XX: I know. I had repeatable system crashes with a single theme. Others worked better. Still, if an application crashes because of a theme, it's the guilt of the app developer as well. BakerStreet: don't say anything you know nothing about Draginol: First. What do you mean under a "long time"? In my opinion a week of extensive usage and tests for 16 hours a day is mo
Bakerstreet, let me disagree with you: there're STILL reasons to use shell replacements even now. Let me name them: 1) Resource usage. Even with modern P4 processors there are tasks, which need a considerable amount of RAM and CPU. In some reasons Explorer is coming more and more resource hungry from one version to another. That's a fact. Still nice to mention, that its latest versions are less buggy, than before <img src="../images/smiles/smile.gi
danilloOc, it's possible to run Aston and explorer: just don't deattach Explorer process in Shell Swapper. Surely, there would still be a single shell: Aston. BakerStreet: forgive me, buddy, but you seem to have troubles with reading. I'm not going to write the same over and over again. I don't know, what was the reason of such troubles, but as they ramained on at least three absolutely different computer configurations, WB and Windows version
I'm glad you're happy with WB, BakerStreet. In case you need some samples, OK, I'll give them: A) System crashes. Somehow WB managed to crash the whole system (I'm using Windows XP, so this is not a trivial task) when applying a certain skin (checked trice: you press a button on the skin and then must reboot your PC). Had absolutely no such problems with MSStyles, eFX, etc... Window skinning bugs: on certain windows headers and window elements
Kapsules is a Windows widget engine. It might even be called the next of kin of Mac OS konfabulator . So, let's take a closer look. Kapsules is a free software with all related advantages and disadgantages. Released by Carbon 6 it has a
It's a pity, that some developers trend to ignore groups of people, that cannot afford a legal copy of their software. No, I'm not talking about ones, spending tens of bucks a day for beer, but not willing to pay the same money for an app they like. In some contries, like Russia, where the salary of an average person is rarely more, than $100 a month (that's hardly
It might be not too honest for me to write about a competing application (I belong to a volunteer Aston support/design group), but all written below is my personal opinion. In other words, here I speak for myself as a user. According to the official homepage , Talisman is a
Greetings, user. This time I'd liked to tell you about some interesting skinnable apps I use myself in my daily work. The first one is called AltDesk . AltDesk is a VDM application, so its main task is managing virtual Desktops. First of all, what for do you
Draginol, let me argue a bit. Believe or not, but the number of people, using Aston because of its small resource usage is larger, than you think Yes, you're right, customization features are important (but don't mix adding usability features and adding eye-candy features). I'm not goint to blame WB for its bugs in the past, rather than I won't argue with the fact, that Aston had
Well, Draginol, you're true here. These programs have quite a different target groups. WB is first of all a decoration tool while Aston is often used because of its small resource usage and stability. Probaly upcoming A2 would compete with DesktopX, but not with WB (as far as I know Gladiators are not going to reproduce Stardock's deed of making a window decoration tool for Windows). At present time Aston is mainly competing with the Talisman 2 (which
Aston Shell. New experience. A couple of days ago Gladiators Software has released the version 1.9.1 of their excellent application, Aston . Aston shell is a powerful and flexible shell replacement application... Well, OK, you can read this
Welcome to SacRat's blog Greeting to everyone. My name is Taras ( SacRat ) Brizitsky and I'd liked to introduce you my personal blog. Starting from today I plan to write few articles about customizing your Windows PC. Surely, there are Stardock articles already, but they're only the top of the iceberg. Digging a litt
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