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Chris--
I have both installed on an SP2 RTM box, and I have not noticed the hint of
any instability or problems with their concominatant use. I used both
through Windows XP, then SP1, and now SP2 RTM. I haven't seen problems
using both if either were loaded first.
I tried them in Win 9X, and they worked fine, but some idiot sneaked in that
abominably unstable Windows ME to help OEM PC makers sell (as is the reflex
relationship), and so many bugs were in that thing it was hard to know what
was causin' what. I thought ME was kind of a "Redmond has left the building
on a very long sabattical, and we are in no way responsible for this ME
OS--we have temps doing it who have never made software before"
There is talk that there will be an interim build before Longhorn--an "XP
Reloaded" that has been revived lately. I don't know--but I'll be trying
both of these with that, if they do.
I have not tried to mix small components of each "in real time," but I can
choose to use features of one, and features of the other if I want. Right
now, I have TGTSoft's Style and Windowblinds with Object Desktop components
and Stardock Central both installed, but to save CPU I'll keep one from
loading at start because I have a rule--if I'm not using the app, and it's
not essential, then I won't let the process run. I'm using Window Blinds,
and I also find, and this matters that in using each, the skin can dictate
and interact with the font size and style depending on the skin.
Sometimes, the skin will deliver me a font size or style I absolutely don't
want, and so I'll go to the display properties dialogue box and experiement
until I get the font I want. I like larger fonts and buttons then default
on my menus, taskbar, notfication area, name bars and even the font that
lists newsgroups, posters and dates on this nntp newsreader and that
requires a little tweaking around. During the tweaking you'll get some
temporary video display freezes, but that has nothing to do with
concommitant use of the two and temporary is measured in seconds or a couple
minutes max--and thats not at random, that's while I make a deliberate skin
or other style change.
I wouldn't hesitate to have them both on. I enjoy the huge variety and
going to one theme site or another via a search engine and changing the
"fung shui" of looks I can get.
Plus I'm fairly certain that Bill Gates, Stevie Balmer, and Jimmie Alchin
stood up in unison at several of the latest MSFT conferences and said
"Longhorn Shmonghorn, Blackcomb Schmackomb, the hell with Security or any of
this SP2 security and Data Execution Prevention junk --this company has and
will always be about the fung shui of the looks and gui colors our users can
enjoy--we want fun views in our Windows. We ain't no Linux and it shows." I
heard this statement will be a staple in future add campaigns.
If you put them both on, and you see any problems, I don't think *anything
that happens is not going to be something minor* that you can easily
dispense of, if you don't want it. You can never say never with software,
but from my experience with them, I don't see you having a major instability
or crash or effect from which you can't recover, and I'm not having any
after running them both for nearly a year.
One of the problems I had was that through different builds of SP2, it would
take Style XP a little while to be compatible with the build. In other
words, an SP2 build would release, I would use it, and Style simply
wouldn't work at all, until they updated it. TGTSoft was *very good about
doing this quickly*, and letting you know on their site, and in their
forums.
TGTSoft issued August 11: Style XP 2.13 released (Support for SP2 Final).
See http://www.tgtsoft.com/
Have a good time with these looks,
Chad Harris
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"Chris Eilersen" <eilerc51@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:10huknoqt33v963@corp.supernews.com...
Can you use Windowblinds if you have already loaded Style XP or is there a
conflict between the two?
Thanks
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