I think everyone is still sleeping!    ...btw I love my windows7! 

Am also a W7 user and will not go to W8.

Hi gef,

Long time no see.  Do you still have a library fo your cutomization work posted anywhere?

I would love to take a look.

Sorry but not anymore, only for my own amusement.

I see no point in a touch screen while I am sitting at my desk. I often use my PC to work from home and Win8 would be pointless in this regard. My daughter has it on her rig and she always uses the keyboard and mouse. She would rather have Win7.

As far as customizing it looks like Stardock is trying to go there with 8 and I see that some WB's are now made for 7 and 8 but I wouldn't know how that is working out.

I'll be using Win7 for quite some time I think. When it comes time for a new rig I hope that Microsoft will have something better than 8 going on. P

Win 7 until they stop support

The next version of Windows is going to have a combination of legacy start menu and tiles. It looks pretty nice from what I've seen.

Currently, yeah you have to take a step backwards with your start menu to get a windowblinds to skin it. I sincerely hope this will cease when MS changes the start menu system. 

Gef, you're a tad late. This topic has been beaten to death.

But for the record, all my skinning is done on Windows 8.1 these days.

RedneckDude, you say you do your skinning on 8.1 but is that used on 8.1 or 7 ?

I still have not seen a Windows 8 customised desktop. Do you know of any?

gef, I believe I have seen customized Windows 8/8.1 Desktops, meaning the old familar Desktop and not the Metro/Modern screen that I think you are talking about.  I don't think much can be done with that.   

I will go over to Linux before I would touch windows 8.

Gef, take a look at any of my latest WB's, what you see in the screenshot is Windows 7, and looks almost exactly the same on Windows 8.1. With the right customization software, Start 8 in particular, and a program called OldNewExplorer that converts the explorer window back to the look of Windows 7, you can make Windows 8/8.1 look great.

I just realized something......I still have a Windows XP Pro disk. I wonder how much I can get for it. Lol

Lightstar,  yes, I agree the windows will look the same, it's the actual desktop I'm referring to.

With windows 8, you cannot even have a decent wallpaper unless it's obliterated by the 'tiles'.

Utah, It's certainly worth more than a windows 8 disc !