Moving from XP to Win7

PorkPieCat · 10 May 2012 at 00:06

never had to use win7 until now! but with a whole system upgrade, it's time for me to learn win7. something i haven't gotten my finger on yet - with xp, i customized the login screen and themes using things like msstyles and whatnot. i've tried to find the same styles and themes i use in xp for win7, but there seem to be no conversions. i'm very fond of a theme called opusOSX.

anyway to cut it short, is there any way to use the xp msstyles theme on windows 7? or will i have to look for a new theme :L

thanks~

Essexraptor · 10 May 2012 at 00:16

Google is normally your friend with these sorts of prolems.. I found this

http://windows7themes.net/using-custom-msstyles-themes-on-windows-7.html

PorkPieCat · 10 May 2012 at 08:09

i did google

. apparently win7 uses msstyles files too but they're a different structure? so i assumed that xp ones wouldn't work without some kind of workaround. haven't really seen anything about that though...

thanks anyway

Essexraptor · 10 May 2012 at 11:00

Yup... a little deeper reading suggests that you'll have to create a new msstyle theme and won't be able to migrate your current theme over from XP.

PorkPieCat · 10 May 2012 at 11:31

rawr. thought that might be the case; thanks for the confirmation