Aston Shell Uses Less Resources?

[DanB]

Originally posted by fred devliegher@3 May 2004 - 15:53
Alrighty then -

-Installed Astonshell and switched. Works.
-Switched to Nintendo theme B)
-Messed around for 10 minutes before all the links worked properly
-Not convinced yet, but it's not bad either.

Now - the v3.1 universal crack : any good ?

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Like you I had to fiddle around to get all the links working porperly and get into some sort of shape where I knew what was what.

I ahvent made my mind up yet but I have only had it installed for an hour


I have a patch for it if you need it Fred?

[Lite]

Originally posted by danb@3 May 2004 - 16:37
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Thats exactly the same theme i use on my win2k virtual machine

And yes i find aston uses less resources than explorer

[DanB]

Originally posted by Lite+3 May 2004 - 19:03--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Lite @ 3 May 2004 - 19:03)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-danb@3 May 2004 - 16:37
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Thats exactly the same theme i use on my win2k virtual machine

And yes i find aston uses less resources than explorer [/b][/quote]
Really?

Its a good skin but I found that it was using loads of cpu resources like 54%. i think its probably the 4 video screens in the top left causing the problem but I liked them there

[fred devliegher]

I have a patch for it if you need it Fred?

Nope

But thanks anyway &#33;

[Lite]

Originally posted by danb+3 May 2004 - 18:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (danb @ 3 May 2004 - 18:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by Lite@3 May 2004 - 19:03
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@3 May 2004 - 16:37
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Thats exactly the same theme i use on my win2k virtual machine

And yes i find aston uses less resources than explorer

Really?

Its a good skin but I found that it was using loads of cpu resources like 54%. i think its probably the 4 video screens in the top left causing the problem but I liked them there [/b][/quote]
Yes its real nice
I only give my virtual machine 192MB RAM and my 1900+ (running at 1.74GHZ) is only using 1% CPU and thats with eMule with 2 downloads. I dont know why yours uses so many resources.

[Rizindon]

i need a patch for my trial thing has run out &#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

[fred devliegher]

<- the smiley is a link, not very obvious

No for something completely different : ever since I started using Aston the physical volume control buttons on the side of my computer stopped working. I can only change the volume through Control Panel, as the taskbar icon is gone to. What the ?

[DanB]

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This is the result of may afternoon tampering and I think it looks quite good.


I not sure about the volume thing Fred but I had to reinstall Messenger plus bafter installing this. If its of any benefit you can get a media player controller for your desktop, I have it on mine its in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop. That might provide a way round it at least .


Oh if you need a patch for it pm me

[fred devliegher]

Well, some minor tampering resulted in this (resized) :
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Now, the stuff I&#39;d still like to see fixed :

- Find a way to make the links on the desktop open in Firefox rather then IE
- Fix the volume control (though a reboot brought back the systray icon)
- find a theme that&#39;s "me".

But I&#39;m liking it so far &#33;