pros and cons in using uxtheme
Monday, June 12, 2006 by Rychian | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
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Rychian
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Reply #22 Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:22 PM
| indeed it does piss me off but its a matter of taking the good with the bad...if i left every site cause of annoyances in the community, i would just rather unplug my internet cable |
That is funny coming from the one being the annoyance in this thread
Reply #23 Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:24 PM
| u just dont have to promote it so much...its annoying... |
Stardock makes WindowBlinds, Stardock owns and runs this site, what else would you expect.
Reply #24 Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:36 PM
OK....you want 'experience' with uxtheme.dll patching?
Here's mine.
TGTSoft went out of their way to disparage the one true alternative to an MS hack [on Deviantart, quite some years ago] by spoofing Users' comments with fake Users to give a false impression of the pros and cons of each.
Their subversive modus operandi aided in the newbie/naive acceptance of it [the hack] as a viable alternative.
The first casualty of the 'debate' was truth. [as is the case in war].
Since then there has been variations of the functionality/adoption of this hack...as a response to the MS updates, namely SP1 and 2 which both proved problematic for what actually gets NO support from MS [as you would expect since it is NOT sanctioned as an approved 'mod'].
The TGTSoft-based sites/forums dealing with the on-going issues such hacking causes appear to be conspicuous in their absence.
Microsoft's indifference to the patching of their proprietary content is NOT tacit condoning/approval of its use, but simply indifference towards something that has [apparently] not been a help-desk-complaint issue sufficienly big enough to become "enough is enough....cease and desist".
For anyone who actively skins for the MS GUI it's a no-brainer that Windowblinds provides far more scope for that skinning it becomes a "why bother with an inferior product/method?" - question.
To sum up...
A patched uxtheme.dll [whatever its implimentation] is both inferior and unsupported by anyone 'qualified' to do so.
The only time this opinion will be deemed inappropriate to the thread poster's question is when other's noses are put out of joint by it due to it being at odds with what they would 'like' to hear.
To clarify, I have been known to 'hack' things and seem to have a love of breaking my OS [just ask yrag]....but cannot even BOTHER to do so [with this] when there is a better alternative...
Am I a 'fanboy'? It sure sounds like it...but oddly enough I am sufficiently sentient to form my own conclusions...and need NOT be part of a gestalt...
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Reply #21 Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:16 PM
i know very well that windowblinds is the superior product...its pretty obvious
u just dont have to promote it so much...its annoying...