Styling with XP

[Andrew Pratt]

If you've ever wanted to really personalize your XP machine you really need to check out the Style XP utility which is available here. Once installed you'll be able to install any of the login screens, desktops and themes from this site. There's some very cool designs available from a GUI that looks like OSX to some wild and colourful ones.

Here's what I picked Login Screen and my desktop showing new GUI

[Trevor Schell]

Great looking desktop Andrew!!:T




Trevor
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[Chip]

Andrew,

That is super freaking cool!!! I just D/L'd it and am playing around with it... I D/L'd a boat load of themes... I have my desktop set to something similar to yours without the red lightning... couldn't find that exact one ?




Chip Engle


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[Andrew Pratt]

Chip I'll email it to you if you like. There's so many there its nearly impossible to go though them all 8O

[Chip]

Andrew,

Actually, i found it with blue lightning and installed it... What the heck is the difference between a visual style and a theme ? I know what backgrounds are- wallpaper.
This program is REALLY cool.




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[Bing Fung]

Nice looking desktop Andrew :T

I have to admitt though, I'm not a big fan of "overhead" programs...

One day I may try one to see what I have been missing




Bing

[SiliGoose]

StyleXP can be set to take up zero resources. You might eat up some RAM with the desktop image but you could do that without StyleXP. Besides, most of us have a buttload of RAM to begin with.

I use a theme called "coughdrop". I used the dark colored themes at first too but I got tired of them. The cool thing about StyleXP is that it can be set to rotate through your various themes. It will rotate through background images too if you want -though I don't like how it forces you to manually add each image (I use a piece of freeware called WallSmart to vary my backgrounds).




-Sili

[Chip]

I'm using Forever Blue visual style & Theme, with blue lightning XP log (like Andrews Red version).. Very cool custom desktop. Best part is, i change whenever i want!




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