Skinning/modding/Styling your desktop guides

[lokster]

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as usual the safest i know is flyakitemacosX 3.5

tryout iconpackager to change your icons, great icons at crystalxp.net freeware ni btw
avedesk to make you icons on desktop animated when your mouse hovers over it
and objectdock or rocketdock, very kool
konfabulator for desktop widgets


DONOT SCREW AROUND WITH THE WINXP CODE, seriously if you dont know what your doing dont do it. you could lose alot
and if you find installers like flyakite that changes alot of stuff please check out their forums and hear out the problems and bugs. there may be more bugs than youd want to change the look :mrgreen:

[wendellmb]

nothing will go wrong if you make a restore point... :mrgreen:

[lokster]

wondering what are the install packs you know that would change your whole look of your windowsXp
in just one install also i dont know how mssytle works, anybody can give a background?

[lokster]

ahah check this out for windows vista style note. modding ni sa xp not the real windows vista. pretty good

http://www.winmodify.net/?page=WindowsVista

also for more information when it comes to windows XP modding. check out

www.winmatrix.com

[Uzumaki Naruto]

bai loks, pwde borrow flyakiteosx installer? free man siya diba? no time to DL at home

[wendellmb]

wondering what are the install packs you know that would change your whole look of your windowsXp
in just one install also i dont know how mssytle works, anybody can give a background?Â*

hi, sorry for quoting you.

anyhow, im wendell's cousin.. and im in his pc right now (obviously).. his in bantayan w/ his "girl" (that lucky bastard..opps..) heheh..

this is a very nice topic you got here.. i just knew all this thing last week.. of course who could have taught me..(me wonders) Â* lol

anyho.. when i turn on his pc.. i cant believe it, because a thought his using vista already..lol
will, his boot screen say Microsoft windows vista..

it change alot.. to icons, task bar, menus.. window.. as in everything.. it dont really look like XP anymore.. as in.. wow..
thats when i started to ask questions... and tinuroan naman nya me..

and oh.. regarding to thatÂ* .msstyle.. it only works fow StyleXP.. cos wendell xplain to me the diff. between a Windowblind skin file (.wba) and a styleXP file w/c has (.msstyle) if its not the whole theme file..

will... hope that helps...


hmmm.... i like this forum.. me wanna register..

see ya around...

cant wait to try this.. when i get back to manila.. :mrgreen:

[lokster]

well i kind of find that bias. i learnt after extensive research and use that you need a uxtheme.dll updater, and then you can use whatvever msstyle you want, im using ux themepatcher 5.0 and its great. there are many other options even flyakite, uh


@uzumaki naruto. its only 32mb. yeah free and you can downloading.

[wendellmb]

im back... sori sa akong boang nga cousin.. nanghilabot..

hmm.. about sa mga docks.. mas mo prefer ko sa RK kay sa Objectdock.. mas gaan man cya gud.. wala pa sad ko ka try sa rocket.. mao ra to. imo lang..

[Nezumix22]

If you really want to change toolbars in explorer, there is WB5 but there is another app that offers full customization (not only the icons) and its called styler.

here's the link. The author is japanese and it might be confusing at first..

http://stylefantasist.com/


Trial lang po but PM me for more details about getting the full version..

[lokster]

im using objectdock. and i dont have any problems with it and iconpackager which is pretty neat

@nezumix22 thats like more for japanese type \people, and i havent heard much of it, WB5 is a 3rd party thing, i want to use but im afraid it'l slow down the computer and also it might screw up the system. lots of sad stories of how bad WB5 can be