April 2006-

For the Executive VP who likes things simple, without the unecessary technical garble, and still be able to play Everquest 2

I was actually inspired by Everquest 2 to make this desktop, or better yet inspired to improve EQ2's performance when windowed lol. After facing countless slowdowns while playing EQ2, I desperately opened my process viewer and terminated every process that I deemed unnecessary, and performance improved slightly, so I decided to do the unthinkable. . . terminate explorer.exe. Since performance skyrocketed because I ended that process, I figured, "why don't I just stop using it altogether. .. . . ?"

The shell you're viewing now is called Emerge (defined by the system tray in the upper left corner and the transparent menu,) and uses only 55 percent (est.) of the resources explorer's enviornment used (at least on my system.) In addition, the memory used rarely increases, and doesn't drastically because all you can do is open a trimmed down program menu version of your start menu ("all users" and "current user" shortcuts.) The clock (author unknown) and the date (by Judge) are being ran using AveDesk's sysstats, also using only a fraction of resources. The programs at the bottom left of the screen are Y'z Dock and random icons I found on the internet (the majority of them here at deviantART lol.) The wallpaper is from a Longhorn wallpaper set (I can't remember the name or where to find it, the filename is "2.jpg")

- Jookie Jenkins