Royale Vista - [dobee.deviantart.com]
I dont understand how people stand this horrible blue XP default skin, it makes me sick.

Jaok1m

Oh, Sentinel Beta. I really liked that one. Back in the days. Like, five years ago.

alcyone

It's amazing how often Lifehacker posts something I am thinking about ... how serendipitous.

subtle

I use a program called StyleSelector (google styleselector for vista). It enables me to change the system font and size as well as select themes without any patching. It creates a folder called "Styles" where you put your Vista styles and changing them is as easy as selecting and clicking apply.

Works perfect for me

Harrelson

I use Alduin. It's the most beautiful theme for XP I've ever used.

SmartyCZ

Although still by Microsoft. I am using "Royale Windows XP Theme" originally from New Zealand MS site, alternatively with "Royale Noir Theme for WinXP 1.47" [www.softpedia.com]

Junkan

@Harrelson: cant you already do that(change system fonts and sizes) For XP just right click the desktop>Properties>Appearance Tab>Advanced, there you can modify several other things as well

metalmarious

@Ph0Xy: Btw, the best theme for minimalistic people who love simple and thin themes is:

[lassekongo83.deviantart.com]

I've been using it on both my computers for a year now.

Ph0Xy

I like my windows task bar to be up top as well. it is closer to the menus so my mouse isnt constantly flying across the top and bottom

metalmarious

Great tutorial. I've been using patched uxtheme for almost a year now, and it's definitly the best and most performent way of changing the theme. Better than all those WindowsBlind and stuff.

I recommanded to everyone who wanted a custom theme.

Ph0Xy

One year after figuring all of this out, I'm still using this theme:

[www.askvg.com]

Because it's perfect.

Cornflakes

I really like "System 5" (found here: [andymorum.deviantart.com])With matching winamp skin (found here: [bigl523.deviantart.com]) and this wallpaper: [maariusz.deviantart.com]

iroQuai

@Marco:

Good point and thanks for the heads up ;)
Quote from the site:

"Our current beta release of VistaGlazz 1.1 (the version that will support SP1) seems to work quite well for everyone, so feel free to use it. This version should be able to fix 32bit SP1 systems that have been patched with VistaGlazz. Note that it still is in beta, so you might encounter a glitch."

Anyone using the beta that can comment on it's reliability?

Thanks,
Token

token1

I had nothing but issues with Vistaglazz on SP1 vista. Complete and utter nightmare. I will use default themes if It means avoiding such a fiasco again. My theme reverted to classic (horrible) and refused to change. There seemed to be registry files missing, screen turned a shade of red, desktop background couldn't be changed etc.etc.etc. I fixed it all with a system restore point, but NEVER again.

ste-knows-best

@subtle: happens to me once in a while too ^_^

metalmarious

@Jaok1m: you get used to it :),I was using the silver XP theme(with a thinner title bar) until this LH post now I am using Luna Element (Black-Compact), I cant stand the blue skin either

metalmarious

@Jason

You should mention that the latest stable VistaGlazz 1.0 is known to cause problems on Vista SP1 systems. The developer even warns not to use this version to patch a SP1 installation.

I tried it once on XP some time ago, and it killed my whole system... so you better warn the LH users.

Marco

Windowblinds does a more complete job of skinning everything. I'll stick with that.
Low memory use, more elements skinned, paid support, and tons of skins to choose from. [www.wincustomize.com]

zubaz25

@Junkan:

anudeglory

@Junkan:

I think the Zune theme but much prefer this [atomikscr.deviantart.com] take on it, which allow you to choose from 10 or so different colours!

anudeglory

[www.codegazer.com]

"VistaGlazz doesn't support SP1 yet" You can manually patch the DLLs, but check out the last post on this blog for Beta 3 which is supposed to support SP1:

[www.codegazer.com]

aaziz

I like a theme that offers maximum screen real estate and at the same time is light, mean, and daring.

