Shell Themes

[futuristically_ancient]

What are shell themes for windows xp? How does one apply them?

[drgrudge]

Shellstyle.dll (I suppose you were reffering to as Shell themes ) is a file often bundled with the visual style that skins the common tasks pane (and other panes, e.g. the add/remove panel).

No installation is necessary. Simply unzip the visual style to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and make sure the shell folder is in the visual style folder along with the msstyles file.

[futuristically_ancient]

Actually...i downloaded some cool looking themes from deviantart.com. It was mentioned that those were SHELL THEMES meant for BLACKBOX.

This is confusing me. When i unzipped a theme download...all i found was a text file ..with some characters...and a jpeg image.

How do i install the theme FOR BLACKBOX? Where can i download this software?

[drgrudge]

Themes ar Visual Styles? Both are different.

I have never come across " BLACKBOX". The shell thing should have Shellstyle.dll and prolly nothing else (thats how I have in my system).

From this location you got your stuff?
http//browse.deviantart.com/skins/windows/visualstyle/

[saROMan]

Yah Black box was Actually ment for Linux..but They also got a Ver for Windows...Have tryed it but its Quite buggy ......any ways get all the Themes of your linking from here :


StyleXP
Aston
Talisman
WindowsBlinds
EvilDesk
Black Box
Litestep
FluxBox
DarkStep
GeoShell
SawFish


Note : i posted these links long back so donno how many Work now .....