December 2007 Desktops


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A friend bought me an early Xmas present - Winter Wonderland by Stardock. A fantastic suite. The Windowblind has some cool animations in the Start menu.......the lights on top twinkle, there is snow falling in the background and when you click the Start button the menu pops and three balls of snow fall down to make the snowman!!!!! Also love the progress bar animation in IE. You can't see it but its red and white striped candy. The gadgets you see - clock and weather - come with the suite. The cool dock icons also come with the suite as does the walllpaper. The Xmas tree with twinkling lights is a separate gadget ChristmasTreeDark made my Amethystm00n and the fantastic falling snow down the wallpaper is another gadget made by Richard Mohler - both guys are over at Wincustomize. And not forgettting the little animated Santa cursor made by Lgp85 again over at WC.

A Happy Christmas to everyone at Neowin.

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SlanXP 2.0

Wallpaper: Look back a page or maybe the same page :)

Using Deskspace

Foobar

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Hey mate, great SS! :D

Btw, about the wall your using, I cannot find it at any of the previous pages. Would you please share?

Thanks!

Installed Ubuntu yesterday, so I have still a lot to learn :p

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Dual booting with Vista

Same. :) I gave Ubuntu another shot last Thursday when I had to learn how to use UNIX terminal commands for my programming course. I decided to keep it on for now and see how everything works out.

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Ubuntu always breaks apart on my main desktop, but seems to work on my laptop and my old VAIO.

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