JadeEmperor

@SmartyCZ: Yes, I agree completely. Link to it.

Avengelist

I keep going back to SlanXP 2.0, though at the moment I'm using lassekongo's newest theme, CleanGlass. His gallery has a wide selection of attractive minimalist themes.

Now, I'd love it if Lifehacker took the next step and posted a tutorial on creating and modifying custom themes ourselves. :)

Kaelri

My favorites are the Advance4 styles by sz1.

Also, don't forget that there's a nice semi-official XP theme that doesn't require uxtheme patching.

tomstrummer

Don't forget to tell people that Vista Glazz doesn't work on the 64-bit Vista SP1. I ruined my Vista 64 install and had to start over -- they had no work around for the problem it caused. Direct from the website:

"Vista SP1

VistaGlazz 1.0 (the one you can download from Download.com) does not support Vista SP1. VistaGlazz 1.0 is known to cause problems on Vista SP1 systems, so please do not use this version to patch your SP1 installation. Our current beta release of VistaGlazz 1.1 (the version that will support SP1) seems to work quite well for everyone, so feel free to use it. This version should be able to fix 32bit SP1 systems that have been patched with VistaGlazz. Note that it still is in beta, so you might encounter a glitch."

Note that there is nothing about the 64bit SP1.

anywho, just wanted you to know -- dont do it.

capnsouth

Anyone know of where to find a good tutorial on creating your own visual style or skin for XP?

A3sthetix

@Cornflakes: I use that one for my Vista rig.

derekhaltom

@subtle: And me..

Although, I might have been thinking about this because of the featured desktops. I'm not sure if that's serendipity or if maybe someone got a number of emails asking about it...

kalenoble

My favorite theme is Half Blood by Nevezen on DA
[nevezen.deviantart.com]

TehNomad

Normally, I would just say "install Linux and take half the time to do the same thing." But, at my summer clerkship, I was barred from using anything but my XP terminal, and I wish I had this guide back then.

elgilicious

@token1: Actually I am using the VistaGlazz Beta (Version 1.1 Beta 3) and have never had any problems at all. ^__^

VistaGlazz is absolutely terrific. ^__^

In fact I am SO happy with the crystal/glass effect on maximized app windows that I could not ever imagine having a Vista system without this installed. ^__^

Asian Angel

@A3sthetix: I don't know about tutorials, but you can use StyleBuilder for instance.
[www.tgtsoft.com]

Jaok1m

Thanks for the article Jason! ^__^

I have been using VistaGlazz (Version 1.1 Beta 3) without any problems for ~1.5 months now (Vista SP1 32 Bit). ^__^

I really love how it makes my maximized app windows look. ^__^ Lots of crystal/glass goodness. ^__^

I just installed and tried the Aero VG theme by Vishal Gupta. ^__^

It is looking VERY nice and lets me tweak it with just a touch of colour if I want. ^__^

Here is the link for his page:

[twirl.at]

Note: The theme is Vista only and requires that Aero is enabled...

Asian Angel

@aaziz:

Vista "DeskHack" is what you need to make your theme names display properly.
(If that download does not work: Vista Deskhack)

Also, "Aaziz, LIGHT!" =0P

thisisasignin

For Windows Classic looks with a touch of style, there's Watercolor Lite (google it & get it from the neowin forums) and XPMC by b0se. GelXP by Dobee is pretty good, too.

GrandStan

@Asian Angel:

I'm using Beta 3 too, and it works perfectly, with one caveat. The style theme has to be renamed with the same name as the default Aero theme or it will not work (aero.msstyle, I think).

jrobie

I can confirm Beta 3 works with Vista Home Premium 32 SP1. But why do I not get the style names in the list? It all comes up as "Windows Areo" and "Windows Basic"

aaziz

I would just like to show my support and gratitude to Rafael for providing simple, up to date theme patches.
Even though his patch files arent in a nice shiny UI, thus not giving his work a lot of exposure, he still remains ahead of the game.

thisisasignin

@jrobie:
Yes, the styles I use take care of not only the select color, but also the details pane, progress bar colors and the pane on top.

thisisasignin

@thisisasignin: Agreed. For manual patching his patch files are great =)

Jason Fitzpatrick

@jrobie: Wa...that is interesting... O__O

I never had to rename anything on my computer. All I had to do was just install and go...

