Wheres that 70mb Vista Theme for XP ?

Yebraw · 1 Apr 2006 at 12:12

Thanks everyone, its working a treat... and a good excuse to get another 1gb of ram

Andyt_uk · 1 Apr 2006 at 12:41

just tried it and too get it smooth you need the highest settings and then it seems to lag a little. Takes its time to switch between apps/windows and this is running on a a64 3500 with 2gb ram.

Looks quite nice tho, but i think i'll wait for the real thing.

leezer3 · 1 Apr 2006 at 12:52

Andyt_uk said:
just tried it and too get it smooth you need the highest settings and then it seems to lag a little. Takes its time to switch between apps/windows and this is running on a a64 3500 with 2gb ram.

Looks quite nice tho, but i think i'll wait for the real thing.

No lag whatsoever here on the much lower specced lappy-
Centrino 1.4ghz
32mb Mobility Radeon 9000
512mb RAM

Summats not right with your install, have you tried defragging etc?
Object dock will also take quite a bit of power, try disabling that.

-Leezer-

Morlan · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:17

JonRohan said:
Cheers .

Also popped it

http://www.jonrohan.co.uk/downloads/brico-pack-vista-inspirat-crystalxp.net-213070432.zip

Thanks for that.

Atomic · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:42

Best Vista theme for XP has to be Jemaho Vista 1.5 for Windowblinds - very nice representation of the Vista theme combined with Arrow theme for toolbars and one or two other things.

So better than the XP look, and use Icon Packager to change your fugly XP icons to something more Vista-ish, so much nicer to see.

Jimi · 1 Apr 2006 at 16:00

Anyone use WindowsBlinds? The Xbox theme looks great.

AnastieByte · 1 Apr 2006 at 16:02

Sorry to sound stupid but... I presume this Vista theme makes XP destop look like Vista will? Just wondering before I install it :rolleyes:

Does it slow the system down much

Morlan · 1 Apr 2006 at 16:18

I'm using it now and it's pretty cool - haven't notice much speed difference. But Firefox now looks a bit wierd.. all the toolbar and menu text is in small Time New Roman :/

Gezzard · 1 Apr 2006 at 18:28

This is what it looks like:-

Not bad. Need a nice widescreen wallpaper to match it though, haven't noticed any slowdown, just firefox looks odd. IE looks a lot nicer as do all the other icons for folders etc.

michellez · 1 Apr 2006 at 18:39

Ok, I'm being stupid here!

How the hell do you actually use it (as someone else asked!). What else do you need to install?

Edit:
Okay, answering my own question

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t339820.html

Morlan · 1 Apr 2006 at 18:53

Where's all the cool animations when you minimize stuff, etc. Aero something.. is it a seperate add-on?

GSDog · 1 Apr 2006 at 20:18

Looks really good actualy! It hasn't slowed my PC down at all.

Morlan · 1 Apr 2006 at 20:55

How about your Firefox.. does that look odd now??

GSDog · 1 Apr 2006 at 21:19

Firefox isn't bad, unless you have very bad eyesight.

Andyt_uk · 1 Apr 2006 at 23:08

Zildjian said:
Firefox isn't bad, unless you have very bad eyesight.

yeh mine looks like that which i dont like. Haven't tried changing it yet. Seems to run a little smoother with the object dock turned off.

8 I3ALL · 1 Apr 2006 at 23:16

the trouble is it looks nothing like vista

Yebraw · 2 Apr 2006 at 00:52

Well I'll find out on Monday (copy from TechNet should turn up)

Greenlizard0 · 2 Apr 2006 at 23:24

Hey nice. This isn't too bad.

Yebraw · 3 Apr 2006 at 22:05

Morlan · 3 Apr 2006 at 22:14

It's good isn't it? Such a nice change to the old XP look. I haven't noticed any performance decrease either.