Screenshots

[Matt34]

Well after reading some of the nice HTPC setups you guys have I am curious what your screenshots look like. Call me weird but I like checking out other peoples setups and "borrowing" ideas.

I'll be polite and start with a pic of my current configuration.

 

[brian32672]

Hmm, mine would be not nice to post. Because I am not married, I kinda keep porn up there. But I just started from scratch again, and added 16 more MBps for the HDD, and almost doubled my frame rates for the VGA...

EDIT:: BTW, it looks as though you have way to much in the start-up bar. Not the quick launch. So all of those programs running in the start up bar is costing you serious performance.
Not my opinion, its just plain fact...
I think you could double your frame rates, with absolutely no overclocking...

EDIT #2:: BTW, nice talking with you Matt. Hopefully some of my tips help.
Once again, be leary of 18yr old advice... I was once there, and it was all about overclocking...
No disrespect Sheep
But anyways, I've been doing this since computers were in DOS syntax stage with 2 colors (Black & White)
Hmm, computer classes were not advanced enough for me... Hence Computer class sucked..

 

[Buckle-meister]

If anyone can guide me through the process to capture a (good quality) Desktop screenshot to Photobucket, I'll submit mine!

Regards

 

[Matt34]

If anyone can guide me through the process to capture a (good quality) Desktop screenshot to Photobucket, I'll submit mine!

Regards

Easiest way is to download a program called Snag-it. Very, very easy to do once you have that program with photobucket.

 

[brian32672]

Use almost any photo program. And just hit print screen on your keyboard.
Then open photo program, click new file, then click paste.

 

[Buckle-meister]

Thanks Matt34 and, of course, Brian32672. I have Photoshop, but as you may have gathered, am no whiz with computers!

Anyway, here is my present Desktop.

Hey, what can I say? Minimal, minimal, minimal. This is me down to a tee (sorry for the let-down Matt).

Regards

Oh, but if you want to see many wondrous places like this, I can show you!

 

[racquetman]

Oh, but if you want to see many wondrous places like this, I can show you!

Oh no, I'm not falling for that one again!! The last time a Scot invited me to see the highlands I ended up with a whisky hangover and my kilt around my ankles!!

 

[Buckle-meister]

...I ended up with a whisky hangover...

Yeah, I get them too. Tend to suffer worse from Whisky than other spirits I drink for some strange reason.

Regards

 

[brian32672]

Ok, I will post one. Its not one that I normally use, but I have used it before.
I try to keep it clean looking, also nothing unneeded in the start-up.

 

[Matt34]

That's a stunning picture buckle-meister!!

Brian called me up after I'd posted that screenshot and gave me a good lecture about unnecessary start menu programs.

I don't usually have alot of things running but as I told Brian I had added/deleted quite few programs that day.

Come-on now, where's the rest?

 

[droeses58]

I guess I'll throw mine in for the heck of it. [slow night]

 

[brian32672]

Ok, by chance I went to the Disney store. Yeah, I like that store.
And I always thought that Dory was real cute. So I went ahead and got her as well a Nemo.
Yeap, they are on the sub....

 

[miklorsmith]

Nice photo, swashBucklemeister. Did you take that yourself, or is that someone else's vision of your happy place?

Re: whiskey hangovers - whiskey has a tremendous amout of malt and, hence, sugars. Physiologically, I have no idea what this does, but drinking a lot of sugared booze will punish. Wanna assure no hangover? Drop a shot of Tanqueray 10 (or your favorite gin) into a tumbler. Add one ice cube. Drink. Repeat. Once the ice melts just a little, it's pretty tasty. And, no nasty sugars. I guarantee* you won't get hung over from this.

On the flip side, if you want to see how bad a hangover can get, drink wine then follow with scotch. Oy vey, please kill me, or something along those lines with your own, special flair.

 

[Buckle-meister]

Did you take that yourself, or is that someone else's vision of your happy place?

Pfft! I took it of course. I was only a little way up Sgurr Mhor when the clouds broke a little and 'a moment' occurred. Hastily, I whisked out the camera and got the shot.

The photo will more than likely appear very dark if you happen to have a deep-backed monitor. My own is much thinner and depending on the angle I view at, the photo is lighter and has fabulous presence. Naturally though, no matter how good the photo, there's nothing quite like seeing such vistas for oneself.

...whiskey has a tremendous amout of malt and, hence, sugars.

Yes, I know. My old man works in a Whiskey Distillery.

Regards

 

[MDS]

Liquor before beer, never fear; Beer before liquor, never sicker. That's all you have to remember.

 

[Francious70]

Well after reading some of the nice HTPC setups you guys have I am curious what your screenshots look like. Call me weird but I like checking out other peoples setups and "borrowing" ideas.

I'll be polite and start with a pic of my current configuration.

WTF?? Are you running Longhorn??

BTW, this is what mine looks like

 

[Hi Ho]

Here's mine. It's not Apple, I just like that skin.

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[Sheep]

How do I get mine down from 1280 x 1024 so it will fit? Then you will see a masterful background...

SheepStar

Edit: Ok, This is the picture I use, just throw some Icons on it and you have my background.

 

[brian32672]

Oh you mean like this.

EDIT:: Just in case you have more icons, I added the second pic with a few more icons. And IE opened 35 times

 

[Sheep]

Yes


Its sexy isn't it.....I love black.....I see a color and I want it painted black...


SheepStar