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[Neil.]

Ok so recently I've had a quite a few people pm'ing me asking about my desktop and how I changed the looks of it.

So here is a quick guide on what I did and used to get it looking as it is now.

I wanted to change the themes of XP without using a third party program such as Style XP, so I downloaded Uxtheme patcher from here:

Uxtheme Patcher

This little program will enable you to use unsigned themes without XP complaining

After that little program has done it's job I started to download a load of themes from:

Here

Or

Here

I installed the themes into here: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes



And fonts into here if needed: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

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Object Dock

Or

RKLauncher (I use this one )

I then started to download various Dock icons for each of the programs I have from here:

Link

Using the above link I was able to replace icons on the desktop by:

Right Clicking on icon>Properties>Change Icon

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Here are some links I use for icons, wallpapers, etc.

Icons
100's of top quality icons
DeviantArt - nuff said....
Various

The end result is this.

Edited by Neil., 02 June 2005 - 07:58 PM.

[SamGuest]

omg that is simply amazing, im going to do mine now - will post before and after shots  

[Boeing_Pilot]

Tell me each theme u got!! hehe

[Neil.]

Every theme I have is in the picture under the C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes section

[Boeing_Pilot]

Which one is the MAC look alike

[Neil.]

Boeing_Pilot, on Feb 3 2005, 10:39 PM, said:

Which one is the MAC look alike

Tiger is but here are some more:

Link
Link
Link
Link

[James22]

I suually use stylexp, im pretty good with it, but im going to try this, i will post a shot when im done.

[James22]

Ok that first program gives me some message talking about windows NT files, and says it dosnt recomend i continue, what do i do about this?

[Neil.]

If it's about file protection, just click ignore and reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.

You might want to consider uninstalling Style Xp just incase.

[Evan321]

Pin this

[Boeing_Pilot]

I cant find tiger on the site

[Neil.]

Boeing_Pilot, on Feb 3 2005, 10:51 PM, said:

I cant find tiger on the site

Click Me

[Boeing_Pilot]

Tell me step by step which one to install to get what u got

[Visionary]

what theme are you using in hte pics above

this should be pinned    

[Neil.]

I was using ESD, but have now switched over to OSX Panther lol.

Edited by leworthy, 03 February 2005 - 05:54 PM.

[Boeing_Pilot]

Where do I put the cursors files etc...

[Boeing_Pilot]

I downloaded the Tiger theme now what

[Neil.]

Boeing_Pilot, on Feb 3 2005, 10:58 PM, said:

Where do I put the cursors files etc...

They go in the folder of the theme you are installing.

e.g. for the Jaguar theme:

C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\MIMIC II Jaguar

[Neil.]

Boeing_Pilot, on Feb 3 2005, 11:00 PM, said:

I downloaded the Tiger theme now what

Open up the .zip or .rar the theme is in.

Then highlight the contents of the .zip



And click and drag into C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes

Then to select the theme, just right click on the desktop>Properties

And change the theme the normal way.

[Boeing_Pilot]

Ok and now how do I get all those nice Icons and stuff