Cool Desktop Backgrounds

[98ludeChris]

http://www.desktopography.net

[Jonathan]

Very cool, but I prefer mine:

http://kissmyshinymetal.info/desktop.jpg

[98ludeChris]

Haha, nice, but a little too bright for my liking. By the way, I thought you hated vista?

[Jonathan]

I'm not running vista, smart guy.

[Truckload]

What OS is it then, smart guy?

[Jonathan]

XP...

[Truckload]

I didn't realize there was that much flexibility with the start bar on XP. I'm on XP too..... How did you get it to look that way?

[Jonathan]

WindowBlinds. It skins all windows, not just the start bar.

[Truckload]

Any issues with speed? Does it suck any power?

[Jonathan]

Varies per theme, per machine. I have no problems, but I'm also running a quad core cpu...

[Truckload]

So dual quads shouldn't be a problem? :P Cool ****, I might have to check some of them out...

[Jonathan]

I get a lot of themes by J.J. Ying, he does some really clean, badass stuff (like the one above).

[98ludeChris]

ahh i thought you might be doing that, very nice. by the way, jonathan, what's your setup?

[RED (Mike)]

i'll go back and check it out when theres a way to turm the music off, or at least a warning on the site that says it'll play audio that cant be turned off.

[98ludeChris]

^^ there's a stop button on the bottom left side.

[Jonathan]

ahh i thought you might be doing that, very nice. by the way, jonathan, what's your setup?

Core2 Quad Extreme, 3.11ghz. 2gb ddr3. XP is limited to 2gb of ram... :(

i'll go back and check it out when theres a way to turm the music off, or at least a warning on the site that says it'll play audio that cant be turned off.

Bottom left hand corner is the music control.

[98ludeChris]

^i'm waiting for amd to come out with a decent quad core. what about gpu?

[Jonathan]

xfx 8600 gts xxx

[TJ]

Core2 Quad Extreme, 3.11ghz. 2gb ddr3. XP is limited to 2gb of ram... :(



Bottom left hand corner is the music control.


I thought xp can read up to 3gb of ram?

[98ludeChris]

Most 32bit operating systems can only support up to about 3gb, depending on the software and hardware of the system, it could vary from like 2.75gb to 3.5gb. But I'm sure I will be corrected very soon...

[Jonathan]

Well...yes and no. By default it's 2gb, but you can edit the boot ini to make it support 3gb. However, I wouldn't buy 2x512s to get that extra 1gb, I'd be buying another 2x1gb or more if I switched to an os that could support *gb of ram. So it's not cost effective for me to do it. I'll just buy it later when I'm forced to switch OSs, or I find one that is on par with how I have xp setup.

[Jonathan]

Slight modification...

http://kissmyshinymetal.info/desktop_blu.jpg