I wonder if it has anything to do with personal/individual settings???

Asian Angel

@metalmarious: I started doing it several years ago when I realized how much time/motion was being wasted traveling between the top and bottom of the screen. At work the jerks have the bar locked, so I'm stuck with it at the bottom =/

Jason Fitzpatrick

I have one style issue - there doesn't seem to be any way to change the nasty teal "select" color in Vista. I've read that it's a png within the msstyle file. Has anyone found a way around this?

jrobie

My current visual style is Razor 1.2, which I keep going back to.
But I think I'll take a look at Pristine OS too.

Nabeel

argg, my C:\Windows\Resources\Themes directory is write-protected at work!

LesPaulLvr5

I've always wondered why we have to still hack the uxtheme dll and why Microsoft hasn't just opened it up altogether. Here they've created the ability to have custom styles, but locked it down to only signed ones - how many official Microsoft sanctioned themes other than the included ones are out there? XP is almost EOL'ed, and how many official third party themes have been released?

Meanwhile there's a whole community dedicated to hacking uxtheme and providing good themes and styles. What gives?

edmicman

@tomstrummer: Your links are broken. The "semi-official XP theme" is Royal Noir and can be found here [www.instructables.com]

bubkes

By luck, I had just asked a question on the "ask-your-fellow-readers-anything" thread. I tried a few things, but they didn't work, so I'll try it here:
I recently used NLite to slim down windows XP for my laptop. I removed the Luna theme and used Windows classic to help speed it up a little. I got to wanting a little eye candy, so I decided to make a separate account that I would use when I wanted to play around and make it pretty. I patched my xtheme.dll so I could use 3rd party themes. When I tried installing a few, none of them worked. Did NLite take something out that made those themes work? Another poster suggested start>run>services.msc and look for the Themes service to make sure that it was enabled. The theme service was turned on, but still no luck. The luna theme is still in the theme folder, just can't see it in the theme selector.

minealone6

Thanks for the great article!

ddb123

What theme do you use Jason?

Nutzz

I was wondering why this hadn't been done, so hooray!

When I patched my Vista, vistaglazz was still pretty buggy, so I did it myself. Worked like a charm, and I feel much more "1337", as some put it.

The main pity with vista, however, is there are far fewer good styles :(

Phoshi

@zubaz25: I find on systems that are low on memory or have slower hard drives or processors, WindowBlinds slows me down. It has also run into conflicts on my PCs with other processes that UXtheme doesn't.

longbourne

@Zya: Did you create a Restore Point before installing VistaGlazz?

If you did not, you could still check to see what the most recent Restore Point is. That might help fix the problem...especially if it is recent.

Hope this helps!

Asian Angel

@Zya:
ps. I neglected to add that now the windows theme is 'broken' and is grey and patchy. Sure to be noticed by IT soon. It also appears to lag at start up - because it can't load themes, I assume.

Zya

I need some help!
I tried to run VistaGlazz on my work laptop.
It has now apparntely corrupted the Vista Theme system files - as even though I've tried unpatching with VistaGlazz, it won't open up the themes with the error message:
"Windows host process (Rundll32) has stopped working"

Can anyone help? It's a work laptop and now I'm stressed!

Zya

This is one thing I love about using Ubuntu. Want to install a theme? Then just do it! No fiddling around with patches.

the_boffin

One of my favourite sources for themes has been Interfacelift.com. They also have wallpapers, but for windows themes, check out [interfacelift.com]

My favourite was mindwood, really classy wood look.

djnrempel

VistaGlazz seems to be down for me as well.

token1

@Zya: Will do, and I'm really sorry for your troubles! Glad you got it fixed.

