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post #101 of 489
4/13/05 at 4:17am
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Originally Posted by NightHawk7
I use Avedesk 1.2 to get the icons on my desktop. You can custom the icons to display whatever information you want. It is highly customizable and FREE. I also have DesktopX but I use avedesk because it uses less resources for what I'm using it for. Avedesk uses 900k of memory!

You can get it here:
http://www.osx-e.com/modules.php?mod...on=show&id=248

The reason I have my taskbar at the top of the screen is because I hated having the dock at the top of the screen (w/ the taskbar at the bottom). It took awhile but I got used to using the taskbar at the top.
Where can I get instructions on how to use Avedesk? I downloaded it, but I'm lost from that point on
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post #102 of 489
4/13/05 at 4:35am

My zv5000z screen shot!

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post #103 of 489
4/13/05 at 6:38am
On the XPS (resized from 1920x1200):


Took the pic on Monday morning...
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post #104 of 489
4/13/05 at 7:08am



damn sexy!
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post #105 of 489
4/14/05 at 2:26pm
Not as sexy as mine! oohh.. baby!!


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post #106 of 489
4/15/05 at 6:13am
Thread Starter 
nicee

also pls write ur visual style names...
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post #107 of 489
4/15/05 at 8:57am
Info on my desktop (software - theme)

Dock: y'z dock
Window shadows: y'z shadow
Visual style: stylexp - Kamino v2
Icons: stylexp - xp-MadB1 (by MadBwana - a very talented artist on deviantART)
Toolbar: y'z toolbar - Simple things (by agent orange)
Doodads: serious samurize - weather2004 (customized)

Wallpaper made by me trying to get that 50s style in it (the picture is of finlands former president 'urho kekkonen')

Hope this is helpful to someone. All of the above take about 10mb of ram to run and a tiny bit of cpu-power - it's fine by me since I rarely run very heavy applications

edit: whoops! I just noticed that stylexp takes an extra 20 to run, so it's 30mb of ram in total. Have to buy some more ram soon.. 512mb isn't enough for my pimp setup
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post #108 of 489
4/15/05 at 12:06pm
how much ram does windows regular setup use?

mine, currently is very similar to the default wallpaper and icons and stuff like that. can i save resources if i use those programs listed instead of what windows uses? if so, why doesnt everyone do it? this is the first time ive ever seen those docking programs and calander programs
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post #109 of 489
4/15/05 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by pr50wner

damn sexy!
Hey pr50wner ..that white wallpaper in the middle (with 2 females) is awsome ..can u pass on the link??
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post #110 of 489
4/15/05 at 4:19pm
I'm not keen on any of those dock programs. I've tried 3 different ones in the past and they are murder on the CPU, ObjectDock being the most offensive with 99% CPU...what the hell? This is especially painful when I want to use long battery life mode on my power saver and the processor drops to around 600mhz, ObjectDock is like a friggin flip book. Plus I just never found them functional, I find it easier just to double click on a windows icon which is also much faster. I always end up going back to my standard Windows themes too, I actually LIKE the Royale theme a lot. Just about all the themes I've seen on the various sites have been major eye sores with contrasting colors that wreck my eyes when I use file manager etc. Right now since I got a gig of RAM I've been playing around with Konfabulator for the weather and most importantly having a monthly calendar on the desktop. Pretty cool program. Right now I am liking that "Gas Price" widget.
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post #111 of 489
4/15/05 at 4:28pm
Royal Inspirat version of my desktop


Dock: Objectdock Plus
Visual style: Windowblinds Royal Inspirat (Stefanka)
Icons: dock and avedesk - Elements V2 (modded by me)
Rainmeter: JL skin
Lclock
Avedesk 1.2

All this eyecandy only costs me ~25mb of ram and hardly any CPU usage. I haven't had any problems with objectdock hogging system resources, but then again, I have plenty of ram.
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post #112 of 489
4/15/05 at 4:35pm
Dude, thats probably one of the nicest custom desktops I've seen...really clean. I love the "Start" button, nice and slick.

I actually haven't tried ObjectDock since I've upgraded my RAM and HD recently to see if those changes would affect the performance or not but I think I will stick with regular icons for now.
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post #113 of 489
4/16/05 at 12:08pm
using coolmon to display my system stats, its just a small box of information. how do i make it look like the first post of the thread? i want it running the full height of my screen w/ larger text
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post #114 of 489
4/24/05 at 4:54pm
Hey just out of curiosity, where do you get those object docks?
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post #115 of 489
4/24/05 at 5:09pm
For Free docks, there's YzDock (no longer supported, but still available), AquaDock, RKLauncher, and MobyDock. Someone correct me if I left out any good free docks. I've tried them all, but in the end they are not as good as ObjectDock from Stardock. Yes, they do have a free version of ObjectDock, but the 19.95 version has "flyout menus" which that alone is worth it for me because they are immensely useful. Here is an example of flyout menus:
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post #116 of 489
4/24/05 at 6:03pm
Hey nighthawk, i really like that set up you have for your desktop (the icons and object dock. I was wondering if you could help me set up something like that on my desktop. thanks a lot! (i have object dock plus )
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post #117 of 489
4/24/05 at 8:11pm
what do you need help with Hibbs? The icons are Elements V2 by Pantoni but were modded by me so they aren't releasable. Flyout menus are created by right-clicking the right most edge of the dock and clicking Add Flyout Menu (for some reason flyout menus are not an option when you right click on other parts of the dock).
EDIT: This was fixed w/ version 1.11 of Objectdock

The background I used is just another OSX imitation. My internet explorer (actually firefox) and recycle bin icons came from Alienware Skin Suite. I just extracted them using Iconpackager and used them as dock icons.
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post #118 of 489
4/25/05 at 1:59am
i LOVE 2Berks coolmon setup on the right side.

ive d/ed coolmon and i cannot customize it to anything that looks decently good

2berk, how did you do it.
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post #119 of 489
4/25/05 at 2:21am
This may be a dumb question but what is object dock? Do you download it? Buy it at stores?
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post #120 of 489
4/25/05 at 2:44am
http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/

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Originally Posted by aspire
This may be a dumb question but what is object dock? Do you download it? Buy it at stores?
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