re: Why use third-party apps?
Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 5:39 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Shaun
(1 messages posted)
You are exactly right. And these people that are mentioning the fact that it sounds
like a third party program have no idea. The patch merely changes code to the original
.dll file that allows you to bypass the microsoft guard against anything but their
themes. It is just a hack. And a needed one at that. Windows blinds is not only
an intelligent con but a hog on resources and even if you run a high end machine,
you should try to run your computer at it's best if you ask me, or don't bother moaning
about it when things start going wrong or crashing because of all the junk added
to the registry and system directories by windows blinds and the like. I ran the
patch and the themes are then run native to winxp rather than using lazy and sloppy
coded third party programs like windows blinds...
Dessnr.
On Monday, May 24, 2004 at 10:30 am, Quiller wrote:
>There is no real need to use a third-party app like WindowBlinds or StyleXP to make
>XP look pretty. Microsoft did it right when they set up the process for applying
>Themes... unfortunately, they also added a requirement that any theme has to be
"approved"
>by Microsoft... StyleXP was smart in that they simply bypass that requirement. Any
>theme from themexp.org or wincustomize.org that is intended for StyleXP can run
WITHOUT
>StyleXP sitting in the background hogging resources. Get a little program called
>Patch XP and you'll be free to use any theme just like switching from Windows XP
>to Windows Classic themes...
- Written in response to:
- Why use third-party apps? (Quiller: Monday, May 24, 2004 at 10:30 am)
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