Gina Trapani

@capnsouth: I'm using Vista GlazzBeta3 1.1.2.0 on Vista64 sp1 and it's fine.
Been running it for weeks without a problem at all.

ParJoe

If you did install with Vista SP1, just do a system restore...it should have created a restore point right before you installed the program, so you'll be back good to go, then download the beta I guess. Sure was annoying to find this out after I installed...before those comments started showing up. Oh, did we crash the codegazer website?

masterthundar

confirmed here too - of course I've tried system restore without success on two restore points and can't connect to the VistaGlazz website to get 1.1b3 - shouldn't have been so quick to tamper with vista, I suppose.

Really unhappy that the vistaglazz page doesn't load at all though.

will try going back further in time for a system restore.

Christopher

@LesPaulLvr5: Wou actually don't need to put the .msstyle in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes. You can put it anywhere, I think, probably a good idea to keep in a folder you have read/write access to. The catch is that the style won't show up in the "Windows and Buttons" list in the "Appearance" tab of the "Display properties". No big deal though - just double click on the .msstyles file and save the theme in the Themes tab of "Display Properties".

HTH

nsxstorm

I can confirm the problems Vistaglazz is giving SP1 users! LH, please consider adding a blurb in your article for people (sadly like me) who are so excited to try out themes that they don't read the comments!

Zya

I obviously panicked too quickly, a system restore did the trick.

I should have read the comments too - I just realised I'm on SP1 :/

Zya

@djnrempel: In general I think that all this customizing stuff is really just a waste of time. However, these were almost good enough to make me change my mind.

Ryan Fisher

@Zya:

worked fine for me - fixed the horrible mess that v1.0 made.

Christopher

here's a link that works - downloaded from the mirror:

[www.winmatrix.com]

Christopher

If anyone could confirm if the SP1 beta 3 file works, that would be great! :)

Zya

vistaglazz site is definitely down - found the SP1 beta 3 file from a mirror. will post link as soon as I find it again (already reabooted since finding it)

Fixed everything

Christopher

VistaGlazz is down. It must be a sign from above not to tinker with Vista's themes.

Funnily enough, this was one of the rare occasions that I've booted Vista. I dual boot with Ubuntu. No problems with themes there.

gregbzh

Worth pointing out that XP Service Pack 3 broke the SP2 patches. The original UXTheme MultiPatcher (to my knowledge) hasn't been updated.

SP3 Patching Instructions - [www.winmatrix.com]

Dustin Meadows

@Kaelri: I ♥ lassekongo's themes. I've used SlanXP3.0 since its release, though I'm using one of the other minimal ones for the EEE.

Dustin Meadows

VistaGlazz has come under the Lifehacker effect sadly.

Mister Cow Pnoy

@Christopher:

Mirror gives me a 283k file that crashes upon executing.
Is 283k the correct size?

token1

@Harrelson: but the thing is, thats merely a program running over windows maskign everything, whereas this way it makes windows load the image files directly and uses less RAM.

Mister Cow Pnoy

Had my uxtheme patched since a long time. But would like to thank everyone for posting links to some awesome themes.

Bez

@alcyone:

Thank god for replying to comments, because I need to get this comment seen.

