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Feb 17 2013 11:54pm
Oh man! This reminds me of fluxbox! Can you send me some links?
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Feb 18 2013 12:33am
Quote (Ayudame @ Feb 17 2013 07:54pm)
Oh man! This reminds me of fluxbox! Can you send me some links?


http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows7/visualstyle/

if you're seriously interested in using a different theme, i highly suggest you ask questions here as you go along. some of the included instructions are less than helpful, and there one step that could easily "break" your computer if you do it wrong
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Feb 18 2013 01:13pm
I run appows nite 2, with rainmeter and win amp.

I love the backgrounds. I have the different shades of grey changing every hour.
Oh, and rocket dock.

This post was edited by xXDreamAlongXx on Feb 18 2013 01:42pm
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Feb 18 2013 07:59pm
Quote (xXDreamAlongXx @ Feb 18 2013 09:13am)
I run appows nite 2, with rainmeter and win amp.
http://i45.tinypic.com/4hwj2v.png
I love the backgrounds. I have the different shades of grey changing every hour.
Oh, and rocket dock.


love the look. i think all of appows looks better with a slim task bar - it's kind of impractical to use on a larger monitor though =/


i played around with a couple of themes last night and realized that a lot of them take away features like the address/search bar, folder options, or even the min/max buttons :( ended up going back to appows haze as it has pretty much everything in tact - but i did take the time to make a couple extra changes



changed most of the windows icons - but i still have to figure out what to do with my program icons


er...guess i didn't have to ss my entire desktop for that. oh well lol

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Feb 19 2013 01:08am
My current theme.
Not using the background it came with it, liking it a lot.

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Feb 19 2013 11:16am
Quote (Reverence @ Feb 18 2013 01:33am)
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows7/visualstyle/

if you're seriously interested in using a different theme, i highly suggest you ask questions here as you go along.  some of the included instructions are less than helpful, and there one step that could easily "break" your computer if you do it wrong


I'm a computer science major. Just wanted a link to that specific theme. What kind of resource usage does skinning like this have?
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Feb 19 2013 12:35pm
Quote (Ayudame @ Feb 19 2013 07:16am)
I'm a computer science major. Just wanted a link to that specific theme. What kind of resource usage does skinning like this have?


lol alright. but if you accidentally put something in the wrong folder, know that you'll have to restore your os

http://browse.deviantart.com/art/APPOWS2010-157033415

afaik it's no different than a stock theme. to get permission to use them you need to either patch some .dlls or install uxstyle, which is a light service that runs in the background

Quote (sicklad @ Feb 18 2013 09:08pm)
My current theme.
Not using the background it came with it, liking it a lot.

http://i.imgur.com/Ur9bXCg.jpg


congrats on the job
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Feb 19 2013 02:09pm
Quote (Reverence @ Feb 20 2013 05:35am)
congrats on the job


Lol, thanks.
Third day today.
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Feb 19 2013 04:37pm
Quote (Reverence @ Feb 18 2013 07:59pm)
love the look.  i think all of appows looks better with a slim task bar - it's kind of impractical to use on a larger monitor though =/


i played around with a couple of themes last night and realized that a lot of them take away features like the address/search bar, folder options, or even the min/max buttons :(  ended up going back to appows haze as it has pretty much everything in tact - but i did take the time to make a couple extra changes

http://imageshack.us/a/img208/4095/67824452.png

changed most of the windows icons - but i still have to figure out what to do with my program icons


er...guess i didn't have to ss my entire desktop for that.  oh well lol


Sick background. :O
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Feb 21 2013 09:42pm
does anyone know of a good icon swapping program, or a way to properly edit the .dlls that hold the windows icons? i had to use a couple programs to swap them...both were trial versions, and one of them expires after a month. tried unistalling to see what would happen, and the one that expires reverted everything back -.-

tried editing imageres.dll with resource hacker, but the edited icons reverted back once i put it in my system folder

Quote (xXDreamAlongXx @ Feb 19 2013 12:37pm)
Sick background. :O


desktopography :P
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