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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on June 16, 2004, 01:31:45 pm

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: Fineus on June 16, 2004, 01:31:45 pm

I'm bored with explorer. Sure it works and all that but I want to try something new and exciting... preferably with an already strong community for skins and so forth.

Does anyone have any recommendations, or should I be shot for wishing to stray from Mr.Gates' dreams?

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: 01010 on June 16, 2004, 01:40:48 pm

BURN THE INFIDEL!

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: redsniper on June 16, 2004, 01:58:37 pm

you mean like...  Longhorn?

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: Martinus on June 16, 2004, 02:03:25 pm

[color=66ff00]No he means explorer or liteshell or whatever you call it.

TBH I've just stuck with explorer, I've tried a bunch of other shells in the past and the setup was generally so inflexable I went back to  explorer. The only exception was when I was running 98SE I used an ultra light shell made for games, it simply allowed you to choose a game from a list so explorer.exe and all it's dependancies were never loaded. Was good for cramming every last bit of performance out of my old 300K6.

I'd love to see a KDE style shell for windows; more options than a pricey BMW.
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Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: Fineus on June 16, 2004, 02:08:53 pm

Meh, I can probably crack whatever I need - but I've taken a look at the likes of Aston and I might have tried Lightstep as well... not really gotten into much depth before losing heart in it though.

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: kasperl on June 16, 2004, 02:09:38 pm

Meag: where did you get that?

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: Martinus on June 16, 2004, 02:36:17 pm

[color=66ff00]The Game OS Kas? If so here: Linky (www.voodoofiles.com/3435)
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Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: kasperl on June 16, 2004, 02:37:02 pm

Yeah, thanks.

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: Grey Wolf on June 16, 2004, 03:14:34 pm

Umm.... I just use Explorer with an alternate file browser. Sometimes, if I'm bored, I'll use a dll hack and use alternate skins.

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: Liberator on June 16, 2004, 03:24:26 pm

Aston is good, some of the skins are kind of buggy.

Litestep is good also, but a lot of the skins are conversions from Linux and don't quite make the shift like they should.  Some of them make the computer crash outright and it becomes a pain to rollback to something that works with 8 character names in DOS.

Title: Your favourite Windows shell?
Post by: demon442 on June 16, 2004, 11:30:17 pm

Aston is my personal fav.  True, some skins are a bit buggy, but with a little adaptation they are fine.  And its cheap if you plan on paying.