Yes, the first post was a quote from the Wincustomize newsletter. I should have made that clear, but I thought that everyone kept abreast of the newsletter. Sorry about the confusion.
Exactly my point Craeonics. You can't just argue that people who prefer to customize their computer find Windows XP the best to do it on, they just happen to own Windows XP when they come here. I'm not trying to nitpick, but to point out that such internet polls should not be used for advertising or promotion when they are based on such bad science (as I know that microsoft and wincustomize have a somewhat cozy relationship, which has resulted in Microsoft not really providing their own skins,
Read it carefully... The only thing you can conclude from this poll is the following: The majority of users who ANSWERED the poll use Windows XP. You can't argue (based only on the results of this poll) that Windows XP is the preferred OS for skinning, or that people who customize their PC's find Windows XP to be the best OS to do it on. For all we know, it could be a coincidence because Windows XP happens to be the latest in the migration path of Microsoft's OS, and is bein
Until the release of Windows XP, skinning and Windows customization in general was kind of a niche thing. But with Windows XP, Microsoft made the OS much friendlier to skinning. Not only does it come with a visual style engine based on the WindowBlinds design that allows WindowBlinds visual styles to run much smoother, but the robustness of the OS in general has allowed users to experiment with customization safely. We took a poll on WinCustomize as to what OS people are using and the result
Does this also account for DPI settings? I run a laptop with a 15" screen at ????x1400 so it means that I need to change WindowsXP DPI settings to be able to read screen, and therefore most windowblids scrollbars and menubars are way too tiny to see.
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