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Avaphi
01-18-2007, 05:45 AM
~Windows XP - Themes~
V0.5
I am creating this guide/tutorial, for people who are sick and tired of there drab, old, Windows look, and want to get some new styles on there computer. With no performance hits !

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Downloading The Themes...
So your tired of the ol' windows look, you want to change up things a bit. You have come to the right place ! First of all I want you to go to the following site and download this torrent : ~Windows XP-Themes~ (http://www.isohunt.com/download/16104723/style+xp+theme)
once you have downloaded that, you are going to want to open the torrent file with a BitTorrent capable programs such as: Azeurus, uTorrent or BitComet. After you have them downloaded you are well on your way to making your XP machine, into an ub3r sexy machine ! Now that you have them downloaded to whatever directory you chose, you should double click on the file "46 Cool Themes For Windows XP" Once inside, you should see all the following files:
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If you do, Thats great, because you can continue reading ! Now that you have the file, it is time to patch it, so you dont have to download a 3rd party program to use these themes, which hog valuable system resources ! To patch it, first double click on the file called "UXTheme Multi-Patcher (Neowin Edition) 4.0" Once inside you should see the following file:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9065/smalley2.png

If you do, good, double click it. You should now see a screen similar to this :

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/110/2eathb9.png

I want you to click on the button 'Patch'. Here is where you are going to want to pay close attention. Now that you are here you most likley see this pop up :

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1884/3eatgh1.png

if you do, good. Now I want you to wait at least one minute before doing anything else. Now that you have waited, it is time to press the 'cancel' button on that window. Then oh no ! A new window pops up and should look like this:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8239/4eatft0.png

I want you to press the 'cancel' button as well here. Finally you should see this window:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6502/5eatkj8.png

Now you should be prompted and it will say "this machine needs to restart to use the software blah blah blah" so keep clicking ok, and retart your system. Congratulations, you are now ready to start installing the themes themselves !

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Installing The Themes...
Now you are ready to install the themes ! First go back to your main file that you downloaded from the torrent. Once your there, you should see the file called "Themes" double-click here and go inside ! Now you will see a folder called "Themes-Visual Styles", double-click yet again. Now you are here you have plenty to choose from, I reccomend you goto a file, and not open the rars. For example, you can choose the Chivalry theme(my favorite), so go inside of that folder. Now you should see just one file, double click this. Now this(Or any other theme-unpacker for that matter) will pop open a box saying do you want to install this, whatever it pops up, always click next and at the end, click finish. Once you have got to the end of the theme installation, and have installed the ones you wanted its time to start using them, read on !

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Using The Themes...
Time to teach that old windows some new tricks ! To start using the themes goto your desktop. Once there, right-click, and go down and click on properties. Now you are at the display properties window, click on the 'Themes' tab. Now for your final step, click on the 'Themes' drop down box and choose what ever one you want !

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Examples:
-under contruction-

Hope you liked my guide 8)

Avaphi

Dark_Sniper
02-03-2007, 12:52 AM
torrent does not exist.

lil rahmer662
03-24-2008, 10:31 PM
Go to isohunt.com and type in 46 cool xp themes. Then you'll get the same thing as he tried to link to

chitin
03-26-2008, 05:20 PM
cool, but xp themes do take up mem, its gui's