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Desktop

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:16 pm
by hogleg
This is really a cool desktop progam.

Its a 3d desktop which you build, hold down left mouse and fly around...too cool.

http://www.3dtop.com/

like the site says, carefull its very addicting

Nice

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:58 am
by tltrude
Seems nice and its free.

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:01 pm
by Rookie One.pl
IMHO bloatware. Shiny, useless gadget. :P

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:30 pm
by hogleg
Rookie One.pl wrote:IMHO bloatware. Shiny, useless gadget. :P
such the critique,...why use skins at all?
Its all "bloatware" we should all go back to monochrome. :P


(blōt?w?r) (n.) jargon Software that has lots of features and requires considerable disk space and RAM.

This progam is VERY small and requires little RAM usage and does not write to your registry....... so your wrong!

What I thought was cool about it was you can use moh textures/models on your desktop.

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:02 am
by Splaetos
well i havent tried it... but...

I cant see this making my use of the computer easier in any way.

spiffier maybe, but I get by with using the taskbar exclusively for 90% of my programs, and I have hmm like 3 icons on my desktop(jsut havent gotten around to deleting them)... so im not sure exactly what id be navigating for in 3d, or why id want to hehe.

it is cool though, im jsut not sure about practical.

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:05 pm
by PKM
Splaetos wrote:well i havent tried it... but...

I have hmm like 3 icons on my desktop....
i recently also did this. i have 8 main desktop icons
  • cpu icon
    shortcut icon for folder holding all frequently used program's shortcut icons
    my documents shortcut icon
    images folder shortcut icon
    shortcut to program files icon
    shortcut icon to music folder
    shortcut icon to mohaa main
    recycle bin icon
oh and i have a habit of putting my current .map and .bak files on my desktop[/list]

right now i'm more worried about this ''whining/run up/wind down'' sound coming from my cpu. not sure if it's the fan for my vid card or the fan for the cpu (hoping it's not my hard drive spinning up). sure it's annoying because it's constant whenever my cpu comes out of hibernation but the part i'm worried about is that if i listen closely enough i swear it's talking to me. hearing a whispery ''slay the jv and the kingdom is yours'' day in and day out can't be good. that and it would seem my bandwidth has fallen to 108.5 kbps with DSL.

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:34 pm
by flewster
does having alot on your desktop slow your computer down?.........when i first installed windowas and MOHAA it was blazing fast pings........now I barly get a 120 ping and when the action is all hot with lots going on it bogs down so much I can't play........thinking of redoing my computer again so i can play but is there a connection with what is on my desktop and speed..........I have ALOT on my desktop..........ALOT

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:01 pm
by Splaetos
spyware and/or other programs, other connections to same router etc will slow down your connection speed... if the game is slow for non ping related issues it can be because resources are tied up... I dont tihnk icons are a huge deal mostly, but every diagnostic tool ive seen laways reccomends not loading a desktop image at all... though i cant see that having a huge impact on my performance heh...

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:05 pm
by PKM
Splaetos wrote:spyware and/or other programs, other connections to same router etc will slow down your connection speed... if the game is slow for non ping related issues it can be because resources are tied up... I dont tihnk icons are a huge deal mostly, but every diagnostic tool ive seen laways reccomends not loading a desktop image at all... though i cant see that having a huge impact on my performance heh...
no spyware problems, i use an anti-spyware, spyware removal, bazooka.exe and other programs to make sure i don't have anything taking a siesta in my hard drive. just checked the wife's cpu bandwidth and it's only slighty higher (205.kbps), her's is the 'master' but then again, this is dsl and i'm in san antonio where if so much as sprinkles a little rain, the city's infrastructure shuts down.

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:21 pm
by lizardkid
i remember seeing something like this that tltrude posted... but it was a bix you controlled by holding scroll wheel down and whizzing the mouse around, it spun the box and gave you various perspectives of the 6 sides, allowing you to click whatever you could see... 'twas ownage.

your desktop is nil compared to other programs, services, virii, and windows working at once on your comp.
IMHO bloatware. Shiny, useless gadget
such hate for the cream and sugar on top!

on a completely related note the link is broken for me.

Re: Nice

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:50 pm
by Trash Can Man
tltrude wrote:Seems nice and its free.
Free is good!! ;)

xp slow down

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:59 pm
by tltrude
Talking about Windows XP slowing down over time, I recently read an article about that problem. It is caused by ever increasing amounts of garbage in the registry. Just cleaning the registry will help a lot. But to speed it back up requires optimization--getting rid of duplicate entries. The best program I have found for doing that is "XP Repair Pro 2006".

Re: xp slow down

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:37 pm
by Trash Can Man
tltrude wrote:Talking about Windows XP slowing down over time, I recently read an article about that problem. It is caused by ever increasing amounts of garbage in the registry. Just cleaning the registry will help a lot. But to speed it back up requires optimization--getting rid of duplicate entries. The best program I have found for doing that is "XP Repair Pro 2006".
Where can I get XP repair pro?

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:06 pm
by hogleg

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:43 pm
by Trash Can Man
Thanks a bunch hogleg.