Has anyone used a shell replacement? |
 May 22 2009, 01:40 AM
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look vista aint all that bad, if you can run it.
The thing that irks me the most is the fact that windows explorer uses 4,00K of memory on xp but a WHOPPING 40,000 on vista. I cant wait for cairo desktop to come out. well i can, but it looks cool. It is pretty much a new os, but it's just a shell replacement for vista. It has a community of trusted testers. The only other decent looking one I have seen is litestep. But it looks like crappy kde. So I wouldn't use it. Is it possible to use the KDE window manager in vista? I downloaded KDE for vista a long time ago but I still have no clue what it does. |
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May 22 2009, 08:51 AM
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QUOTE(jcp @ May 22 2009, 02:40 AM)  look vista aint all that bad, if you can run it. The thing that irks me the most is the fact that windows explorer uses 4,00K of memory on xp but a WHOPPING 40,000 on vista. I cant wait for cairo desktop to come out. well i can, but it looks cool. It is pretty much a new os, but it's just a shell replacement for vista. It has a community of trusted testers. The only other decent looking one I have seen is litestep. But it looks like crappy kde. So I wouldn't use it. Is it possible to use the KDE window manager in vista? I downloaded KDE for vista a long time ago but I still have no clue what it does. Many applications use explorer to function. In a closed OS like Windows, I just don't think it's the greatest idea. |
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May 22 2009, 09:32 AM
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The whole point of a shell replacement is that it is still windows and it can till run all ht esame aps but it replaces explorer.exe with a much lighter version of it.
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May 22 2009, 12:26 PM
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whoa. So i tried setting kde as the shell and when I restarted it was just a blank screen. But to my suprise ctrl alt delete worked. So I close all kde stuff and open the windows components. I then fixed the regestry and now Im doing everything by switching through services in the task manager and opening them there.
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May 22 2009, 01:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,574 Joined: Aug 2007 Member No: 555,438 |
QUOTE(jcp @ May 22 2009, 01:26 PM) whoa. So i tried setting kde as the shell and when I restarted it was just a blank screen. But to my suprise ctrl alt delete worked. So I close all kde stuff and open the windows components. I then fixed the regestry and now Im doing everything by switching through services in the task manager and opening them there. That is what happens when you kill explorer.exe.... *sigh* Yeah, task manager doesn't need explorer.exe to run. Windows is a closed OS. Changing something like explorer.exe can have many unintended consequences. Let Microsoft take care of windows. If you want to play with an OS then install linux on your machine and go nuts. |
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May 22 2009, 01:54 PM
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Isn't that Cairo dock specifically for Linux?... Gnome to be more precise?
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