VistaShellReplacment
I’m getting all hacky again and that usually coincides with a deep dissatisfaction with Windows.
Since I’m trading and gaming about 100 hours a week (ratio kept private to protect the guilty) switching to Linux isn’t really an option.
Plus, no matter what the geeks say, the video/audio codecs on linux suck righteous ass so, unless it’s a pure dev box (not soon) it just ain’t happening.
However, back in the days of 98, you could replace the whole look and feel by replacing most of the explorer interface with something else. The options (lightstep comes to mind first, though there were DOZENS) were amazing. Really wonderful stuff.
But this crap has been so kiosked and locked down since then that I wonder if a full blown shell replacement is even possible any more.
I’m going to go do some more poking around, but in the meantime… anybody know of any Vista Shell Replacements?
(public service announcement: Replacing your shell is (or was) a damn invasive thing to do. Used to be you could bork your operating system pretty bad if you mucked it up.)
UPDATE: Figures…
Google Search
Commercial:
Talisman Desktop
Eye Candy Look
As In Beer:
Emerge Desktop
LiteStep: This was the Granddaddy of them all. Tough to find references as to whether it’ll work on Vista or not.