Comments on: Enhance Windows XP Look & Feel the Easy Way

By: Jackson Henney

Jackson Henney — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:15:39 +0000

Hey, Im 14 and has tweaked my Laptop to a Vista theme, using VistaMizer 3.4.0.0 Its realy light on resources, and still runs fast, even though im using 256MB RAM and a 40GB HDD with XP SP2. I love it, WinFlip and TrueTransparency are nice although they slow the system down again, But what do you expect for 256RAM.! Try VistaMizer, its great!

By: shah

shah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:03:25 +0000

i have a computer with intell pentium 4 processor 3.0ghz and 1 gb ram. Will the it impact my comps performance significantly?

By: Hatryst

Hatryst — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:45:34 +0000

I think BricoPack is not the ‘best’ transforming tool, so far as I’ve used it…

By: Legace

Legace — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:33:59 +0000

EDIT: The Bricopacks (including Vista Inspirat) will use no or very little resources when RocketDock, UberIcon, Y’z Shadow, and TransBar are turned off compared to the normal XP.

By: Legace

Legace — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:32:53 +0000

The Bricopacks (including Vista Inspirat) will no or very little resources when RocketDock, UberIcon, Y’z Shadow, and TransBar are turned off.

The Bricopacks also are compatible with SP3, but you need to install SP3 BEFORE installing the Bricopacks.

Also, I reccomend selecting “Custom” Install when the Vista Inspirat setup asks you for the installation mode. Then, unselect Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, Windows Movie Maker, (and possibly Outlook). This is because the Bricopacks were not designed for WMP10+, IE7+. Windows Movie Maker will not function properly if it is selected..

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:32:02 +0000

For the Dock, use Object Docks + Stacks Dockets, it will be awesome. I use it, very low resources. It will work just like the mac, like the FAN or Grid pops out of the docket……Just FYI….cheers…

By: Gyffes

Gyffes — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:03:57 +0000

Frankly, I go the opposite direction: no icons on desktop, no taskbar(s), a simply conky-style background screen, multiple desktops, launcher (launchy, Mercury, etc), blackbox as my finder.

Lite as possible on the resources and makes the transition ‘tween my XP boxes and my linux boxes practically seamless.

Of course, on my macs I have to settle for plain background and auto-hidden dock, but I have Quicksilver to make up the difference.

But I find the more my look/feels approach 1, the more OS-agnostic I become.

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:47:14 +0000

@ The Geek

Thanks for publishing my post. I am looking forward to write more useful posts to help my fellow geeks.

@Abhishek and Tonino

I would recommend at least 2 GB of minimum Ram and at least 2.0Ghz Processor before you use these transformation packs, sorry for not mentioning this in the post. =)

By: The Geek

The Geek — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:59:54 +0000

@Tonino

Abhishek is correct, these transformation packs will often slow your computer down quite a bit, especially if you have an older computer.

By: Tonino

Tonino — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:41:23 +0000

Hi,
can you or anybody explain what’s the impact of these changes in the performance?
That’s always the thing keeping me from using this kind of software