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Jambo

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 15:20

Yes Russ :( :lol:


Russ

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 15:17

becuase it will never be osx?


Jambo

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 15:07

ahh FFs why is that gay litle num lock symbol there :mad: :lol:


Jambo

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 15:07

Just for you Ade :o


Dom

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 15:06

quote:
Originally posted by pow
It's just what it could be running behind it, you think you're installing a nice fluffy dock bar but behind it could be gathering information about how you use your PC and sending it out to the companies servers.


Use Windows 7 Firewall Control, then you can block applications from accessing the outside :thumbs:


Jambo

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 11:18

Lot of ifs there Pow. I have yet to decide to keep it. Nothing wrong with standard windows os tbh! Lol


adiohead

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 09:30

That's sooooo apple :cool:


pow

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 09:09

It's just what it could be running behind it, you think you're installing a nice fluffy dock bar but behind it could be gathering information about how you use your PC and sending it out to the companies servers.


Russ

posted on 9th Mar 11 at 07:44

Would be good if you had a folder to keep all your applications in and had no use for a start button.

You can install OSX on a lot of pc's though, could even dual boot it, so you can have windows 7 when you need it and osx when you want to be able to do nothing but it look pretty


Jambo

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 23:11

I'm running windows 7 dude! It seems ok so far, the little performance indicators seem to be working harder


Dom

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 22:11

quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
So it's gunna make it run slow right??


Depends, but i found some docks better (less of a resource hog) than others and winstep wasn't great from what i remember. Vista memory management is pretty shite in comparison to Win 7, so you might have issues.


Jambo

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 21:21

So it's gunna make it run slow right??


Dom

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 21:08

quote:
Originally posted by pow
One breath you wanna get rid of IE 64bit (which is a packaged part of windows) and next your installing bloatware like this :lol: :facepalm: :P


Rocketdock isn't too bad, about 10-20mb of ram usage. But Pow has a point :lol::lol:

[Edited on 08-03-2011 by Dom]


Jambo

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 19:37

Im guessing your mention of bloat were that means it makes things run slow? If so its bye bye Nexus :wave:


pow

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 19:25

One breath you wanna get rid of IE 64bit (which is a packaged part of windows) and next your installing bloatware like this :lol: :facepalm: :P


Jambo

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 18:38

Cool thanks Dom.

Also what did you mean by bloaty??


Dom

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 18:28

Don't know of a way to complete remove it, although you can auto-hide the taskbar but this will hide the 'start' button and taskbar/status bar etc.
On some docks i've seen (can't remember what as it was about 3/4 years ago) Start button/menu replacements, so you have an icon, click and the Start Menu appears from the dock. You could also remove/hide the taskbar back in XP as well but as said, i'm not sure if you can do that under Win 7.

Edit - Just did a quick google as saw, Taskbar Eliminator for Win 7. No idea if it works or not. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-hide-or-remove-windows-7-taskbar

[Edited on 08-03-2011 by Dom]


Jambo

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 17:52

The windows logo icon at the start is a start menu. Can I just hide the task bar then?

I tried the side and wasn't sure on that either tbh :lol:


Dom

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 17:45

Try out Rocketdock, it's a lot less bloaty than Winstep - looks good though :)

As for the taskbar, what about putting it to one of the sides? You might be able to get a 'start' button plugin for your dock, in which case you can hide the task bar or i believe there are ways to remove it completely (can't say i've tried under 7, i know you could on XP though).


Jambo

posted on 8th Mar 11 at 17:39

Winstep nexus dock for Win7:




I like it but the start bar at the top is annoying and looks poo at the bottom. Unsure if I'm gunna keep it