I sure was. Yeah, you can give your OS a mild overhaul by rotating out your favorite desktop images, icons, startup screens (remember the WinBlows startup screen I made for 95?) and sounds, but that still leaves the most bothersome thing about windows…its shell. I can’t stand it. You’ve got a frickin’ huge screen (run to your local store if you don’t) and all you can manage to do with it is cram 500 shortcuts on it. Bleh. Usually to escape windows means to use a different OS - Linux, MacOS, … DOS. But just the other day I found a sweet item on the internet. It’s called Aston, and should be downloaded immediately, when you get the chance. It’s a windows desktop/shell replacement that consumes less resources than the default shell. It’s also fully customizable and allows the best organization of files and folders on the desktop that I’ve seen so far. I have not seen any conflicts with installed programs, since *basically* you’re still running windows. I dunno, I’m too excited about this to be coherent. Just check it out. And chuck your shell.

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