Desktop (and XP Theme) thread

[Raz316]

i cant get those TV listings to work :/

My desktop

[Apex]

[ajbrun]

i cant get those TV listings to work :/

My desktop

I did a post about a week ago with "UKTV" in the title. Search for that, then you'll find how to get the TV listings to work.

That thread shows how to get everything BUT BBC 1 + 2 working - to get them to work, just edit the confit file, and you see that BBC 1 is called something like "BBC 1 South" or something. Simply change that to "BBC 1". Do the same for BBC 2 and it should work.

[Makaveli]

mine

[ajbrun]

How come whenevr I choose another theme using style XP or equivilant, my desktop still looks pants. But when you lot post screenies, you all have nice looking desktops. That's why mine is still windows default - even the wallpaper!

Any tips would be useful.

[Makaveli]

How come whenevr I choose another theme using style XP or equivilant, my desktop still looks pants. But when you lot post screenies, you all have nice looking desktops. That's why mine is still windows default - even the wallpaper!

Any tips would be useful.

try this theme . just the default one but jazzed up abit. tidy up your desktop and find a unique wallpaper. maybe if you have sum lights in your case, then match your wallpaper with your colour sceme

[Kezzer]

try this theme . just the default one but jazzed up abit. tidy up your desktop and find a unique wallpaper. maybe if you have sum lights in your case, then match your wallpaper with your colour sceme

That's such bs. I use that theme, it's available on the microsoft website, it's not a leak at all. It was designed for media centre and can be happily used across many different microsoft OS's.

[ice]

My simple desktop.



Click for 800x600 resized version.

[Tarffie]

There was a big hoo-haa over it last year though. I'm not sure on the specifics but it was never officially released as a theme and soom leet blokes ended up making it into a theme that could be used on normal XP and MS didn't like it.

Of course that story could be made up but I know that all mention of the theme and how to get it was banned from Neowin.net was MS wasn't happy about something.

i <3 dual monitors tbh



ultramon is a bit cack like but it does le job

[Makaveli]

That's such bs. I use that theme, it's available on the microsoft website, it's not a leak at all. It was designed for media centre and can be happily used across many different microsoft OS's.

well sum1 posted it on kustom forums so dont blame me and thats were i got it.

[ajbrun]

Another problem I'm having is this. When I download a style os something, and double click the exe file, it sometimes says "we have wrapped our own advertsing software in with the files for this product. By installing this, you'll be installing our files too". Or something to that effect. Basically, I see that as adware. I don't like adware, therefore I don't install. If someone could direct me to a site that does NOT does this, I'd be most chuffed.

Thanks

[tommylittleboy@]

Heres my XP setup



And my tiger setup

[shiato storm]

styleXP is an option, or the slightly harder method which is entirely free & takes 0 bytes of space on your disks is the following:

unzip this for XP without SP1 or this for XP with SP1 to a temporary folder.
rename uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.new
move it to c:\windows\system32
reboot into the recovery console (boot the windows install cd, eventually you can press r to go itno the console)
type

cd system32
copy uxtheme.dll uxtheme.old
copy uxtheme.new uxtheme.dll
copy uxtheme.dll dllcache
exit

you can now extract skins to c:\windows\resources\themes and actuvate them using the inbuilt windows xp skin changer (where you change Classic or Luna theme) in the display control panel

.THEME files belong in \resources\themes and dictate a number of settings such as what skin to load, what icons & sounds & wallpaper to use, etc
skinname.MSSTYLES lives in \resources\themes\skinname - and skins can't be reached unless they meet this directory structure.

there you go, Xp skin 101. have fun, and try not to break anything

is there one like this for SP2 at all? I would like to change the (rather lame) theme I have - an M$ standard one - to a more stylish, smooth one...
this method, thanks to hex, looks fairly simple that even I could do it!

p.s. littletommyboy - what are those themes called?

[noah]

you can find the newer patch here, i had a few problems with it, but when you install it make sure you wait for it to give you a dialogue box at the end and it works fine. then just click on the msstyles file and it'll load and you can change them in the appearences tab under properties.

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.p...ht=uxtheme.dll

theres the tread where a few guys helped me with it a couple of months ago.

good luck

edit: the themes above are the microsoft media centre theme and the safari theme, tho a good alternative is winpanther cos then you get a flag not an apple as a start button and you can have a compact start menu.

[shiato storm]

is that media centre one available at M$'s website...for free?

[Howard]

Want me to upload the Media Center one Shiato?