Hey, I have recently stumbled upon a windows "shell" program that completely replaces the normal GUI. it is called serenade, have you guys had any experience with this? Heres a link to check it out:
http://www.courtah.net/about/Downloads
I'd have to say that I highly recommend it, it is much more efficient than the default windows GUI and I like the built-in volume control and CPU monitor

so please tell me what you think
c ya