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High Tech Look Desktop Customization, change your desktop be more coolish ;D

wingster — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:45 +0800

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What did I put?

- Rocket Dock with Stackdocklet function
- Object Dock

- Icon: Eclipse 2
- Rainlender Statica2 HUD Vision Theme
- Rainmeter HUD Vision Theme, BB Tech Theme
- Vista Skin: DEUSE
(All can find on www.customize.org, www.deviantart.com or perhaps google)

- Wallpaper ... .50 Cal
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nid help on firefox theme installation,

KuzumiTaiga — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:10:36 +0800

hey guys, how do i install this kinda theme to my firefox 3.5.5? I already have the add-ons the author mentioned to install before using the theme...

http://spewboy.deviantart.com/art/Strata40...et=100#comments

plz advice thx!

Use Windows 7 Themes with XP and Vista, wow....

mzjuin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:05:30 +0800

follow this source:

http://www.labnol.org/software/windows-7-t...nd-vista/11205/

windows xp, best customization tool

falcon16 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:06:42 +0800

hey guys...wats the best freeware to use besides rainmeter and samurize to FULLY cuxtomize my windows xp

Desktop calendar, Need suggestion, freeware

normeck — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:03:45 +0800

Hi all,

Anyone has suggestion on Desktop calendar?
If it has this things that will be ok..

- Transparent
- Hide in taskbar

Tq

"Love You" wallpaper, 1024x768

Iben — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:34:18 +0800

"Love You" wallpaper

1024x768

Works every time it's tried, right?

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Windows 7 mods?, is there any docks or any themes for it?

carbonfibre — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:55:08 +0800

Hey peeps !

is there any software for docks or those widgets on ur desktop for Windows 7 yet?

quite interested in havin them when i get windows 7..

or is there any themes?

Start Menu on Dock in Vista,

shirley_andy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:07:34 +0800

How do I make a start menu on my dock??
I'm using RocketDock with Stack Docklet...

The Start Menu Docklet I found didn't satisfy me cuz the menu still comes out from the taskbar eventhough I click the icon on the dock..

Wallpaper tutorial,

Boomeraangkid — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:46:49 +0800

well, i dont know what subforum to post in, but since this is desktop moddding. anyway, i was wondering anyone could share any tuts on how to make wallpapers? like those easy to follow, with steps and pictures

[ WTA ] how 2 make windows vista to mac lookalike., help me!

fuzzly! — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:17:08 +0800

As title, please help me to do that.

im using win vista ultimate sp 2.

can change to mac lookalike?

need ur advise.

thanks in advance.

[WTA]for opinions. =D,

ray6369 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:02:21 +0800

any nice and suitable CAD skin suggestion please? =D

[addedon]November 12, 2009, 11:56 pm[/addedon]bump?

[WTA]Application, Help =D

ray6369 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:40:59 +0800

image taken from random post

Any idea how did the user made his media player looks like that?

Animated GIF image as Wallpaper in Vista,

shirley_andy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:59:34 +0800

How do I use an animated GIF image as wallpaper in Vista so that my wallpaper moves...

In XP, I can select "all file" in the menu to choose GIF file but in Vista only have "image file" and it don't consider GIF as image file..

[WTA]how to restore back the setting, i lost my default setting

DayDream-ing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:01 +0800

as title,i lost my icon and font setting.
the icon is little big but the font is kinda small
hmm...so can anyone show the step to set back to default window xp setting,or just show me ur advance appearance for reference

[addedon]November 6, 2009, 9:54 pm[/addedon]update-i has been search from google,some of the method is using system restore but this has been coming over a long period of time so I don't know when to reset it to or using the window xp to reinstall the font file,but i dont have the cd

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window 7 theme for XP, nice theme

andythung — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:58:57 +0800

anyone got win 7 themes for win xp ?use wat ever software also can ...but it must no crash with window ~

[WTA] vista transparency, about vista border and taskbar

d3l4croix — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:18:50 +0800

some1 know how to make vista explorer still transparent when maximizing window??
if u use vistaglazz know bout error vistaglazz cant patch?

for taskbar?how to make it fully transparent or how to adjust its transparency?

other question - if possible, how to change vista taskbar to seven taskbar?

Proposing browser theme thread,

Voxe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:59:21 +0800

Should we have a browser theme thread? Firefox and chrome have some really awesome themes and it would be cool to discuss and showoff browser themes.

Access Hidden Regional Themes in Windows 7, Themes Canada, Australia, South Africa,

hotfilemalaysia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:44:58 +0800

Access Hidden Regional Themes in Windows 7

Windows 7 offers you location specific Aero themes based on the language and location you pick during installation. Here we will take a look at accessing other hidden themes from different countries.

When you first start the Windows 7 installation the first thing you will do is select a language, time and currency format. This is where Windows determines what themes you’re presented with by default.

Being from the US I’m presented with location specific themes from the United States with desktop backgrounds such as scenery from Maine, Idaho, Oregon etc.

To access the other international themes copy and paste the following path into the search box and hit Enter.

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C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT
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In the MCT folder you will find additional themes for Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Great Britain.

You can go in and grab just the Wallpapers…

Or go into the Theme folder double click on the the thumbnail to add it.

Here you can see I added all of them and now they will be available under the My Themes section for when you want to change them around.

This is a neat little trick that will let you customize Windows 7 with hidden themes already available. Also if you want to get more themes head over to the Microsoft site.

Microsoft site
Personalization Gallery

CODE

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize

Rainmeter 1.1 is now available!,

fariz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:49:56 +0800

Lots of new features to make skin authoring and editing easier and more powerful, and great new tools for end users to help with managing Rainmeter in your environment.

Partial list of important new features:

New Version 2.6 of Enigma
New RainBrowser config/skin manager.
Style sections! New MeterStyle makes skins easier to create/edit.
Dynamic Variables! It's now possible to use the results of measures as variables.
Share variables and settings globally with @Inlcude.
New LocalFonts feature means the user doesn't have to install your included font.
Added support for the middle mouse button.
New bang !RainmeterSetVariable can be used to change the value of a variable.
New [Metadata] section to add and display skin information in RainBrowser.
Aspect ratio of images is preserved when the images are scaled.

Full Release Notes

Download: http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/

November 2009 Desktops,

gengstapo — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:32:24 +0800

Posting Guidelines:
This is to prevent the dreaded side scrolling.

Please make sure the desktop screenshot you post is safe to browse for anyone, this is not a place for you to show how sexy the babe on your wallpaper or desktop.
If your image is larger than 640x480 please make a thumbnail or text linking to your image.
The thumbnail must not be larger than 640px wide, if your thumbnail is larger your post will be edited possibly deleted.
Please refrain from using a {spoiler} tag to post screenshots or embedded images
if you are going to quote a topic please remove the image from within the quote.
Moderators have the right to edit or remove any of the posts in this thread.

How do I post an image?:

Upload your image and thumbnail to your host
Use the following tag below and replace "yourURL" with the location and name of your image. This will link the thumbnail to your full size image. You can use text instead of a thumbnail by replacing the img tag with your text.
Also keep in mind that when using spaces in your url, replace the spaces with %20. Some images break when using spaces.
Example:
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[URL=http://yourURL/screenshot.jpg][IMG]http://yourURL/thumbnail.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
In the interests of keeping the thread on topic it is strongly urged that you format your posts in the following order:
- Visual Style: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).
- Wallpaper: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).
- Icons: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).
- Programs: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Happy Customizing