I've got a newbie question, if you will, so please bear with me. I am using WindowBlinds 4.3 By disabling Microsoft's Theme Service will I notice any speed increase on my computer?

No.

Thank you, drive through.

It depends on your system.

If you have a lower end system...say sub 1.5 Ghz with around 256 ram and 32 mb gfx card...then yes you will see a noticeable difference.

But if you have a high end machine...say >2 Ghz and over 512 MB and 64 MB gfx card....then it won't be so noticeable.

But if you don't use it, turn it off.

exactly

turn it off!

Themes service should be turned off when you use windowblinds. I had some problems before when I had the 2 activated at the same time.

The only problem I have had when turning the Themes service off was that everytime I went into Display properties to make changes for the 3d settings etc in the ATI control panel, any WB theme I had applied would revert back to windows classic, I also could not apply any WB themes when the service was disabled unless I used WindowBlinds its

It was a right pain in the a**e so I just turned it back on again, I did contact Stardock, but all I kept getting back were automated mails saying to resend the problem if the basic guidelines given in the mail was no help, it was just an endless circle

And I thought I am the only one having that problems. It does not happen all the time. It happens radomly for me.

There seemed to be a few people in the stardock irc channel who had the same problem too frease, but the only solution they said was contact support via email, which I gave up on after about 5 resends/forwards of the same mail

Don't talk about email.. I can't even access the stardock newgroups I hope they do something about their products cos' so many people paid for it. At least, they should improve their support service.

I am on the newsgroups right now....no problem at all.

Did you configure the news reader right. It is news.stardock.com

Thanks, I'll try again

Thanks AthleticTrainer1981, I forgot about the newsgroups, mainly as I use Agent instead of OE (eek, horrible software) and could never get it to connect to the stardock servers, it never occured to me to remove the news:\\ part, which is now working, after making a stardock folder of course

Thanks again, I have now posted my message on there ...

it usually slows down mah system , so i use msstyles instead .

excellent contribution to a thread about windowblinds and the theme service...

sheesh... no wonder i drink

If you use WB... disable the theme service, there's no need for it as WB takes over from where the uxtheme.dll takes off

I have an "old" machine... just a slummy P4 3.06ghz with HT, with a gig of ram, a 265mb nvidia FX card, and believe me... it does make a difference if you disable the service... not enough to be "instantly" noticeable"... but you will notice it when it counts...

Thanks Deano & the rest for the information, I will leave it disabled.

Isn't it 'drive thru' ?