EULA of Windowblinds?

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Are you allowed to use Windowblinds of multiple pcs, as long as their your pcs?

I have Windowblinds now on one pc, a Vista Home Basic machine to give it the look of Home Premium.

May wanna try verasion 6.0 when it comes out on a xp machine.

Oh, and can a mod answer this as well: How much of a performance hit is Windowblinds?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
As long as you are only using WB on one PC ata time, you are cool.

And I don't see any hit.    
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There is technically likely to be some hit compared to Windows Classic (i.e. the 98/2000 interface). However, WindowBlinds is generally more efficient than Windows Luna (the XP interface), because the code for that hasn't changed since 2001. The performance impact depends on the skin, but most people are perfectly fine using even skins with per-pixel borders on GeForce 3/Radeon 9800-class cards. It shouldn't be something you notice. Oh, and WindowBlinds 5.5 should run very well on XP, so no need to wait.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
As long as you are only using WB on one PC ata time, you are cool.


I thought that got revised slightly to some along 'as long as you're the main user'

(Not at home to check)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
but most people are perfectly fine using even skins with per-pixel borders on GeForce 3/Radeon 9800-class cards.

I can confirm that Geforce 4 and Radeon 9800 are very nice and more than capable of serving all the effects.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
The only reason it's the Xp machine is because it can't use vista... LOL, it's a celeron 500 with 256 megs sdram and a geforce 4... and a 4 gig hdd... even for a old machine it is pretty good (but needs a hdd, but why would I buy it one??)
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
(but needs a hdd, but why would I buy it one??)

Harddrives are cheap...
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Why would it be worth it? I have a:

Core 2 Quad
2 Core 2 duos
2 athlon xps

And this POS celeron 500 which is the only xp machine. Would it be worth it to upgrade it's hdd??

I only want to load windowblinds to the old machine because it's become an entertainment machine, not a real machine anymore, and I want the os to look nice.

Notice that I said entertainment machine. I worded that carefully. It could mean emulation, or it could mean I loaded it up with a good sound system and put ogg vorbis files on the system (Which may be closer to the truth).

Even then, 2 gigs is enough for about 700 ogg songs, so I don't really feel like rushing out to get a 100 gig hdd for the dying machine.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
YOU MAY:
1. Install and use one copy of the
SOFTWARE on a single computer.
2. Install a second copy of the SOFTWARE on a
second computer only if you are the main user of
this computer (home computer or laptop for
example).
3. Install the SOFTWARE on another computer only
if you change your main workstation. In such a case
you must uninstall the software from the old
computer.
4. Use the SOFTWARE via a network, only if you
have purchased an adequate number of licenses.
The number of users must not exceed the number of
licenses you have purchased.
5. Make a copy of the SOFTWARE for archival
purposes only.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
The other pcs are business and gaming. If even you don't notice a slowing down of speed, it's there.

I wouldn't put it on the others anyway. Just the home basic and the xp machine.

Now then, about harddrives being cheap...