Stylexp Or Windows Blinds?

[leonidas]

One point also is the use of ressources. My styleXP uses 10Mb of memory usage.
Maybe someone could tell how much win-Blind uses.

[MUSLEMAN]

have your stylexp run in the background with no resources, choose it from options,
for xp i vote stylexp

[Xelotath]

How about neither, I find Aston to be much muh better. I suggest you try iy out.

[sparsely]

Aston is the only one that does enough to make a third-party app acceptable.
Otherwise, go low-impact and get the patch.

[asmithz]

I like aston and window blinds.

[RedRival]

I just installed Style XP 1.01p.

It's doing ok so far. But this patch sounds atractive, because I hate programs running in the background, esp when you play agame and it lags and you know what maybe causing it.

Maybe I'll try the patch...

[RedRival]

I just installed the patch but I've no idea how to use it...

the visual style i'm using has only got a msstyles file and a shell folder. I got no idea how to apply it.

It seems liek I need a theme file. Can the patch install a visual style with only .msstyles file???

[sparsely]

put your theme files in
%Systemroot%\Resources\Themes

[adamp2p]

DONT buy the Style crap XP!!! Download the patch, but make sure to execute it in SAFE MODE only!!! If you are a newb, watch out!

Download the Neowin edition or search google for Lightstars version, just make sure to read the read me!

[RedRival]

omg the patch is so annoying.

i decided to go back to using my cracked version of style xp.

What I did,

downloaded the auto-installer, i restarted, and when I tried using a msstyle by double-clicking on it, display properties pop up but no visual style loaded.

so I thought it didn't get installed properly. So I uninstalled and reinstalled the patch, still to no avail.

So I got frustrated with the auto-installer, and tried the manual patch instead for SP1.

When I was doing it, I realise I don't have the folder 'dllcache' under system32 folder.

Till then, I already got annoyed, so I decided to use system restoration to totally get rid of the changes I incidentally made in the process.

I had an error system restoring. I don't care whether the dll caused it, but whatever it is, the bloody patch frustrated me as hell.

Back to style xp for me.