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  Posted 11 September 2005 - 01:41 AM

I need to find some good skins for windows xp. If know of any good downloads or sites please post it. The regular xp theme is pretty . Please post if you know of a site.

MOVED TO ENTERTAINMENT
Not really a software request.

Posted 11 September 2005 - 01:47 AM

  Posted 11 September 2005 - 01:56 AM

Thanks for the post. That's a nice site.

  Posted 11 September 2005 - 02:12 AM

How do i apply themes?

  Posted 11 September 2005 - 02:15 AM

Never mind i found out how. If anyone knows of anywhere else to get themes post it.

Posted 11 September 2005 - 02:35 AM

I'm using the Royale theme. (leaked from the Media Center 2005)

Want more themes? Try ThemeXP:
http://www.themexp.org/

Consider getting WINXP plus pack if want themes, screensavers etc for WINXP.
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Plus/PlusHome.asp
Yes, I realize it costs money.

Otherwise, look at 3rd party theme managers for Windows. StyleXP is my favorite.
http://www.tgtsoft.com/

  Posted 11 September 2005 - 01:31 PM

QUOTE(Elite7Christian7 @ Sep 10 2005, 07:41 PM)

I need to find some good skins for windows xp. If know of any good downloads or sites please post it. The regular xp theme is pretty . Please post if you know of a site.   

Is what i orriganlly ment, but to be more speccefic. I need some good "visual styles" which i think are bassically the same as themes. If you know how they are different correct me(scream at me)and tell me . I don't really care. Thanks Mischcabob i found a lot of good themes and visual styles at http://www.themexp.org/

Posted 11 September 2005 - 02:21 PM

Well what i've been looking for the past 10 minutes. It looks like "visual styles" are a type of theme, but i'm still saying that "visual styles" are another word for themes. Correct me if i'm wrong. So if you know of any other theme sites be happy to post it.

Posted 11 September 2005 - 06:46 PM

XP comes with a one "visual style", with three color variations, that uses bitmaps to draw a window and most of the UI. Same as skinning, but this time the bitmaps, .ini files, .xml files and some more are incorporated in some heavy .dll, .theme, and .msstyles files. Visual Styles implies more advanced effects and skinning technology for WINXP whereas themes is a general term for packaging cursors, wallpaper, screensavers, logon screens etc.

However, if you want to use more visual styles with WINXP you will have to patch the skinning engine (break windows protection) to allow you to use unsigned visual styles. StyleXP like I mentioned above (see corrected URL) is one of those programs.

Want more theme sites? Just do a search in Google.

Posted 11 September 2005 - 07:20 PM

I had allready searched google didn't find anything good(atleast on the first page )

Posted 15 September 2005 - 07:47 AM

  Posted 15 September 2005 - 08:45 PM

Ok I'll try it . Thank you.

Posted 15 September 2005 - 10:16 PM

That royale theme is pretty nice ... thanks euromix ... if only I could make it silver it would be even cooler, but blue is fine too.

Posted 15 September 2005 - 10:59 PM

QUOTE(H_TeXMeX_H @ Sep 15 2005, 10:16 PM)

That royale theme is pretty nice ... thanks euromix  ...

I'm glad you like it, Texmex; welcome!

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if only I could make it silver it would be even cooler, but blue is fine too.

Did you try from Properties > Appearance ?

Posted 16 September 2005 - 02:53 AM

QUOTE(euromix @ Sep 15 2005, 05:59 PM)

I'm glad you like it, Texmex; welcome! 

Did you try from Properties > Appearance ?

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yeah I tried it ... it doesn't work, but blue looks fine ... color doesn't matter as much as look to me.