This is the greatest XP theme you will see in your life.
[zrageburn.deviantart.com]

All the other ones feel clunky.

bana

My personal favorite visual style for Windows XP is Watercolor Emico by Gelosea. Here is a link to the black version: [gelosea.deviantart.com]

nsxstorm

...ooppss but I'm using the Woodwork theme!

frankell

for 9 great XPthemes I really recommend you have a look here:
[mindlandgraphics.com]
(my preferred are M04 brown + Mindwood)

frankell

@Christopher: The mirror seems to be down for me as well as the original site.

startswithone1

Man, I am too old school. I still use Desktop Architect [themeworld.com] and look for content on on the same site (themeworld.com) Although it hasn't been updated in a while. Oh, and my favorite theme is the Royal Remix, and my own Homestar Runner theme ([www.themeworld.com]) that I created with Desktop Architect and Homestar Runner's online content.

nivek5

@SmartyCZ: Wonderful, thank you both.

libertao

Well Lifehacker failed to mention that if you are not somewhat computer savy, DONT DO THIS. You are making registry changes that are not easily reversed. There actually has already been a article on this "A transparent Vista"

ChrisMichael

Thank you! I've been looking for a while for a tutorial for this.

weirdalfan27

Anyone got the uxtheme pach working on WinXP SP3?

halebale

@Ph0Xy: Thank you !!

tartooob

@SmartyCZ: Amazing theme ! love the simplicity in it.

tartooob

CNet has the original VistaGlazz file - give it a search and you should find it no problems!

For anyone needing the VistaGlazz for SP1, while the mirror is down - I'm happy to email it out if you're desperate to have it ASAP! ;) Let me know!

Zya

Thank you so much to the person who reccomended "Alduin"

Maginificent.

leifer

Hey, is there anything like doing this for Macinstosh visual styles, short of paying real money?

jccarr117

nice, I've been waiting for a one like this, thanks

damiththa

@Junkan: same here! love that theme, simple an a bit glowy

pnikkosis

@iroQuai: dude that sucks so bad, how can u use that?

pnikkosis

@bana:

+1!!!!! AWESOME!!! this is my new theme, best simple black i've seen in a long time

Nice!!!

eaglestrike7339

@pnikkosis: Hmm I think it's really a matter of personal preferences...

I really like this style! The windows look a lot like the classic windows theme, but then better. I also like the blue taskbar, it's nice and calm.

BTW, I'm using the "Plastic" color sceme, which can be seen in the display properties window on the screenshow at deviantart. Looks a lot better than the standard one.

But you can think it sucks, no problem. There are a lot of themes around that I really do not like which other people do like. For example, I do not like either of the three themes posted above. Luna is way to plastic and large, looks to much like the windows xp theme. Sentinel is the worst of all, looks fake and chaotic to me. The best of the three is prestine, although I do not like the way the letters in an inactive window look like. You can hardly read them anymore! But that's just A small minor.. I could use that one, but I prefer the theme I posted before. Although not with the wallpaper that comes with it - that one is aweful!

iroQuai

what skin is he using in the first xp screenshot? Thanks

darshil

I'm quite surprised this article has just been posted.

Redeemer3

I am incredibly, amazingly, excitedly, scientifically, amazed. The tutorial itself was a little light but I still figured it out. Now, my theme is intense! Off of DeviantArt, I downloaded the NeoGenIx theme [dobee.deviantart.com] Follow that link and if it doesn't work, go to the DeviantArt home page and and search NeoGenIx. The one I used was the 12th one from top of the list. Don't forget that you have to install Style XP in order for most of these to work. Just Google the name and when you get to the TGTSoft download page, choose the fourth and last one down that is not a free trial version. Combining these two programs surely has brightened my month and could easily brighten yours.

haydenphb

@halebale:

It worked for me with no problems.

pezdaddy

@SmartyCZ: I don't think their is one of her VS's I don't like, all I use anymore!

