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[-Dexter]

ight guys, here's a little tutorial for some ppl who have been asking

Make Your XP Look Like Vista!

ok, let's start out with a nice Vista theme for XP

you can find that right here.

TO INSTALL!: please remember that you simply take the file they've zipped for you, and extract it to your C:/WINDOWS/Resources/Themes folder.

Now, RESTART your PC. this is crucial!

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after you've restarted, RIGHT-CLICK an empty spot on your desktop and click Properties. Click the "Appearance" tab and click the first "Windows Styles and Buttons" selection box. Select the one of the few iVista themes you just installed, and customize it to your liking with the other selection boxes... Now is the time for change: go ahead and press Apply. Wait a few moments for it to finish, and then check out your new theme

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ight, so now you have the theme, but where's that cool clock on the right? and that calender? ah, my friend, we have a solution for that!

Click onto the Yahoo! Widget Homepage, and go ahead and download it.

By default, it gives you a clock and some other stuff... but that's not nearly what we're looking for. Go back to the Yahoo! Widget Homepage, and check out the Yahoo! Widget Gallery. Here you can find an abundance of clocks, calenders and RSS feeds. You should save them to your Yahoo! Widget Engine root folder so you can access them with all the other Widgets.

What about that horizontal bar behind the clock and calender that you always see on a Vista OS computer? There's a solution for that too! But you have to make it manually- and if you're not up to the challenge, then don't worry about it but it's easy because a loser like me made one

You'll need to download the ever-so-popular Samurize. Basically, it's a somewhat-easy way to create your own custom widgets, but not thru the Yahoo! Widget Engine. You'll need to download and install the Serious_Samurize_1.64.2.exe off of their downloads section.

Now that it's installed, hop onto your start menu and open Samurize's Config Tool. What you see is a layout of your desktop (but blank and grey). Make a new graphic as a square or elipse or whatever and make it stretch from almost top to bottom of your desktop- color it how you like- but make it somewhat opaque. Now save it to the default Samurize Configs file.

Now go back to your start menu and open Samurize. Back on your desktop, right-click the Samurize quick-launch icon and hover over Select Config File, and click the one you've just created. Now freely drag it underneath your spankin new Widgets.

and now, my friend, you have a Vista-lookalike PC!

DISCLAIMER!: This visual style is NOT a real copy of Microsoft's 'Windows Vista', and is simply a look-alike. That means that you should still buy 'Windows Vista' if you want to. < so please don't flame

-- thanks for reading, and good luck!

[h.V]

I had used alot of add on program for my windows xp could look like vista, it is not worth it, you will notice misktakes, the different font, and you system will slow down, so I came with the conclusion that it is not worth at all, wait util you get Windows Vista Home, is better...

but nice tuv.

[-Dexter]

Hugo_Boss, on Mar 3 2007, 10:54 PM, said:

I had used alot of add on program for my windows xp could look like vista, it is not worth it, you will notice misktakes, the different font, and you system will slow down, so I came with the conclusion that it is not worth at all, wait util you get Windows Vista Home, is better...

but nice tuv.

thanks Hugo_Boss, and yes, for some people with very low level PC's, this might not be the visual style for you

[-Dexter]

oh and btw,

FOR ALL YOUR Vista WALLPAPER NEEDS!

Visit Longhorn's wallpaper stash right here: http://neosmart.net/...y/v/wallpapers/

good luck!

[GuttahMastah]

Is there any way you can do this without having to be an administrator account to change the file from read-only files?

[Bill]

pwn247, on Mar 6 2007, 10:47 AM, said:

oh and btw,

FOR ALL YOUR Vista WALLPAPER NEEDS!

Visit Longhorn's wallpaper stash right here: http://neosmart.net/...y/v/wallpapers/

good luck!

Thanks, man! I was waiting for someone to show me a cool wallpaper site.

[tropicalfish]

Nice! Thanks! I am still getting used to the darker theme though...

[-Dexter]

g4cytheclown, on Mar 7 2007, 12:19 AM, said:

pwn247, on Mar 6 2007, 10:47 AM, said:

oh and btw,

FOR ALL YOUR Vista WALLPAPER NEEDS!

Visit Longhorn's wallpaper stash right here: http://neosmart.net/...y/v/wallpapers/

good luck!

Thanks, man! I was waiting for someone to show me a cool wallpaper site.

heh- Longhorn always has some beasty wallpapers


@ Donovan: not right now

[GuttahMastah]

pwn247, on Mar 7 2007, 11:36 AM, said:

g4cytheclown, on Mar 7 2007, 12:19 AM, said:

pwn247, on Mar 6 2007, 10:47 AM, said:

oh and btw,

FOR ALL YOUR Vista WALLPAPER NEEDS!

Visit Longhorn's wallpaper stash right here: http://neosmart.net/...y/v/wallpapers/

good luck!

Thanks, man! I was waiting for someone to show me a cool wallpaper site.

heh- Longhorn always has some beasty wallpapers


@ Donovan: not right now

[Chief_Bean]

Have you got a screenshot of the finished product?

I'd like to see it

[-Dexter]

Chief_Bean, on Mar 9 2007, 12:45 PM, said:

Have you got a screenshot of the finished product?

I'd like to see it

srry chief bean i've already changed my theme

[frontiersim]

Thats pretty cool!

[Manny]

if it works as you guys say ill love it!

[h.V]

I have to say, it is pretty cool, but the bad thing is that, it doenst make the whole system look like windows vista, but it is still cool

[h.V]

Pretty cool

But here are some problems

Toolbar



THE MY DOCUMENT ALSO



I think that's all

[TND4NOS]

Not bad, but it doesnt really look like vista IMO

[h.V]

No "Vista look" will be 100% Vista of couse..

But you could always buy Vista..

[h.V]

Vista Transformation Pack 6.0  right using, It is amazing!

[h.V]

ok, now I don't recomend you use nothing...it messed up my XP look.. Now i need to format