Changing windows XP's look and feel

[Adam Cruge]

I want to customize the looks of my XP, for example changing start menu, changing taskbar and many more . Which programming language should I use to do so ?
And would you provide some tutorial regarding this ?

[sakumar79]

There are many readily available software for changing the appearance of xp... Why do you want to write it on your own?

Arun

[Adam Cruge]

I just wanna write ...I don't wanna use third party software....
I have used a lot third party softwares but this time round i myself wanna write my own code...
Please help...
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I just wanna write ...I don't wanna use third party software....
I have used a lot third party softwares but this time round i myself wanna write my own code...
Please help...

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Do u know Windows Programming??

Then try VC++

U can also use GTK+

Python is also gr8...!!

Well I dunno much about these.....But wait for other members for their views and till then ask our own Google Da......!!

[Adam Cruge]

can I customize the taskbar using these language ?

[puneetgarg]

i used reshack once to change certain things in XP
but it again is a software not a code or lang

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Though resource hacker is a app but u can modify sys32 .dll scrips with it.

But if u want everything from scratch then go for Windows Programming(VC++)

Yup u can change everything and build nything u want(GUI Windows based) in Win Prog.