PyreBorn

@zubaz25:

So with WindowBlinds, do you set Windows to "Basic" instead of "Aero"? I'd hate to give all the cycles and memory for both as surely WindowBlinds handles what Aero does?

jsmorley

WindowBlinds does it all for you.
I've been using it for years, no need to get this complicated.

hardskapunk

@jccarr117: I'm not the right person to advise you because i don't own a mac but the ones i know are:

skinning > ShapeShifter US $20.00 but skins everything (however it seems that OS X 10.5.x is currently not supported).

creating/editing > ThemePark free

themes > check Stefanks's Deviantart Gallery
and here

on Windows for my minimalistic tastes i only use:
areao4.2 by *heylove which you can see here
(it's the 1st one listed)

code3

@Redeemer3: I'm surprised, too, but you have to take into the account that Lifehacker was always about getting your OS and programs running fast and smoothly and showing you all the shortcuts and tricks that power-users like to use with no focus on eye candy at all. Seems they're running out of the former, so they focus more frequently now on the latter.

Also, if you only address tech and power users you're missing out on a huge audience that doesn't share those interests, but wants their computers all shiny and blinged out no matter what. If Lifehacker wants to explain to them how to do it in an easier-to-grasp way than some other websites do, more power to them (though I prefer tech and power-user articles myself). Maybe that's how the power users of tomorrow are born - by starting out with the simpler posts on Lifehacker today. :)

emnem

@hardskapunk: Why would you want to use Windows Blinds when this is free and doesn't use any extra resources?

2-7offsuit

I doubt anyone is going to read this far in the comments, but Ashen II [nevezen.deviantart.com] is my favorite theme. It's super clean. It seems like a lot of work went into it. Plus there's even a Launchy skin!

2-7offsuit

here's zune final by the way.

qrius

I use this method. Great job Jason - well documented.

I use the Zune Final visual style.

qrius

Does anyone noticed a performance hit when running a 3rd party theme, not released by MS? if so, how much of a hit? with what hardware?

theycallmetish

That Luna Element one is very nice. I've been using 'Media Center Style' for ages but that's finally persuaded me to ditch it.

moloko

I go to customize.org to download most of my themes. My favorite is AXONKOLOR: http://customize.org/xpthemes/48889

SergioCharon

@Dustin Meadows: read the article again.. there's a screen shot of UXtheme Patcher that clearly states it works with Sp3.

KhaiJB

@qrius: How are you using it? The author says it isn't available for download yet.

got no clutch? You ain't much.

@iroQuai: Looks like gnome on Linux. Older gnome. The winamp skin looks like xmms from Linux. Yeah, cool, but more so if you're in the know.

xizdaqrian

@Jaok1m: Amen, brother! The FIRST thing I do when installing or re-installing XP is to patch uxtheme and change the VS. I have used classic windows look before rather than the XP default luna ugliness.

xizdaqrian

can anyone identify the skin in the screenshot (the xp one) Thanks

darshil

[customize.org]
Has all the visual styles, skins, and instructions I've ever needed.

lightningbrigade

is there any way to do this for one user in Vista and not the others?

robmcbell

@halebale: I'm stuck with you. I get the error:
Windows NT Setup files detected...
UXTheme Multi-patcher v6.0 has detected that there's any Windows NT setup file in C:\WINDOWS\i386
It's not recommend you to continue with this. Please eject your Windows NT CD or move that folder to somewhere else.

So...I'm going to try moving that folder. I'll let you know how it turns out...if my computer doesn't blow up.

redbeardjim

@haydenphb: This is what did it for me, thanks!
(I have XP SP3, and nothing else seemed to work)

redbeardjim

@KhaiJB: And the screenshot directly below the first one does not include SP3...so I'm not gonna go off the screen shots.

Anyone HELPFUL out there who knows what's going on? I've tried the winmatrix method 1 for patching my uxtheme.dll, but so far nothing seems to work.

redbeardjim

@2-7offsuit: Damn that looks nice, I want a Vista version :(

jackwooly

well for starters on making your own theme, you can copy one of the themes your not using and use 'resource hacker' to edit the images and information. remember the color ff00ff is transparent. windowsblinds is not legally free however there is an alternative that doesnt require messing with system files and risking your system. its called styler, when you get a theme just drag and drop the zip/rar file to the theme window where the theme list is. once its installed right click for more options on it and go about your mary way. styler also works perfectly with windows xp with no service packs. NOTE: do not download themes that have installers, you dont need installers and they often come with 'packaged software' resource hacker: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ styler: http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.551-styler-1-401.html

CarynDawh

Does anyone know where to get a really old school retro theme? I've been dreaming of a black background with green letters for everything in XP, but haven't come across anything yet.

