[harunaksoy]

matthewk, on Nov 28 2005, 04:46 AM, said:

Thanks for this harunaksoy, you rock

hehe thanks here's the register file to show it as the default view, this ony works for XP SP2! so don't try it with another version, you might loose your tree view.

[wolf7448]

I love it!!! GREAT JOB!! must have took u some time to put it all together!

[Mocht4R]

Good work zxian!

It think you might wanna add Winroll. It just rolls up your window with a right click, its pretty nifty!

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

This post has been edited by bms: 29 November 2005 - 07:13 PM

[gunsmokingman]

Yes I am Hardcore Thanks

Zxian, on Nov 28 2005, 07:19 PM, said:

@gunsmokingman - I'll put that under the "hardcore" section of the guide.

[Lost Soul]

nice work Zxian its been awhile since i went customizing, thanks for a few of your pointers

[Martijn]

Maybe you could also include a link to Joejoe's site, it has good customisation resources.

[DarkWader]

Zxian, on Nov 24 2005, 09:22 AM, said:

The latter takes a bit of know-how, and should probably be described elsewhere by someone who's actually done it (DarkWader perhaps..?).

Ah, I didnt see this post before now.
I would have made that "howto" earlier, but since WB5 is released now, and mostly everyone has it, I wont bother doing that..
Unless someone begs me to

Its quite simple actually.
Resize the wallpaper to the screen resolution, cut the bottom of the wallpaper so that it will fit the taskbar.
Use Paintshop and create a 2 layer image, by using the taskbar bitmap and add a new layer that's around 70% opacue, paste the wallpaper cut and merge these two layers.
Use a program called ResEdit to edit the msstyle, and change the taskbar bitmap to the one you made in paintshop.

[SiMoNsAyS]

some people will also like to take a look to ÜberIcon

This post has been edited by SiMoNsAyS: 15 December 2005 - 11:56 AM

[Martijn]

It's a nice program, but it got a bit annoying somehow after a while...

[RJARRRPCGP]

Zxian, on Nov 21 2005, 02:45 PM, said:

Konfabulator - Konfabulator Link
I haven't played much with Konfabulator, but it offers a similar feature set to AveDesk. The advantage to Konfabulator is that there are hundreds upon hundreds of pre-made widgets available to download. The popularity of Konfabulator has increased recently since it used to be a paid-for software and is now freeware.

Warning, this link possibly bad. It redirected me to a site owned by Yahoo.

[Martijn]

Isn't Konfabulator a Yahoo! product??

[Zxian]

Yup... Konfabulator is now known as Yahoo Widget Engine (or something of that sort). I haven't had much time to look into it (or update the guide), since my laptop just died, and school's started again.

Wait for screenshots from a new 1680x1050 laptop screen though...

[SiMoNsAyS]

Zxian, on Jan 16 2006, 11:50 AM, said:

Wait for screenshots from a new 1680x1050 laptop screen though...

panoramic? ****!
which monitor? how much? (i'm interested on a new one )

[Zxian]

It's gonna be the Dell Inspiron 6000 with the WSXGA+ screen and 9 cell battery. 5+ hours of beautiful goodness...

[tain]

PC Mag says that the 6000 weighs in at 7lbs. How much beefier does it get when you go with the 9-cell battery?

I personally prefer thin/light laptops for portability but this one should definitely serve you well if the display is your main attraction. And that extra battery power will certainly come in handy

Lots more details at NotebookReview.

Congrats on your purchase!

[Zxian]

I'd like to try to keep this thread as clean as possible, so only on topic discussions here please.

But to answer your question, I'm not sure how much more weight the 9-cell battery adds. For me, it's carried in my backpack and still weighs less than my average textbook, so I don't really mind all that much. For me, it's the full-sized keyboard, and the larger screen that does it for me. My dad's got one of the "ultra-portable" Sony laptops, and I have troubles typing on it.

[MaelstromX]

Zxian would you mind listing exactly what you have goin on in the right (as in left/right) screenshot? Id be interested to know just what modifications you are running there (as in what themes, background image, widgets, iconpacks, etc).

thanks

[Zxian]

In my desktop screenshot, I'm using the RoyalFour theme, AveDesk, and Smaurize. The background image is just something I found from Final Fantasy X. PM me if you want specifics.

I'm actually running Windows 2003 in that screenshot, since I get it free from my university, so you can see that most of this stuff works in Win2k3 as well as XP.

[Elektrik]

FlyakiteOSX v.3.5

PS http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=75614

This post has been edited by Elektrik: 04 June 2006 - 04:43 AM

[NOJ]

any one know where i can get the image of the gun toting girl from - i like very much!!!

cheers guys