In case anybody is wondering, this screenshot reflects my use of WindowBlinds 3.5, a shareware GUI skinning utility for Windows by Stardock. The skin is called Saphardana, one of about five dozen I rotate on a daily basis. I quite like this one, but it's more subtle than flashy. I have others that are very dramatic... :-)

Since I have power to burn for this sort of esthetic application, it was worth the $20. Among other things, it takes care of that jarring background for the icon names by making it transparent against the desktop graphic.



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Computer 1: Win2K SP3; AMD XP2200+ CPU @ 1800 MHz stock; ASUS A7V8X mobo, onboard 10/100 LAN, sound (disabled; broken solder joint); 512 MB PC2100 RAM; ATI Radeon 7500 64 MB AGP video; Creative SBLive MP3+ audio; 20 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM IDE; 80 GB Seagate 7200 RPM IDE; Sony CR160-E CD-RW 12/8/32

Computer 2: Win98SE; AMD Duron 800 CPU (can't OC this stupid turd); ASUS A7A266 mobo; 256 MB PC-133 RAM; Gainward TNT2 Pro 32 MB AGP video; EZMedia (cheap) SB-compatible audio; 6.4 GB Fujitsu 7200 RPM IDE; 2.5 GB Seagate Cheetah? ~5400 RPM IDE in death throes; Compaq DVD-ROM