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[RickSOLET]

now according to someones post, windows blinds uses 5-10% of physical memory. so if it uses 5% of my 3gig ram, thats 600mb ram?

This is not true.

[Villain]

Well, to add in my two cents, All I know is that when i was on my old PC (2.x Ghz, single core, 3GB Ram) and when i used WindowBlinds, I DID see a bit of a slowdown. That was also a year ago, so they may have made some improvements. I guess that it all depends on your computer. I have a much better, quadcore CPU, 8GB Ram, and i probaly could run WindowBlinds if i wanted to... but i dont. I have just stuck with hacked .msstyles.

@RickSOLET: Can you post your info saying that WB causes no slowdown please? (I hate to sound mean or eveil here, but i dont trust what StarDocks says... I think they lie of the recommended specs just to get more users. But this is also biased on when i was on my old pc... so take what i say with a grain of salt, ok?)

[AppliArt]

dear readers, i hope all of you will share some insight and opinions regarding my post.
firstly, my primary use for my pc is multimedia. I play a fair amount of games that require quite a lot of system resources(like elder scrolls iv with maxed settings and online games that need insane fps), music and some videos. My pc spec is a intel core2duo 2.8 with 4gig ram, though i am using xp so only 3gig is usable and a geforce gt 220 graphics card.

now according to someones post, windows blinds uses 5-10% of physical memory. so if it uses 5% of my 3gig ram, thats 600mb ram? that cant be right, but anyways. will using windows blinds with a fast pc like mine have a noticeable effect at startup and while running games or multitasking?

also, i have heard that the actual problem with windows blinds isnt that it might slow your pc down a little or a fair bit, but that it installs and modifies some registry files, which in turn causes windows errors after a while and that is the actual thing that slows your pc down at startup especially?

You won't notice WB at all, it really does not slow things down. And you did a mistake with your calculation => 5% of 3Gb is not 600Mb but a mere 150mb => 5/100 * 3000

[Villain]

dear readers, i hope all of you will share some insight and opinions regarding my post.
firstly, my primary use for my pc is multimedia. I play a fair amount of games that require quite a lot of system resources(like elder scrolls iv with maxed settings and online games that need insane fps), music and some videos. My pc spec is a intel core2duo 2.8 with 4gig ram, though i am using xp so only 3gig is usable and a geforce gt 220 graphics card.

now according to someones post, windows blinds uses 5-10% of physical memory. so if it uses 5% of my 3gig ram, thats 600mb ram? that cant be right, but anyways. will using windows blinds with a fast pc like mine have a noticeable effect at startup and while running games or multitasking?

also, i have heard that the actual problem with windows blinds isnt that it might slow your pc down a little or a fair bit, but that it installs and modifies some registry files, which in turn causes windows errors after a while and that is the actual thing that slows your pc down at startup especially?

You won't notice WB at all, it really does not slow things down. And you did a mistake with your calculation => 5% of 3Gb is not 600Mb but a mere 150mb => 5/100 * 3000

Yeah well still, 150MB per one app is still a lot of RAM.

[The Alpha Gamer]

I only used it once a few years ago, but it slowed my computer (on XP) down so much that i actualy had to wait for the start menu to open after clicking it

[hab]

I just don't like it. It uses memory to modify the Windows 7 themes. Why not just use visual styles so there's absolutely no slowdown at all. For XP, it'll be especially slow because it's mimicking the Aero/blur borders and stuff whereas in Windows Vista and 7, it's implemented in the operating system. so there will be less of a slow down.

Edited by hab, 13 November 2010 - 09:42 PM.

[OverKlockD]

I just checked my task manager and the windowblinds exe seems to be only using a little less that 3mb. I'm on windows7. I don't know where these huge amounts you are talking about came from.

[club90]

Yes it does. Its giving you aero which its a lot of effort for the computer to do so.

[The Flashing Fish]

dear readers, i hope all of you will share some insight and opinions regarding my post.
firstly, my primary use for my pc is multimedia. I play a fair amount of games that require quite a lot of system resources(like elder scrolls iv with maxed settings and online games that need insane fps), music and some videos. My pc spec is a intel core2duo 2.8 with 4gig ram, though i am using xp so only 3gig is usable and a geforce gt 220 graphics card.

now according to someones post, windows blinds uses 5-10% of physical memory. so if it uses 5% of my 3gig ram, thats 600mb ram? that cant be right, but anyways. will using windows blinds with a fast pc like mine have a noticeable effect at startup and while running games or multitasking?

also, i have heard that the actual problem with windows blinds isnt that it might slow your pc down a little or a fair bit, but that it installs and modifies some registry files, which in turn causes windows errors after a while and that is the actual thing that slows your pc down at startup especially?

You won't notice WB at all, it really does not slow things down. And you did a mistake with your calculation => 5% of 3Gb is not 600Mb but a mere 150mb => 5/100 * 3000

Yeah well still, 150MB per one app is still a lot of RAM.

Memory usage of a program isn't dictated by a percentage, but rather based off of how much it simply needs. The percentage of memory used is obviously going to be dependent on how much memory you have installed. If a program uses 100 mb of 1 gb of RAM, it uses about 10% of the memory. But if I have 2 GB of RAM, it doesn't use 200 mb of RAM, but rather still 100 mb and only 5% of the memory.

The percentage given in the OP is irrelevant without knowing what that number is based off of.

[LonghornGT]

Emerald compiz looks at windowblinds like at...

[InlineSkate]

I just don't like it. It uses memory to modify the Windows 7 themes. Why not just use visual styles so there's absolutely no slowdown at all. For XP, it'll be especially slow because it's mimicking the Aero/blur borders and stuff whereas in Windows Vista and 7, it's implemented in the operating system. so there will be less of a slow down.

It uses memory because its safer and less likely to corrupt the system god forbid something go wrong.

[ayoshi]

Does WindowBlinds slow down PC?

It will slow down the PC if the hardware is not that fast enough to handle the requirements for Windowsblinds.

[Makcalable]

If your trying to make your system look nice, than windows blinds is fine. But every time you run more programs in the background, you will have a slight performance loss no matter what OS your running or how much RAM you have.

[PurplePeopleEater]

Yeah well still, 150MB per one app is still a lot of RAM.

Have you tried Google Chrome? xD

I do believe Window's blinds started using GPU acceleration so as not to tax the CPU. Therefore if you have a relatively modern computer you wont notice a slowdown