Get The Looks OF Longhorn, Thru Win XP

Fr3@k3r

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• Sep 26, 2005

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http://www.soft32.com/download_3720.html

now if you dont feel comfortable with this kinda stuff than dont do it..

Right now im currently using this as my default and havent had 1 problem, no spyware, adware, virus's, or hidden stuff just pure longhorn

what it will do ..

It will install the following of longhorn:

Sidebar, theme, fonts, boot screen, logon screen and some other stuff..

 

Trombe

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• Sep 26, 2005

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What about bsod?

 

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Trombe said:

What about bsod?

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like i said..... no problem period for the past 4 days straight usage ...

and the bsod's if you mean looks... well i wouldnt know... havent had one in the past 5 months

 

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• Sep 26, 2005

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Ram usage? I think I'll try this out.

I have a friend who's uncle works for M$ (and I get tons of cheap software), and I seem to vaguely remember him warning me against this...

 

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It appears it takes no more ram than XP normaly would, plus the side bar (optional). That adds about 22mb.

EDIT: The desktop look, with regular XP start menu, but all other Vista "pretties" enabled. Using Aero Style theme, color scheme = Mystic.

http://home.earthlink.net/~sueperdue/XP Vista.JPG

 

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MRD

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The only good part of Vista, without all the drawbacks, and free too. Good find.

 

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your welcome,

came across it while searching for more shells... thought it was good enough

 

Trombe

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• Sep 27, 2005

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Well I'm now using it and will say that I love it, minus two things:

The new shortcut "symbol" is a big ugly square and that nice clock/ notepad/ bookmark thing won't dock to my secondary montitor.

 

kayson

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• Sep 27, 2005

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Sounds interesting. I'm downloading right now

 

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kayson said:

Sounds interesting. I'm downloading right now

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Same here, My XP could use a facelift.

 

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• Sep 27, 2005

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Ya I am using something similar (Vista theme) and it looks great.

 

kayson

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This guy did a pretty decent job. Aero style with mystic colors rocks. Definitely my favorite. The text is a bit fuzzy (i changed it to vista's default to get the whole chance). The icons could be better, but its a nice change from default winxp. Nice find!

 

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kayson said:

This guy did a pretty decent job. Aero style with mystic colors rocks. Definitely my favorite. The text is a bit fuzzy (i changed it to vista's default to get the whole chance). The icons could be better, but its a nice change from default winxp. Nice find!

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There are other theme patches like the one I am using which lack the clock but have much better icons.

 

kayson

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Sentential said:

There are other theme patches like the one I am using which lack the clock but have much better icons.

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Linkage please!

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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i didnt notice the clock... has it changed?

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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Yuriman said:

It appears it takes no more ram than XP normaly would, plus the side bar (optional). That adds about 22mb.

EDIT: The desktop look, with regular XP start menu, but all other Vista "pretties" enabled. Using Aero Style theme, color scheme = Mystic.

http://home.earthlink.net/~sueperdue/XP Vista.JPG

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i noticed u have the post-it like icons on ur desktop icons. do you know what they are for? and how to get rid? otherwise excellent skin.

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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[SaS]hornet said:

i noticed u have the post-it like icons on ur desktop icons. do you know what they are for? and how to get rid? otherwise excellent skin.

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Those are the ugly arse shortcut symbols. The trashbin is the only thing that dosen't have one

 

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damn. that sucks. does anyone know how to get rid of them?

 

kayson

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Windows Powertools: TweakUI
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Lots of great features. Under the explorer menu on the left, go to shortcuts. The top is shortcut overlay. Change that to none and it goes poof!

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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I've been using that pack for awhile, it isn't exactly the latest news around. Its a good pack. Needs updating to Vista type stuff though now, it just based on things prior to Vista Beta's