windows classic

Posted By: UB hans gunsche | Jan 27th @ 4:05 PM
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#Jan 27th @ 4:05 PM
UB hans gunsche
UB hans gunsche
i usually run windows classic settings on all my windows based pc's. i just want to know if i can disable the little icon thing in the upper right hand corner of the start menu. i just like to keep my system as simple as possible and run it with the best performance settings for when i do gaming.
#Jan 27th @ 5:43 PM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
On modern computers running Windows' skinning engine will not have any performance impact. None, at all, seriously.

My Pentium 166 ran perfectly fine with Stardock's Window Blinds on Windows 98 without any peformance hit.

Run some benchmarks before deciding to turn things off or not.

As for your user picture, I don't think you can turn that off unless you go back to the Classic start-menu option (which has an ugly mix of XP and Vista icons).
#Jan 28th @ 6:26 AM
UB hans gunsche
UB hans gunsche
thx for the feedback w33bo. not a personal jab towards you or anything but as a general question then if running with or without the skinning engine on windows why would it still give the option in the advanced system settings to adjust windows for best performance?
#Jan 28th @ 9:25 AM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
RDP performance, for one thing. Running with visual styles disabled means that the RDP display-driver can just send the simple classic-mode line drawing instructions down the pipe rather than the bitmaps that make up a visual style.

....which is one of the reasons why Windows Server 2008 comes in Classic mode, since servers tend to be headless and administered via RDP.

I suppose under certain circumstances on really old machines you might notice a slight performance gain from not using it (especially if IO operations are really slow), or if you're running an embedded OS and want to minimise footprint size.

Since you're running Vista I strongly recommend you use Aero and the DWM rather than the 2D window manager. It lessens the burden on your CPU (since there are less window repaints required) and doesn't affect your GPU when you're playing games.

#Jan 28th @ 3:48 PM
Matthew van Eerde
Matthew van Eerde
AKA Maurits
Right-click Start menu | Properties | Start Menu | Classic Start menu

With this setting on Vista SP1 I get no icon in the upper right of the Start Menu.  I also don't get a "Search" bar; don't know if there's a way to get one without the other.

#Jan 28th @ 6:45 PM
UB hans gunsche
UB hans gunsche
interesting concept. i was always brought up to think that the less work windows had to do the better the performance. i would run aero but i fall under the category of people who don't really own a high performance pc.
#Jan 28th @ 8:00 PM
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If you have a DirectX 9-capable video card (basically, if Windows lets you turn on Aero), you will benefit from using Aero.  Vista doesn't use any hardware acceleration (for 2D graphics) if Aero's not turned on (unlike XP, where GDI was hardware accelerated); with it turned on, it offloads a lot of the graphics work onto your GPU.
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