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Post A Picture Of Your Desktop; With Info on how to Customise yours
Topic Started: Feb 9 2007, 02:30 PM (225 Views)
CarrotBlu
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Ok I'll put all the links/info on this post, might help people if they just look at this one and can get all the info off it Surprised

Ok first off you need to get Windows Blinds

Get Windows Blinds Here

If you do not have WinRar, you will need it to open Windows Blinds

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm Get this WinRAR 3.70 beta 2



That is the program that means you can get other skins for Windows, from sites like these...

http://www.wincustomize.com/

It has a hell of a lot of stuff to change your desktop, just have a look around it

BootSkins CursorXP DesktopX Objects DesktopX Themes DesktopX Widgets IconPackager Logons Misc. Icons ObjectBar2 ObjectDock Rainlendar RightClick Screen Savers ScreenShots Suites SysMetrix WallPapers WinAmp WindowBlindsWinMedia






I found that after I installed WB, that the skins did not work directly through the program, so what I did was..

Right Click on the Desktop

Bring up the Display Properties

Go to Appearance

The skins that you have downloaded from the site, should be under Windows & Buttons, that was how I got mine to work



Docks

To get a dock, the things that look like they belong on a mac, go to..

http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock

I tried using the ObjectDock, but it was pretty awful in my opinion, this one is really easy to use.


Drag and drop the icons you want on and off the dock, the normal windows icons will look rather sh*te, so go to these sites for nice, pretty looking high res icons

http://www.customxp.net/images/PngFactory/index.php

http://www.crystalxp.net/en.htm

Edit to add - http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/invader.aspx

Those 2 have alot of the normal icons you need, plus Limewire/uTorrent etc, it had all the ones I needed anyway

Download these icons to a file that is easy to get to, desktop etc

To change the icons in the dock, right click on the icon you want to change (in the dock) go to Icon settings and find the folder you downloaded the icons to (desktop etc)

Should look nice and new, you can play around with the positioning of the dock and the look of it, if you go to Dock settings, again right click on an icon

Backgrounds

http://www.deviantart.com/

That is the best site I have found for background images, I'm sure there are a lot around though!

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/

http://www.adni18.com/

Widgets

Don't use them myself but

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Hopefully that helps a little about, how to do it...there are other people on the thread who have done it different ways, if you want me to add how you did it, just say so...

One more thing to get rid of the old icons on your desktop and to just have your Dock & Background Image..

Right Click on your desktop

Go to Arrange Icons By

And UNclick Show Desktop Icons, should get rid of them all, if you want them back to Click it again

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CarrotBlu
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Just let me know if you don't understand any of it
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Yours is good [[=
This is mine. Im not good at making them so iv just used a picture from a klaxons gig [=


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CarrotBlu
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nice one **thumbup
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keziabluez
Feb 9 2007, 03:44 PM
Yours is good [[=
This is mine. Im not good at making them so iv just used a picture from a klaxons gig [=


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sick.
cant wait for the glow sticks :D
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jenni
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im running vista
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Frank Worthington
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Sheffers have you got vista? or just a desktop made by someone that looks like vista?

And carrot blue i don't get you at all lol - i want a dekstop like yours tbh
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Steve
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@Macca: It's Vista :)

Heres my Current:
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And here's my old Mac Style One:
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CarrotBlu
Feb 9 2007, 02:43 PM
Just let me know if you don't understand any of it

not only are there some elements i don't understand, i don't think i want to.... :unsure:
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jenni
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ye im running windows vista business
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Feb 12 2007, 02:09 AM

i like that cph, please tell me about it....
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children i think you need to get out alot more.
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Feb 12 2007, 07:57 AM
The Concerned Potato Head
Feb 12 2007, 02:09 AM

i like that cph, please tell me about it....

it's the skyline of Manilla (i think)

i like tall buildings so.... :)

i found it on the skyscraper city forums

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get out more lol? im all over the country each day
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Feb 12 2007, 04:34 PM
proccysotv
Feb 12 2007, 07:57 AM
The Concerned Potato Head
Feb 12 2007, 02:09 AM

i like that cph, please tell me about it....

it's the skyline of Manilla (i think)

i like tall buildings so.... :)

i found it on the skyscraper city forums

manilla eh, i thought it was chelmsley wood....
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Feb 12 2007, 06:14 PM
The Concerned Potato Head
Feb 12 2007, 04:34 PM
proccysotv
Feb 12 2007, 07:57 AM
The Concerned Potato Head
Feb 12 2007, 02:09 AM

i like that cph, please tell me about it....

it's the skyline of Manilla (i think)

i like tall buildings so.... :)

i found it on the skyscraper city forums

manilla eh, i thought it was chelmsley wood....

Close enough
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Mac's are the Best defo i think Vista trying to copy us metinks
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