improve appearance of xp

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wot r the various softwares available which can change d luks of windows xp?? i have seen xp in ppl's cmptrs which dont luk anything like xp. they r very much cool in interface.

umm..
I have 768MB of RAM (soon shall be 1 GB) but still I prefer to use old classic style adjusted to have best performance.

Its not related to your qustion in any sense but just wanted to give my view / advice that always looks is not the right measure to measure the worth !

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thx 4 ur advice. i ve 512mb ram n i think its gud enough for xp?? but i ll really like to try these. n as far as i think they r not as resource hungry. they just chang the shell in windows

PS:

Now my linux is even without GUI !

Try crystal xp.
It is one of the best freeware themes available for windows XP. Find it out here.
Look out for the bricopacks they provide.
If u want to go for paid versions, then Windowblinds is best.
If u want to go for the look and feel of Vista go for the Vista transformation pack.

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thx mate
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but it is giving bad link

Here is the correct link: Crystal XP

It would be better to go for Crystal Xp than opting for Vista transformation pack, as it causes much problems.

1.) You can use various 3rd party visual styles to change the look of XP. Once I made one VS "VistaVG", which u can find here:

VistaVG1.0
VistaVG2.0

2.) U can also download various Iconpacks to change the XP default icons, just search at DeviantArt for them.

3.) U can use Tuneup Utilities to create ur own bootscreen.

4.) U can also download various Login screens from DeviantArt.

After following all these steps, u'll get completely different XP

Hey Vishal, you changed ur avatar? Last one was looking better. From that I got a vague figure of how u might be looking

lol

patch the uxtheme.dll using the neowin patch and visit the neowin forum for cool themes, u dont ned any software or anything, and it's the coolest, or I have made an installer which i will post, it will do everyhitng, and is legally free.

style xp for visual styles
tune up for bot screen, logon screen n much more

Kniwor said:
patch the uxtheme.dll using the neowin patch and visit the neowin forum for cool themes, u dont ned any software or anything, and it's the coolest, or I have made an installer which i will post, it will do everyhitng, and is legally free.

I also do the same thing. There're many Visual Themes that you can install for your XP. It completely changes the appearance of XP. I never mess around with the icons,bootup screen and things.

varunprabhakar said:
wot r the various softwares available which can change d luks of windows xp?? i have seen xp in ppl's cmptrs which dont luk anything like xp. they r very much cool in interface.

Here are some softwares that will change the look of your windows...

Download the following from that link:

WindowBlinds -> For changing the skin of XP.It is 60 day trial.
IconPackager -> For changing the icons of XP.It also trial for 60 days.
LogonStudio -> For changing the logon(or welcome screen) of XP.It is freeware.

Install it & enjoy.

and also download the additional skins,icons,logons for these softwares.

Link -> Here

I am sure Vishal has hacked versions of every file..be it Control panel, Explorer or Login screen.

Guys why not changed thread name to "Diff looks of windows XP"

form me i use

uxtheme patch

Resource hacker
also some tweaks
present in vishals threads

it changes look of my pc also no extra memory is used