And one of the best features is the search box on the start menu. I love being able to drag a window to the left or right side to maximize to that half of the screen, or being able to 'peek' at my desktop or minimize everything by pointing at or clicking on the box to the right of the clock. You can make Win7 look any way you want it, except the start button, haven't figured that out yet. That you had to go third-party to make the OS look good is sad. That and the login screen from XPize is the only way I'd have my XP when I ran that OS. The Media Center theme is absolutely beautiful (the pirated one that everyone who doesn't have Media Center has is called Royale) with a metallic blue on the taskbar and a royal blue start button. XP is a little loud with the default green and blue, and the other two options are outright ugly. The "eye candy" is nice, I wouldn't call it too much though. I advised the user to upgrade his RAM and get Win7 but in the meantime gave him the XP Home OEM install that matched his sticker. Just testing it, I tried to install my copy on an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2GHz box with 512MB of RAM and onboard video. You do need at least 1GB of RAM to run it, though. Look, I used to hate Win7, and now I endorse it wholeheartedly.
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