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Originally Posted by taustin
The first thing I do when setting up a Win7 computer at work is to set the desktop theme to Windows Classic, which pretty well emulates XP. It turns off a lot of the distracting animated crap that eats up CPU resources and memory. Set it once, and it's set.
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Um, I hate to break this to you- I've had to do it for a lot of folks - but Windows Classic theme is actually *SLOWER* than the stock Aero themes, uses more CPU/RAM and performs worse on a vaguely modern PC. Google it, seriously.
The Aero-accelerated themes use graphics acceleration...the classic theme is intended for PCs with very, very weak graphics processors (think Pentium 4 era).
Look it up. Classic runs on CPU + RAM only...and not using the video acceleration capabilities. Aero is actually faster. Microsoft actually knows what they are doing.