Okay, semi-yay, me. I don’t like XP and get cranky when I have to use it, but I decided to try to make it look a little better, so maybe I won’t get so irritated. I’d always used the Windows Classic theme with all the bells and whistles turned off to conserve resources, but it’s so goddamned…ugly. I don’t like any of the Luna themes, I don’t want to install anything that’s going to suck resources (XP itself does a fine job of that), and I don’t care enough about the specific theme to fuck around with uxtheme.dll, so I just got the Royale Noir theme and used that. The blue-black was okay without wallpaper, but I hunted down one that someone had made for Vista that had colours I liked, then removed the Vista logo. I customised the display options so that it does smooth screen fonts (otherwise they’re so jagged that they make baby Jesus cry), and does make the text background under desktop icons transparent, but those are the only effects; the rest are turned off. I don’t like having the desktops Dual View, but for some reason, spanning doesn’t work. It works fine with Nvidia Twin View under Linux, but on XP, I can’t choose a resolution that looks right on both monitors, not even if I check the option to allow the screens to use different resolutions. I still don’t like not having a taskbar on the second monitor that would contain the applications running that are on that screen, so I wouldn’t have them all on one, but that’s only somewhat annoying. I installed Google Desktop because I miss my Screenlets when I use XP, but whether or not I’ll keep it depends upon whether it seems invasive or not; I’ll have to watch the firewall and see what it does. Anyway, I can live with it, and I can live with the memory usage. I finally got around to changing the saved password in WS FTP so I can use the context menu option to upload, too. It’s not Ubuntu, but it’s not bad.

I think I drunk-mailed L. last night. I know I meant to, and I’m pretty sure I did. Don’t remember what I wrote, and probably don’t want to remember. Maybe I shouldn’t have turned off Mail Goggles after all! 😛