WinXp themes

[Xaneden]

Lol, thanks.

[Nick F]

The best place to look at is www.wincustomize.com its got everything you will ever need there!

[Xaneden]

How do you go about editing an existing theme guys, not just like changing the colour of the toolbar etc, I mean adding images and stylising the way the window layout looks.

[Clstrphbc_donut]

i always use Artimis.

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[Xaneden]

Ok, thanks for the suggestion Clstrphbc_donut, I'll try that out. I've had a go with some other theme editors, but they really lack the features that I want.

[mark22]

I quite like the aero theme from this

http://www.deviantart.com/view/9380004/

[shiato storm]

so...thats what they think longhorn will look like then?

[Cuffz]

Windows Max is the only one I'll try so far.

[Xaneden]

Well, at the moment I guess it'll look a bit like the Windows 2003. But I'd imagine it'll get its own theme at a later date.

I actually have a .iso of Longhorn Beta 4074, but I can't burn to DVD for some reason... Bloody laptop!

[Daymonkey]

i amusing that longhorn style at the moment with the thin toolbar looks luuuuurvely:

[Xaneden]

Very stylish.

I would prefer an ultra-modern look to the next Windows, instead of happy family colours like blue and green. Ok, they included silver in XP, but it looked ****e, and looked even more like an afterthought..

Also, I think they should update the theming process. I'm not sure about you, but when I install a 3rd party theme sometimes, the theme is in the 'buttons' bit, and not where you would normally select a theme. Maybe if Microsoft updated their system of theming, this wouldn't happen. Such as, when you apply a theme, a greyed out settings area appears, which lets you then change settings.

Simple little change, but a worthwhile one.

[directhex]

you're not MEANT to install third party themes - just digitally signed ones

[Xaneden]

I know, but they know people do it anyway, so surely giving some support for it, even if officially they don't like it, would save them face?

Even just for the official ones, it'd make sense to do it the way I've mentioned above. It would be much easier.

[ikonia]

is there a place other than MS plus to get the themes?

[directhex]

is there a place other than MS plus to get the themes?

there are one or two officially tagged licensed themes

but for the most part, no

[ikonia]

what a great product from MS then

USe XP and its themes....but we have only released two