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WindowBlinds 3.3: Twice as vast as msstyles

WindowBlinds 3.3: Twice as vast as msstyles

Anyone out there willing to do some benchmarking of WindowBlinds 3.3 vs. Windows XP's msstyles?

On the net, you'll still see people say "WindowBlinds is slow, I use msstyles instead..."

Well, our benchmarking is showing WindowBlinds 3.3 as literally twice as fast as visual styles. But what would be nice is for someone to do some independent benchmarking.

If we can consistently show WindowBlinds to be faster than msstyles, that will mean that users are actually better off using WindowBlinds to have the Windows XP look than using Windows alone from a performance/resource point of view which would be a major win.

The only non-Stardock benchmarking program I'm aware of is skinbench. Anyone have any other programs they think would be useful for benchmarking GUI performance?
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Reply #26 Top
I dunno, I look at it as akin to when you read in a newspaper "Pentium 4 machines: $899!" That doesn't mean that every Pentium 4 machine in the world that they sell is $899.

Similarly, a typical WB skin that has a similar msstyle version is going to be twice as fast on a typical system. I'll have to bench more at 32bit color to see if that result remains the same at 32bit color.
Reply #27 Top
the style xp trolls used to spread fud about wb being a slow buggy thing. hell the style xp page still implies that 'other' with 'other' being wb no doubt slows down your system with system hooks. what a load of crap. i don't have xp so i don't care but anyone that anal about performance should be using no skinning at all.