Windows 7 Classic Theme


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I use the classic theme in XP for performance. On my 5 year old machine at work I want my JAVA ide (resource hog) to run as best it can. I could care less if it looks "pretty". I would do the same in Win7. Most people are right though, it's functional.

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This. If you choose to use the classic theme, then that's your own fault. Classic: performance > looks. Aero: performance < looks. Get used to it.

I've never noticed any difference in performance or problems with using Aero over the Classic theme. Therefore for me, it is as follows -

Classic - Performance > Looks

Aero - Performance == Looks

Therefore, Aero wins, hands down, in my opinion :) Classic looks ugly, Aero looks very nice, especially the glass :)

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By the way, on most recent PC's the full Aero (not Basic) should not affect performance. Everything is getting more GPU acceleration, that can't be bad...

And even if it affects performance the loss of performance will be SO small you'd need to measure milliseconds to get the difference...

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I can only imagine you work in a pretty uninspiring corporate environment then - afraid a splash of colour will send employees into a wild frenzy? That said I don't feel that the Aero interface is unprofessional at all.

From what I've read they still use XP, and who in their right mind would want to use the Fisher-Price interface in a corporate environment?

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I've posted this before, but really, the only issue here is a little spacing, border adjustment, and proper use of colouring. Classic never looked bad from 95 to XP, just a little plain (something I can appreciate). They just never really payed any attention to it in Vista beyond "it functions", and it shows.

For example, little polish for Explorer...

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It's really about time for people to get with the times. If you like the classic theme, you should stay with Win9x. Modern OSes are designed to be personalised and theme-abled.

Perhaps the Aero Basic is the "Classic" theme of Win Vista/7.

Actually, I'm very much with the times, and I prefer using Windows Classic on netbooks and virtual machines. It may not be theme-able, but I think it looks fine.

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I just wish they could roll out a compact theme. Not something with 5px round borders.

Keeping things clean and compact is much more important than being "fancy" and "themed".

Functionallity > Appearance.

Round borders => more failure on corner click.(and do you even see corporate documents with round corners? Because I dont.)

In any case... It's not about windows classic for me, it's about having a theme that isnt made for the eyecandy.

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Long live classic theme! It is my choice of theme to use on XP, although I use other VS's. In Vista and 7, I prefer the Aero themes

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The reason this butt-ugly "Theme" exists is more ore less a fallback solution. In case someone screws up their uxtheme.dll or there are problems related to it, it is a fallback solution. Some don't like it but my brother-in-law took me to his workplace and they were using Vista basic, not Classic. This believe it or not can actually be a bottleneck since Aero is more towards the graphics card's power rather than the CPU so it frees resources. Windows 7's DWM doesn't even use more than 25MB RAM so I doubt anyone should have problems like that. If your computer chokes, then why bother using Vista. Any smart corporate I.T. department shouldn't care for the latest and greatest, only for something that works.

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