"To customize my Windows GUI I use.. " poll comments

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I just "voted" on the current poll ("To customize my Windows GUI I use...") and thought that it would be nice now what all the other voters are using.
So if you voted "Something else" (like me, again), what are you using then?!

/me is using HvD, if anyone was interested.. no?! Didn't think so!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Snow, you crazyman, HvD doesn't skin the windows.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ahh, but there's a difference between windows and Windows (I think the poll meant the former, but it says the latter).
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hoverdesk doesn't change the Windows GUI. It's a shell / shell enhancer. It doesn't make Notepad or MS Word look any different.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Windowblinds of course. Then for my shell I use Hoverdesk, DesktopX, ObjectBar and Nextstart.



Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WindowBlinds and Litestep, the only way to fly.

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Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hoverdesk and WindowBlinds.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Classic", plus some enhanced colour tweaks, making my screen pure white (which enables me to see what's on my screen when the sun is shining on it).
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh and by the way, Hoverdesk or any other shell replacement or enhancer does change the Windows GUI. Exit ugly start menu and taskbar, enter sweetness.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's semantics. Hoverdesk, Litestep, DesktopX, ObjectBar, etc. do not customize the Windows GUI. They can customize themselves and replace the shell but not the UI.

Which is why I didn't include ObjectBar, HOverdesk, NextStart, etc.

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Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well...when the "Windows GUI' is Explorer.exe, then I just chuck out the old GUI and use one that 'works'....and LiteSTEP works soooo well with Windowblinds...
Technically speaking though, the question 'should' be "What do you use to change the 'G' in your 'UI'?"...
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Surely if you replace the GUI with LS, HvD , DX, etc, then they become the GUI? (After all, the user is using that program to interface with Windows)
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm, so this here start button and this here taskbar are not part of the gui eh? Well well... Let's see here, they're graphical, they're aimed to wards the user and they let the user interface with the machine.

/me thinks he just saw froggy trip over his tongue there
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Crae...your 'monitor' is 'graphical' and it's a 'user interface'....

/me gets out the spray-can to do some skinning...
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Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use duct tape and a 3 pound sledge hammer...

I seem to go through a lot of monitors that way, though...
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo, I just realized that until this thing we call skinning came along the word skinning referred to the removing of a skin or pelt.

Leave it to this lot to use the same word for the opposite meaning.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
when I am on a good mood I use Windowblinds, on sad days I use windowblinds, but when I am not sure, then I use Windowblinds.

btw: this Ligh Blue skin by Alexandrie seems to be my most used skin lately, so I am figuring why....maybe because it is gorgeous!
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
motion....yes....perhaps it should be 'Cladding'...
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Calling myself a 'Cladder' doesn't have the same ring to it.

treetog;
I was just thinking how I too have been using Light Blue more often. It is a lovely skin, and I find it works with almost any Wallpaper and Icons. This was such a fine example of skinning (there's that word again ) at it's most impressive.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No it's not...........
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Randy....a truism...you will never convince a StyleXP-er that all he is using is an un-authorised and unsupported registry hack which accesses the same old slow MS Skinning Engine built in to XP....