Pimping-out your desktop

alexisgeek · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:49 am Post subject: Pimping-out your desktop

Not exactly "computer help" (I think the forum should be renamed to "Computers" or something).

I recently customized my desktop with a bunch of stuff.

- StyleXP with the PristineOS visual style applied to it, with start bar at top at 20% transparency.
- ObjectDock on the bottom with customized icons.
- Thoosje's Vista Sidebar with the clock, weather display, computer resource monitor, and C:drive space monitor gadgets.

I'm running WindowsXP SP2.

Has anybody else done this sort of thing to their desktop/computer?

china.doll · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

wow! that's awesome! i gotta try doing that. Very Happy

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st3ph · miss you D 05/05/92-06/16/08 (L)

I can't see the pic but it sounds really cool Very Happy

I only have windows 2000 on my comp cause it sucks...but my dad's had xp so i could try it on there Very Happy

I usually just put a pic of me and my friends for me background Very Happy

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alexisgeek · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:55 am Post subject:

^whoops. Yeah. I changed the place of where the pic was located... you should see it now Happy

Though... it's been a few months since I had my desktop like that.
Now I have a cleaner desktop, without such a "busy"-looking wallpaper, I took out the sidebar because I didn't get as much use out of it as I thought I would. But I do still have the pristineOS themestyle as well as ObjectDock at the bottom (got it on autohide). I also got a new monitor.

This is what my desktop looks like now:
My resolution is set at 1680x1050... but I've had to resize this picture down to 800x500 just to get it to fit ok on this forum.

st3ph · miss you D 05/05/92-06/16/08 (L)

^woooowwwwwwww. Shocked

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wordtoyourmother · Fashionista Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 86 Smiles: +6 4613

ive got vista so all that comes with the OS. The sidebar is pretty useless though. I turned off transparency because it sacrificed legibility and wasted RAM.

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