improve appearance of xp

[varunprabhakar]

wot r the various softwares available which can change d luks of windows xp?? i have seen xp in ppl's cmptrs which dont luk anything like xp. they r very much cool in interface.

[Ricky]

umm..
I have 768MB of RAM (soon shall be 1 GB) but still I prefer to use old classic style adjusted to have best performance.

Its not related to your qustion in any sense but just wanted to give my view / advice that always looks is not the right measure to measure the worth !

[varunprabhakar]

thx 4 ur advice. i ve 512mb ram n i think its gud enough for xp?? but i ll really like to try these. n as far as i think they r not as resource hungry. they just chang the shell in windows

[Ricky]

PS:

Now my linux is even without GUI !

[Lucky_star]

Try crystal xp.
It is one of the best freeware themes available for windows XP. Find it out here.
Look out for the bricopacks they provide.
If u want to go for paid versions, then Windowblinds is best.
If u want to go for the look and feel of Vista go for the Vista transformation pack.

[varunprabhakar]

thx mate
__________
but it is giving bad link

[Lucky_star]

Here is the correct link: Crystal XP
It would be better to go for Crystal Xp than opting for Vista transformation pack, as it causes much problems.

[Vishal Gupta]

1.) You can use various 3rd party visual styles to change the look of XP. Once I made one VS "VistaVG", which u can find here:

VistaVG1.0
VistaVG2.0

2.) U can also download various Iconpacks to change the XP default icons, just search at DeviantArt for them.

3.) U can use Tuneup Utilities to create ur own bootscreen.

4.) U can also download various Login screens from DeviantArt.

After following all these steps, u'll get completely different XP

[Lucky_star]

Hey Vishal, you changed ur avatar? Last one was looking better. From that I got a vague figure of how u might be looking

[Vishal Gupta]

lol

[Kniwor]

patch the uxtheme.dll using the neowin patch and visit the neowin forum for cool themes, u dont ned any software or anything, and it's the coolest, or I have made an installer which i will post, it will do everyhitng, and is legally free.

[ashisharya]

style xp for visual styles
tune up for bot screen, logon screen n much more

[drgrudge]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

patch the uxtheme.dll using the neowin patch and visit the neowin forum for cool themes, u dont ned any software or anything, and it's the coolest, or I have made an installer which i will post, it will do everyhitng, and is legally free.

I also do the same thing. There're many Visual Themes that you can install for your XP. It completely changes the appearance of XP. I never mess around with the icons,bootup screen and things.

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by varunprabhakar

wot r the various softwares available which can change d luks of windows xp?? i have seen xp in ppl's cmptrs which dont luk anything like xp. they r very much cool in interface.

Here are some softwares that will change the look of your windows...

Download the following from that link:

WindowBlinds -> For changing the skin of XP.It is 60 day trial.
IconPackager -> For changing the icons of XP.It also trial for 60 days.
LogonStudio -> For changing the logon(or welcome screen) of XP.It is freeware.

Install it & enjoy.

and also download the additional skins,icons,logons for these softwares.

Link -> Here

[blueshift]

I am sure Vishal has hacked versions of every file..be it Control panel, Explorer or Login screen.

[piyush gupta]

Guys why not changed thread name to "Diff looks of windows XP"

form me i use

uxtheme patch

Resource hacker
also some tweaks
present in vishals threads

it changes look of my pc also no extra memory is used