XP Themes [Merged]

Basil_Fawlty

Quincy wrote:

Mmm it does Ive just tried, Mind you XP Powertoys from Microsoft can do what your after.


Or just Right Click the desktop, Under Themes choose windows XP theme then change your wallpaper (looks a bit naff), I forgot that XP wont let you change individual items but Classic style will.

I'm getting somewhere with the text colours in the active bars but the actual title bar seems to be an unchangeable image?? How did you change that?

Also I have got powertoys - but I can't remember how to access those settings

Quincy_3

Ok mate what colour toolbars were you looking for?

Quincy_3

spaceage wrote:

the taskbar looks that pale blue though _pale_ butotherwise ok - i'll give it a go if no joy with changing colours

Lol, thats why I deleted that post, what colour you after?

Basil_Fawlty

Quincy wrote:

Ok mate what colour toolbars were you looking for?

preferably something black - not this pale blue!! It just doesn't change it when I alter the colours - the preview box windows change colour to black but after ok and apply they just remaint he same. the only thing that changes is the text colour _pale_

Quincy_3

Ok right click this piccy I did and save as Toolbar101.bmp

Piccy removed
Now if you have XP Powertoys do this,

Start, All Programs, Powertoys for XP, TweakUI, Click on Internet Explorer,
and under that click Toolbar Background and put a tick in each box
and then click on change and then locate the saved bmp piccy and use that.

Basil_Fawlty

Quincy wrote:

Ok right click this piccy I did and save as Toolbar101.bmp



Sorry about the length to other folk.

Now if you have XP Powertoys do this,

Start, All Programs, Powertoys for XP, TweakUI, Click on Internet Explorer,
and under that click Toolbar Background and put a tick in each box
and then click on change and then locate the saved bmp piccy and use that.

Brilliant! One problem though - my PowerToys menu only has a readme file in it :doh: so I'll get downloading that again methinks - no idea what happened there

Quincy_3

This is the one you need.

Will start a download.

Basil_Fawlty

I've found the shell file with the black and silver options added :cool:

Could you tell me where I should copy the files to??

I've got a Folder called "Vista XP" - inside are three folders, called: Fonts, Shell, Wallpapers... and one VistaXP.msstyles. Where exactly do I copy these to so I can get the black effect??

Quincy_3

spaceage wrote:

I've found the shell file with the black and silver options added :cool:

Could you tell me where I should copy the files to??

I've got a Folder called "Vista XP" - inside are three folders, called: Fonts, Shell, Wallpapers... and one VistaXP.msstyles. Where exactly do I copy these to so I can get the black effect??

Post the link of where you got it from :beer:

Basil_Fawlty

http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.cat.3.htm

6th down the list, author snakeuk and it's called Vista XP - size 3.39MB :beer:

Sorry i should have included that