forrestaldrich

Reply to XP or Vista? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

My system already blue-screened today. I figure the look-and-feel can be achieved with Object Desktop on XP Pro, I don't much care for the rest. (FYI, I'm a sysadmin and I work in the UNIX world). Simple programs like SecureCRT scroll very slowly now. My system is fairly resonable: 3.0ghz Intel (HT) 2gb RAM 200+gb disk space Xstasy (ATI/Visiontek) 256mb AGP video That should be more than enough. But for what I'm doing, it's not really g

XP or Vista? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I've been familiar with Object Desktop for a while, and I read on their page that there is some work going on with Microsoft. I just loaded Windows Vista Ultimate on my system. It's alright, but the end-user experience isn't all that different from what Object Desktop may have provided me. Perhaps there's more under-the-hood. It's definitely slower - which may be my video card (256mb Xstasy AGP) and my monitor is a SGI 1600SW flatpanel. So I won't get into a rant about that