looks like that just removes the start button?
I think I have 7 looking the way I want it now. oddly I think it runs better with the fancy stuff than when I have it looking like 98. or maybe that's just because I expected it to run like shit/noticeably slower. I think I'm gonna give this "pin to taskbar" business a shot too. Now if I could only make the taskbar a little thinner it'd be perfect (oh and get MSN to look like it does when I run in oldschool mode, with the shrink/resize/close buttons just added to the window and not requiring their own bar) actually now that I think about it the title bar of any window is completely useless.
edit: like this
slightly offtopic but is there any way to remove Vista from my other partition while leaving everything else alone?