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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gai Daigoji on May 17, 2005, 03:38:14 pm

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Gai Daigoji on May 17, 2005, 03:38:14 pm

Does anyone have any good sites that contain the above? Many thanks. :)

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Dunbar on May 17, 2005, 04:15:02 pm

I'm a huge fan of Litestep myself.  I'm using it at the moment and have my dekstop looking like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/Plicat/flodesk.jpg (you get that menu every time you rightclick on your desktop).

 If you want to try it, just go here:
http://beyondconvention.net/ohussain/lsinstaller/

I've also tried Blackbox for windows and BBlean and both are pretty cool, you might want to check those out

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Genryu on May 17, 2005, 04:27:52 pm

Personnaly, I use Geoshell (http://www.geoshell.com/) . But then, to each his own :D

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Taristin on May 17, 2005, 05:10:13 pm

I seem to have a program called StyleXP3.03 in my shared folder. Dunno how or why i got it. I haven't even openned that archive yet. :wtf:

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: MicroPsycho on May 17, 2005, 06:59:52 pm

I am currently using StyleXP 3.0 or something, its good. Nothing to fancy, mostly just colour sche,e changes but some of the stuff is pretty creative.

I've also used Astonshell (http://www.astonshell.com/) awhile back and even went as far as making my own theme. Both are good shell replacements though.

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 17, 2005, 08:12:48 pm

Geoshell is good. I have a shot of it in the Desktop thread with a self-made skin, if you're interested.

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Setekh on May 17, 2005, 08:19:16 pm

Yeah, put it up WMC. I'm just running a humble WindowBlinds skin over here... :)

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 17, 2005, 08:24:31 pm

Screenie: http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=672116

The thread I posted the skin dl in is here:
http://battletechmodproductions.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=60;t=5488;st=0;&#entry91652

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Setekh on May 17, 2005, 08:43:49 pm

Cool. Nice bar of shortcuts you got there. ;)

Does it chew up much memory?

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: demon442 on May 17, 2005, 10:13:33 pm

Aston is great if you dont mind paying, or dont mind "not paying".

Im using litestep myself, tried blackbox, but am still a huge fan of aston.

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 18, 2005, 02:14:19 am

According to the Win2k task manager, with just it and Firefox open, geoshell.exe is only using 2120k of real memory, and 4668 k of VM. :)

That's due to it being pretty minimalist; everything is done via plug-ins. (ie I don't have a desktop plugin installed right now, or else my screen would be mighty more cluttered. ;) )

Title: Good Windows XP Shell Replacements
Post by: Kamikaze on May 18, 2005, 02:24:44 am

Blackbox is pretty good, it's very minimalistic though. If only fluxbox were ported to Windows...

http://bb4win.org/news.php