Chalito Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I noticed alot of people are running different types of xpthemes, i was wondering you guys would link some good ones to get or a site that has a large selection of them. Thnx :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTYtsejam24 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 www.customize.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTYtsejam24 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 www.customize.org has a bunch i bleieve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I like HmmXP, and deviant art has loads more. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5514034/ Neowin's forums are also a good place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalito Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 well, i went to http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5514034/ and it looks kool but one question, how do i install this thing lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Install this: UXTheme Multi-Patcher v4.0 Then copy any theme you want to c:windowsresourcesthemes And then set the theme via the desktop propertys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalito Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 thnx alot man, tis theme is pretty awsome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 stardock windowblinds www.wincustomize.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://themes.belchfire.net/ is ok but thay are down Again just be carfull its hard to find ones that work with Firefox some of them maked the tabs just look so so so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I tried this back in the day but soon gave up on themes and such for one simple reason. They eat resources like a hog. I'm the guy who runs a solid color background to save memory. That said if anything has changed in that department I may be willing to give it a try, but then again I'd probably be more apt to install a complete shell replacement like lightstep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 I tried this back in the day but soon gave up on themes and such for one simple reason. They eat resources like a hog. I'm the guy who runs a solid color background to save memory.That said if anything has changed in that department I may be willing to give it a try, but then again I'd probably be more apt to install a complete shell replacement like lightstep. I run windowblinds and according to my task manager, it uses a whopping 2,300 K. Nothing compaired to ff (around 40,000K) or even zone alarm (4,000K). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalito Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 I wasn't really aware that the skins even used system resources. I haven't seen any notable difference in they way my pc preforms...yet lol. I had been looking for new scins for my windows box because i'm use to hving a crap load of different skins on my linux box. Thats why linux owns. It's just so easy to customize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 As far as I know, themes do not use resources as a program would. However in my case, I use a program call windowblinds that runs in the background and does use system resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 The theme hack I showed uses resources based on the theme in question. Since it uses no additional programs its fairly light, if you use a simple theme like hmmxp (just looks like a cleaner, more modern version of the standard windows interface). Even with the vista-esq themes its not that bad for resources. However, if you choose to use some massivly complex theme, with loads of effects, its never going to be that fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalito Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 right now i'm using the sentinal theme and it looks really kool, and it's not using to many resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLSS Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 i use stylexp but have it set so it turns off once the theme is loaded/ put on ... so this way it pretty much uses no recources. as for wot sort of theme : i am a big chaninja fan :D i used to use rc4 currently using a rc5 (also available for windows blinds), it even comes with different colors :P original is akira(red) i'm useing balloo(dark blue-purple-ish) u can also find him on diviantart : http://chaninja.deviantart.com/ mine : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drac Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 check out aston http://www.astonshell.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 The only time I ever have problems is when I mess with my boot screen ,I use theemxp to get theems installed and just use windows to switch my theems around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roo-boy Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 nice nice posts here, me lovin it! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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