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 >_>
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.
Thats correct, the skin is black glass. I've sent more pm's about it than I care to remember actually, I think I have a preset one that i just send to whoever asks.
It's called "rainmeter" and you can download whatever modules people have made for it. Download "rainmeter" here, (don't download rainlender, thats different) http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/legacy.html
and @prOxi.swAMi, I'm not incredible sure why it says that, but I'm not about to go try to figure out how to modify the skin to get rid of it when it takes up such a miniscule amount of space.
Ok, well after screwing around with this stuff for a while I've got a rain meter theme I like and rocket dock is working well for me. I've decided I like the task bar and I'm going to leave it down there, but I'd like to modify it to be less obtrusive.
What are you guys using to make your start button a unique icon and your task bars dark and transparent? I gotta get that going on mine before I'll be satisfied with the look.
On December 01 2008 07:41 Descent wrote: Here. You need to change your theme/visual style to change the start button, task bar, and applications windows.
On the topic, does anyone use Object Desktop? I've run litestep for many years, but like some of the things Object Desktop says it can do to menus and dialogs, so I was thinking about trying both. I'm just not sure they'd work together because litestep gets rid of the standard shell.
I've always has that problem if there is a way to set lock the window positions i haven't checked I don't play sc alot anymore so it's never been a bother. Maybe ill check out the rain meter commands/script see if i can set positions on a screen.
Oh well i couldn't make it stay there but i found a semi patch for it Change the Rainmeter.ini to read-only By doing that all you have to do is close and reopen rainmeter and the stuff should stay in the same place.
Yeah, when your comp changes screen resolution rainmeter adjusts to the new resolution. It will do that for any program that goes full screen in a resolution different from your comps resolution.
The only way i can think of is the modify the window size of each thing to fit your max resolution and position it on there but that would require some mess around time for anymore read only is much simpler.
EPT
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