XP Themes

Adam18290 · 8 May 2007 at 16:06

I have heard they are dangerous and can corrupt some hard drives. Are there any safe themes or skins you can apply?

Thanks

Chunk

kirbz · 8 May 2007 at 16:11

hi there

i have a patch from neowin forums and my pc is fine, here is the patcher, and you can get themes etc... from here

as i have said my pc is fine from using these and its one of the first things i do on a fresh install.

Adam18290 · 8 May 2007 at 16:24

So what you do once your on deviant art?
I got to the customization part, then themes and skins, what you do once uve found a nice theme/skin you like?

Thanks

Chunk

kirbz · 8 May 2007 at 16:36

well I just do a search for visual styles

Adam18290 · 8 May 2007 at 16:52

a lot of people have written below it about it mucking up there system :S
Is it simple and easy to do?
Just run the patcher, rr and then apply themes/skins from deviant art?

Thanks

Chunk

Adam18290 · 8 May 2007 at 18:09

in the end i dl'ed some 'XPize' program, patched everything automatically, now i can just apply visual styles from deviant art.
Recommend the program.

Thanks

Chunk

MarcLister · 8 May 2007 at 18:34

I use http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/UXTheme-Patch-For-Windows-XP-SP2-Final.shtml. A little program and once I've run that all I have to do is double click on a theme file in Windows and it gets loaded for me.

nLite also has the option in it to run the UXTheme patcher for you so its possible to nLite a copy of Windows and have it able to run themes for you, out of the box.

I also use http://www.web9design.com/Portfolio/xpm-classic as my theme and then install http://vertigosity.benpbrown.com/index.php?page=download as an icon pack. Makes Windows look very nice.