A lot of our readers are still happily using Windows XP - 36% of our users use XP, 12% Vista, and 6% Windows 7. While Windows XP is showing its age in a lot of areas, there is at least something you can do to prettify the operating system at minimal cost. In Windows XP, and to a lesser extent Windows Vista, there are still a lot of old-style icons and graphics that should be updated to more modern variants. There are free tools that do just this (thanks to IStartedSomething).
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Member since:2006-06-04
Funny, that's exactly what happened to me today . . . looking at the article at work (as things were slow and we were close to going home in any case), downloaded it and installed it, my work PC now actually looks cool.
But even better, I stuck the package on my own two PCs (desktop and laptop) at home and now they really look great, especially the desktop where the fonts always looked awful before (at 1680x1050 res) and were difficult to read. Now there is almost nothing illegible on the XP desktop - it's almost as good as my Mandriva desktops, even the smallest fonts are completely clear.
In all three cases, the software installed without any errors, and I am happy now not to resort to the 98SE-style "Classic" look.
Now, if I could only change the default language from Korean to English . . . anyway, well done, guys, you've done a great job; please keep up the good work.
EDIT: Help!!! Too many "now"s!
Edited 2009-07-30 11:33 UTC
Member since:2005-11-02
Maybe he is reading OSNews at home, maybe he is reading it during a luch break, maybe it's a calm day and is he allowed to read OSNews at work.
He appears to be a troll or MS astroturfer who goes around marking more things down than he marks up. Actually I wrote that post in the evening from home (convert UTC to EST) using a real operating system but it is none of his fscking business anyway.
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2007-06-16
"childishly ugly"
The only child here it is YOU!
I hope you get fired for wasting your company time reading OS News. Have some integrity and do that at home, where it belongs!