me advice! I'm a computer noob that just wants some nice little gadgets and I don't know the best way to do it!
ah...thoosje's sidebar is ok but ya it just makes the cpu usage go up to 100% and then i end turning it off...imo though i dont find any use for side bars and im on vista
On November 30 2008 10:32 sith wrote: I use Rainmeter, which so far I've found very unobtrusive and light, as well as extremely customizable.
That looks really nice. I've been messing around with it and I can find a skin with the features I like. Which one are you using there?
I think it's probably the Black Glass skin? (Black Glass). I remember it coming up before in one of the Desktop threads...
Also, I don't know how useful to you this might be, but a quick Google'ing revealed The Ultimate Windows XP Customization Guide, although I don't think it mentions any of the dock, clock, or weather programs that you're looking for.
Another nice app is dexpot: http://www.dexpot.de/index.php?lang=en which allows you to have up to 20 virtual "desktops" on your comp, if you like running zillions of programs at once with zillions of windows open.
i have rocketdock on my desktop on autohide, its pretty convenient I also use Launchy a lot, its a program someone posted here a while ago, you bring it up and type the name of the file/program you want to use and it launches it. good shit. rainmeter looks fun
On November 30 2008 10:32 sith wrote: I use Rainmeter, which so far I've found very unobtrusive and light, as well as extremely customizable.
That looks really nice. I've been messing around with it and I can find a skin with the features I like. Which one are you using there?
The name of that specific skin is HUD.vision. Be careful when downloading it though, there are a lot of infected versions around, at least from what I've found.
Good luck though. Can send it to you if you can't find it.
On November 30 2008 10:24 ManaBlue wrote: caelym, how do you access your start menu, or manage multiple windows without a task bar?`
I assume he has it on pop up else use windows key and alt+tab and click on the window you want. It's just hidden if you really want to get rid of it have ot use resource hacker to mod explorer.exe
On November 30 2008 10:15 ManaBlue wrote: I'd like a nice clock and weather reporter.
Objectdock ObjectDock It's got a nice clock and weather reporter, its pretty much an upgraded version of rocketdock Lol I go to ctr + alt + del and end process explorer.exe. This way my desktop looks clean ^_^ and with objectdock I have all my shortcuts and windows. Here is what object dock looks like >_>
EPT
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