TildenAethalides

@SmartyCZ:
Ooh, I like it. Just swapped it in. Haven't bothered to theme my XP in forever (good old classic, ahhhh) - but this time I had a reason :D

tali3sin

For those of you wishing to re-skin your XP installation from an IT-Lockdown situation, I've managed to replace the uxtheme.dll once by booting to Safe Mode, and once when that didn't work, by booting to a USB-stick riding Linux distro that had the power to read/write NTFS/FAT32/Whatever Windows Filesystem It Was.

Admittedly, the latter method is kind of extreme if you don't carry such a thing around with you all the time - but I seriously hate that default blue XP style.

tali3sin

@the_boffin: Ah, that sounds like one of the things I *used* to love about Ubuntu.

Now that I've moved up to Hardy, I can't change themes. No reason why, as far as my vaguely linux-inexperienced eyes can tell, clicking the buttons simply has no effect.

Not only that, when I switch on "desktop effects/Compiz-Fusion" so that I can work with my desktop in a more intuitive fashion, the way I've gotten used to... The screen randomly crashes out into a black/white/grey fuzz, and doesn't come back unless I hardware reboot.

I still use my Ubuntu. But it doesn't *always* "just do it", unfortunately - and to be honest, I put it down to my lack of experience, but it's proving much harder to rectify the problem than most of the issues I get with XP :-(

Whoa. Random tangent there.

tali3sin

I already used this method and I agree it's one of the best. But one concern I would want to raise is about the site Themexp.org
According to McAfee Site Advisor its rated red because of 2957 red downloads out of 3128 downloads. Even when I clicked a preview of an image it required downloading a file named 78.exe

Here is McAfee Site Advisor link.
[www.siteadvisor.com]

dragonskin

I turn off all effects and themes and run all of my systems for optimal performance. I like to squeeze every MHZ and MB out of my systems!

BrookeHizee

What about x64 people? :(

JacintaAgamedes

@Jason Fitzpatrick : Has'nt this changed with XP SP3 ? I thought the SP3 replaced the file again and an other patch tool was needed. zjo

XandraJellyfish

Does anyone have the original files for windows Vista ultimate? I'm pretty sure the SP1 warning wasn't on here when I first read this article, and well, my theming isn't going quite so well after using vistaglazz 1

trstn

@theycallmetish:

I've been running a few new themes for the past few days and havn't noticed any drop off in performance.

st4tkeric

@got no clutch? You ain't much.: hm, maybe i had the wrong link? sorry! just google 'zune final'. there are a few version around, which is why this can be confusing I think. sorry about the wrong link.

qrius

i use uxtheme and most of my VS come from deviantart and customize.org.

+greenpeace+

@2-7offsuit: I'm reading! :)

magnoliasouth

Alduin is AMAZING

pyxzer

When I run the patch program (on XP), I get this message:

"UXTheme Multi-Patcher v6.0 has detected that there's any Windows NT setup file in C:\Windows\i386
It's not recommended you to continue with this. Please eject your Windows NT CD or move that folder to somewhere else. Press OK to exit UXTheme Multi-Patcher v6.0."

(The grammar errors are straight from the message on my screen.)

saintseminole

It keeps asking me to insert my SP3 CD...what if I don't have one?

ヨシダさん 25

I finally got the .dll file to change, and installed the themes, but nothing happened other than my background disappeared...

saintseminole

@SmartyCZ: Thanks.
I especially liked the illuminating effects while hovering the mouse in task bar.

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