hey whatsup everyone i just found a site that is new to me and it has the tools and designs you need to get rid of that boring blue XP Theme and download plenty of others oh yea it even has a tutorial on how to make your own but enough talk see for yourself if i seem excited in this post then... Yes Iam... heres the site www.customize.org from the moment i stumbled upon this site i added it to my favorites... as soon as i learn how i'll post a screen shot of what i have goin on and you'll see why i call it Windows XVista i mean why not have the beauty of vista and the sturdiness of XP?

A Warning from McAfee SiteAdvisor:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/customize...fe&aff_id=0

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well that sucks

from what the link shows everything is good as far as downloading the content i mean all the downloads checked out to be green and the site affiliates were also green but i will try to get in touch with the site owner or someone who can do something about the visibility of users e-mail addresses

I'm pretty sure you can just download the visual styles from there and not have to sign up for anything, or at least you used to be able to.
If not, just apply the uxtheme.dll patch from Neowin (hopefully you've done this by now already) and get your visual styles from DeviantArt, they have a pretty good selection.

These are some of the different visual styles I've used and made screenshots of.


One of the first I used. OSX-like theme.


Very popular and clean style called Luna Element 5.

Get it here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29511577/

Nope, not Vista. Style called VistaCG.


Logon screen I used to use.

i like the luna element i gotta check that out im a black and blue type of guy so im easily drawn to it

oh yea how do you make screenshots do i need any specific software? if so what would you suggest?

and there are 646 pages at this GREEN site.

I am using Fractal 219 at the moment. Very impressive.

http://www.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?libid=32&p=10

You don't need any software other than a decent image editor. Hit the PrtScr button to have Windows save a snapshot of your desktop to the clipboard, then paste that into an image editor. You can also hit Alt+PrtScr to only take a shot of the current window.

How to take and share a screen shot in Windows

Could you post a direct link ?

arcman, how did you get those icons on the top of your desktop that look like icons on a mac?

Also, I downloaded that vistaCG thing, but I don't know what I'm suppose to do. I used winrar to extract them to my desktop, and I don't know what I do from there.

I tried to use UXTheme multipacher 5.5 but it shows the following error.
UXtheme mltipatcher v5.5 has detected that theres any windows NT setup file in C:\Windows\i386
Its not recommend you to continue with this. Please eject your windows NT CD or move that folder to somewhere else. Press OK to exit UXTheme Multipatcher v 5.5.
Anyone can help.
thanks

Yeah that looks sharp...I'd like to know myself!

Those visual styles are bogus, and I mean bogus! I make better visual styles myself, as I am an visual style author.

I like Bricopacks from CrystalXP.net. Right now, I'm using their Vista Inspirat2 Theme (more like a total conversion!) Check it out:



That's a Vista-esque start buton and Window style (no Aero Glass, though), a Mac OS like Dock, and a translucent Taskbar.

http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=b...hdesktopyj3.jpg

In the screenshot, can someone tell me where I can download that weather box and the calender?