"Windowsblinds jsut replaces teh UXTheme.dll upon startup and uses absolutely no resources."
I'd rather just use
Download Universal UXTheme Patcher 2.1 - Universal UXTheme Patcher patches uxtheme.dll allowing you to use 3rd party visual styles in Windows XP+ - Softpedia ux thempatcher which is free and uses no resources.
"Please stop telling people it is a resouce hog when for a fact it isnt even on the Task Manager."
TONS of things aren't in task manager and use resources, try autoruns to see how much is truly in your startup.
Last year I tried out windowsblinds and it did indeed use a little extra ram & cpu, very little but why give that up when you can get the same thing for free with just as many themes options for free with perfect stability?
As far as SP3, I'll wait until its official. A pre-beta release sounds like a good cause of instability from MS, and realistically, this is an os patch, which isn't even close to being released, on illegal download sites......sounds like a great way to screw your pc up, lol.
Did you scan the file with a couple scanners before opening?
How has resource usage/responsiveness changed since the install?
just curious.