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  1. Review - Winstep Xtreme

    1.0 Beta 3 (Jul 2, 2006)

    igoldsmid, the *apparent* 'performance hit' you are referring to only happens at the beginning when Xtreme is busy accessing the net to get the time and weather information, check for updates, etc... I say *apparent* because it is not actually 'stealing' CPU cycles from other applications, it is just gobbling up all the *available* CPU cycles (different thing). And, as I said, this only happens for a few seconds - you would have noticed this yourself had you not removed it within minutes of installing. :-)

    To prove this, Winstep Xtreme is quite snappy on a very old PII 350Mhz machine I have here.

  2. Review - NextSTART

    3.4 Build 229 Beta 7 (Nov 30, 2005)

    Barin, the reason you couldn't install it is because you failed to read the instructions above :-) : this is a beta and MUST be installed on top of a previous FULL version.

    Although skin development for NextSTART is a bit slow these days, there are still THOUSANDS of skins freely available for it online. Also, NextSTART is not about eye-candy, but about FUNCTIONALIY - it's been around and in constant development since 1998 and you won't find anything as powerful as this anywhere.