XP Themes...

[inbrino]

Im pretty bored with the look of XP and im thinking about using one of those programs that lets you use different windows themes and skins. I was wondering whether this would seriously alter my system performance. Can anyone comment on this please? Could somebody post any negative effects of using programs that affect the look of xp?

Thanks alot for any help you can offer me!

 

[MooseMan1]

well it depends on your system and the theme you use.

 

[Kage]

It depends on your system, yeah. Your system by the looks of it, should be okay.

I don't recommend them though, or at least not the most part, as if you try and ininstall, it can wreak havoc, but thats my fault for that one time, trying to use a trial that ran out...

I personally like the XP theme. But I set it to Classic, so I don't have that Silver or blue task bar.

 

[MooseMan1]

same here, classic theme, only because it doesn't take as long to render it in comparison to the XP theme

 

[Ronco Rox]

for the best themes go to http://www.wincustomize.com/

it has desktop x, windowsblinds, and a lot more stuff like icon packager and cursor xp. i wouldn't suggest windowsblinds because of its sh*tty programming you'll see that icons are missing on your desktop

desktop x is really nice looking the only problem is that all of these programs are trial verisions, except for bootskin. well have fun looking for themes.

 

[Neodude1123201]

I use style XP and i think themes are cool,but on older computer s it does affect the peroformance

 

[acerrc500]

Brico Packs is the best you dont need any program to run these themes

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

Great Collection Of Themes

 

[The Amish Kid]

http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=112891&st=0&p=1241955&#entry1241955

No programs needed = no resources used

 

[thomas49th]

Or, even more rewarding, create your own themes. You can get resource hacker (win32 resource decompiler). Try exploring

C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\

look at other previously created themes via res hacker

 

[hypetech]

StyleXP is a great program...