I totaly agree with JV16.
Software like SpySweeper with all those 'nice' looking buttons, for one all eat memory like its nothing. And secondly, all those apps take so much 'screen' space, when it can be so much smaller, and easyer to few.
But hey, tast is something personal, and i think that the developer of any program gets the lead chouch of what to do.
Im a classic-Windows style person my self.
Because i don't need all those fancy colors and neat effects.
I Guese that you use the a Windows Theme.
If so, you see that its just the way ppl want to have things looking.