What's the point?

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Question: Whats the point with Object Desktop?

When I used it, around 10% of system resources and processor usage were used by less than half of the OB apps.

And you eventually get fed up of it, and heres the ironic bit...

The people who create the objects and skins often use programs that use alot of system resources and power and their tasks are slowed down by these often unnessasery processes...

I mean, who honestly really needs HD space and memory usage info live on their desktop? Whats the point? It uses CPU power just to get the information, when you can just right click on the taskbar and select "Task Manager" to get all the informaton you need.

The only person who might need this all the time is a server administrator, but they often have dedicated programs to do this, and most enterprise servers these days dont even run Windows.

This is my case against ObjectDesktop...

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Maybe because of the fun of it ? And actually I use some OD components for productivity to just mention Desktop X for certain tasks or ObjectDock to avoid a cluttered desktop... And WindowBlinds let's me fit the windows I want them to look like. If I am forced to work at the PC every day I want at least have a nice looking OS and some tools to make my everyday tasks faster and easier instead of clicking through a million startmenus and submenus. Nobody that starts up his PC onve a week needs any skinning, that one is right. But I couldn't stand a machine without OD on it...

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What's really ironic is that I'm using Windowblinds with animated borders, Winfx with *everything* turned on, sysmetrix, cursorxp, DesktopX, NS/WS, ObjectBar, Rainlendar, AltDesk, ColorPad, Icon Packager, Control Center, BandVWM (I have 18 available desktops), WebBlinds, Winamp with streaming radio, TreeView, SmartException, ZoneAlarm, the Wincustomize SkinBrowser. My CPU usage is currently between 0 and 2.5, I'm using 124m RAM (out of 512), highest GDI is 479...well, I could go on. I'm not having any problems, resource-wise. Win2K SP3

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's all about 'individuality' and 'creative expression'.

Alternate shells, skins, shell extensions, etc are much like the content of an Art Gallery.
There will be many, in the face of world famine and blood-shed who will look at the Mona Lisa and mutter 'what's the point?'.

If you need to ask the question, you will never comprehend the answer...
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Perhaps you should go back to Win 3.1 .... shouldn't use too many of your resources.
Be as boring as Tofu of course.

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wasn't aware that Object Desktop was about displaying system resources on your screen.

I use Object Desktop to improve my productivity and system performance.

1) The Blackcomb skin on my system is considerably faster than the Windows XP visual style while nicer looking than classic.

2) ObjectBar lets me get to my right click menu any time I want and I have extra options on there such as my most frequently used programs.

3) DesktopX objects track sales and bandwidth use on WinCustomize and act as simple icons on my desktop.

4) IconPackager doesn't use any resources but I used it to have nicer looking Orion icons.

5) WindowFX shadows look cool and don't use much in resources. Also, I have my system set up to maximize to 1024x768 on my 1600x1200 monitor.

6) ControlCenter gives me virtual desktops which I have embedded into my Startbar.

7) DriveScan lets me keep my system relatively free of clutter on the hard drive.

8) WinStyles lets me quickly turn off programs that I don't want loaded on start up (The settings button on the left).

Object Desktop is just a suite of components that add more features to Windows. The user can decide what he or she wants to do with those features.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well actually resources information comes in handy for many different sorts of computer users. Power Users who are always tweaking and playing with the setup to see what works and does not until they hit a point of happiness with the given situation, Designers who need to keep track of such information so that * users who could have bought a MAC * do not have to worry about it. Programmers who also fall into the designer group. Then there are the tech's and network admins whom also needs such information at any given point of time. So you question of why, is really simple to answer, the question is where do you fit into the answer?

This is the sweet thing about OD, * you * make the choice on what you wish to make use of, if Windowblinds works, cool, if more is wanted, take it to the limit, and Stardock will push the bar above and beyond. Aston is ok and it is very fast, but also just as limited as it is fast after all it is only a shell and at that it is limited to the opening screen and no applications, Hoverdesk is sweet also, and it has bells and such as OD and also a very good option, Winstep also falls into this group of good solid fully rounded GUI's...

Anyway, your choice of use is your choice of use, but downingthe app is rather silly, I mean if you wanted to look at the same ol same ol, why mess with changing the shell to begin with...

Then again, maybe your question is ment more along the lines of * What can I do with X ? * which is easy to answer, anything you can imagine and then some !!

Luck and hope you find more positive about it, if not sorry if so fantastic!

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