Bigger icons please

Post by **rep** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:45 am

:lol:

God I wish they'd get rid of the little shortcut arrow. Easy solution: The actual EXE file should have some sort of colored text. Dark green and bold, perhaps?

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:46 am

what be this

Post by **rep** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:47 am

Windows Vista Beta 1

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:44 am

oic...isnt that what the closet mac fanboys wanted?

i agree with you about the shortcut arrow.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:49 am

i think it's pretty

Post by **shadd_** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:55 am

not been keeping up with it. any 64-bit support?

Post by **Psyche911** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:00 am

It does look freakishly OS X-like.

And I'm sure it'll have 64-bit support if XP does... (XP-64).

Post by **rep** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:26 am

Vista will ship for 64-bit processors, but it will not ship for Itanium. (Rofl)

I don't think Vista looks like OSX at all. Don't start on the trash can/recycle bin thing. There are only so many styles of trash cans available that haven't been used in previous operating systems.

128x128. A lot of other icons in vista are 256x256. Most of the time, you won't even see an icon since it'll be displaying the file itself.

Post by **sliver** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:53 am

are those even larger than the icons in XP on the "tile" setting?

Post by **rep** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:06 am

What is a little sad (Even though this is just beta 1) is that icons that have been in Windows since 3.11 are still in there.

IE7 for example still has the crappy 16x16 Earth icon in the bottom right hand corner of the application. That one has been around since NT3.something

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:34 am

I think it looks like complete ass.

Oh, and the shortcut arrow can be removed in WinXP/2000/98 with TweakUI

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:39 am

tweakui is 3rd party though right?

Post by **bork[e]** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:47 am

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

Um, I never thought twice about it, but if you care to know that's where you can find it. May, may not be?

Keep It Real · Post by **Keep It Real** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:02 am

rep wrote:What is a little sad (Even though this is just beta 1) is that icons that have been in Windows since 3.11 are still in there.

IE7 for example still has the crappy 16x16 Earth icon in the bottom right hand corner of the application. That one has been around since NT3.something

I think its bizarre that you even think about this stuff

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:18 am

Eraser wrote:I think it looks like complete ass.

Oh, and the shortcut arrow can be removed in WinXP/2000/98 with TweakUI

Yes I use(d) that neat little proggy :icon25:

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:21 am

Eraser wrote:I think it looks like complete ass.

Oh, and the shortcut arrow can be removed in WinXP/2000/98 with TweakUI

aye, i have that. shortcut arrows are dumb.
no idea why mac adopted this 'feature', when aliases are italic anyways

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:22 am

"rating"
yea thats a feature we really need. being able to "rate" your selfinstalled apps :icon14:

Post by **Mogul** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:34 am

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:31 am

Looks a lot more streamlined in the UI... Hows it like working with older stuff? (Some things wont work on XP for example)

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:55 am

Keep It Real wrote:
rep wrote:What is a little sad (Even though this is just beta 1) is that icons that have been in Windows since 3.11 are still in there.

IE7 for example still has the crappy 16x16 Earth icon in the bottom right hand corner of the application. That one has been around since NT3.something
I think its bizarre that you even think about this stuff

What's bizarre is that he actually calls other people nerds.

Post by **Doombrain** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:02 pm

welcome to last year.

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:26 pm

bork[e] wrote:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Um, I never thought twice about it, but if you care to know that's where you can find it. May, may not be?

The Power Calculator is also worth dowloading. It's kinda like having a TI-83 for XP.

Post by **rep** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:01 pm

Eraser wrote:I think it looks like complete ass.

Oh, and the shortcut arrow can be removed in WinXP/2000/98 with TweakUI

Yeah but you have no idea if 'doom.exe' is actually really a shortcut named that.

They need to give executables a special font.

Post by **simple** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:07 pm

the new explorer icon looks ugly as hell.

Post by **eepberries** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:27 pm

This screenshot looks really confusing. I hate this new aged super graphical crap, it just confuses me :icon27: