The last time I played around with the themes on my operating system, manually, is when I'm still in high school, a place where the teacher pwns the classroom
hmm... that time I'm still using Win98/ME or whatever. Then later on while I'm in college, a place where students pwns the classroom, I played around with
LiteStep and
WindowsBlinds. First encounter with LiteStep to me is
"Wow, this is kick ass !", it has a shell to replace windows' one. Had a lot of fun to modify and adding new things to it. WindowsBlinds was free (I think so) that time. Now you need to pay $19.95 for it, and also, now it's a component of the
Object Desktop suite.
Story ended after I upgraded to WinXP, I sticked with the original theme that came along with WindowsXP. It's been years, until now =) I'm bored with my desktop look and feel, also affected by the Windows Vista's drooling-vista-aero effect... I've
made some changes created a disaster to my desktop...
Some Vista-like theme in WinXP
Feeling a bit Mac OS X too... ?
If you're a poor bastard like me, who's unable to become a
beta tester for Windows Vista to enjoy the Vista-Aero due to slow/old computer, or for other N reasons, you can download
Brico Pack Vista Inspirat from
CrystalXP.net. Install it, and you'll be able to duplicate the disastrous outcome that looks exactly(almost) like the above screenshots. It also comes with a dock thing (top center in the screenshot) that acts similar to Mac OS X Dock.
Don't understand why I said it's a disaster ? Oh well, for most time of the installation it says "Modify xxxx.exe" instead of "Extracting xxxx.exe" or "Copying xxxx.exe". It seems like it's patching the executable files. That makes me feel nervous. There's a "Uninstall" option but the "damage" is done, how clean they can undo it ?
But anyway, up until now, I haven't encounter any system crash or weird acts yet.
ps: To make the above screenshot looks more like Windows Vista, I've changed the wallpaper from cute anime girls to Vista-like wallpaper which somehow focus on the leaves and grasses... Mircosoft Windows Vista is sending a message to the public - "We're environmentally friendly products !"
