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knowlesy said:
i ment the skin eg your taskbar
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that isnt my task bar, my task bar is on the right side of the screen with auto-hide on.
its a yahoo widget called informant, u can change the info displayed on it and where it is displayed. e.g. i added my name in, and i can move the clock to where i want it to be on the bar.
 
RandomTom said:
Bloody hell those icons on the top bar are huge!!! :eek: Especially on a monitor of that resolution! Nice skin and wallpaper though. :)
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I think they're just below 192 size, but I've change them now due to the skin, but still get bigger to 192 when I click them or put my mouse over.



When Selected I have little drop down menus for each thingy.

 
hmmm what software do i need for that? see people bouncing words like styler and windows binds about. now it looks like windows blinds is their version of style xp (am i right?) but er yeah, people talking about styler too -> can I buy a clue please?
How easy is it to take off once its been applied?

Thanks,
Mr. n00b :P
 
Goksly said:
hmmm what software do i need for that? see people bouncing words like styler and windows binds about. now it looks like windows blinds is their version of style xp (am i right?) but er yeah, people talking about styler too -> can I buy a clue please?
How easy is it to take off once its been applied?

Thanks,
Mr. n00b :P
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Windowblinds 5 takes over from XP's GUI I suppose. Make sure you disable themes in the services if you use WindoBlinds 5 as there is no point having XP themes active.

Styler is many things, but mainly can be used with Windowblinds to change the toolbars in Windows Xp. This can be done via Windowblinds, but it's much better via Styler and the skinner will always provide a Styler setup with his window blinds skin if he intends for there to be a great toolbar thing. For me styler takes u about 1MB Ram.

You can disabled WindowBlinds and Styler by simply selecting "quit" or "unload" on their icons near the clock on the taskbar...Very easy to uninstall just like you do with a standard piece of software. I also have BricoPack for some extra icons that can't be changed though Icon Packager like the icons in my control panel look more Vista like, and I get my other icons you see on my menu from places like Deviant Art and then just simply change *** icon by right clicking it and going to the change icon part of the window. Also use many icons from many differnet Deviant Art submissions for my Dock. So i browse through the icon area and download various packs then I just delete the individual icons I dont want and put them in new an d more organsied folders with the icons I keep and then use in my GUI :D

I already think icons that are out there are already better than the ones we will get in Vista :(
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Trust me, it's all very easy once you know what you need :D

So...

GUI: WindowBlinds 5
Toolbars: Styler - Can be done basically within WindowBlinds, but should a artist with his skin provide a styler thing then.
Dock: I use Object Dock
Icons: From Deviant Art
Wallpaper: Deviant Art

That's pretty much it. As I said, once you know where to find things and once you know what you want...it's so easy :D
 
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Conrad11 said:
An alternative to Windows Blinds, that doesn't use any extra resources (Windows Blinds does) is:

UX Theme Patch

This uses MSStyles which loads of people use....and these can be found on DeviantArt too.
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Yes, but you don't get transparancy with that ;) and the start menus all look way too Xpish.
 
Atomic said:
Yes, but you don't get transparancy with that ;) and the start menus all look way too Xpish.
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Well download one that isn't :rolleyes:

Goksly said:
Atomic I really like that Vista theme.... is that actually Vista or is it a styleXP thing? A link etc would be grannnnnnnnnnnd! :)
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It's called Orion Glass.

Atomic said:
I think they're just below 192 size, but I've change them now due to the skin, but still get bigger to 192 when I click them or put my mouse over.

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Nice wallpaper. Don't mind giving a link do you?? :D
 
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