The Visual Styles Thread

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Bleh, I used to manually patch the uxtheme.dll with the recovery console on the windows disk. But the neowin patcher is a tad more convinent.

On my 2003 Server box, at home I just have the standard Royal theme. Although I hate it, but i'm too lazy to change it. At work on XP I use HmmXP which I love to bits.
 
:dunce: I knew I forgot one! I'll add HmmXP to the first post.
 
Yes it does. I'm using it right now. :D
 
Meh. I don't think my comp as a small arse drive.. Nor does it have a Big Arse drive. Some people are lucky..
 
I always give my drives names that contains the word arse. Computing wouldn't be the same if I didn't. I've got a second 40gb unpartitioned drive that I should set up raid with, but I just can't be arsed to do things with my pc these days.

Oh and is there a link to that iconset that is used with Ashen?
 
Race Idiot
I always give my drives names that contains the word arse. Computing wouldn't be the same if I didn't. I've got a second 40gb unpartitioned drive that I should set up raid with, but I just can't be arsed to do things with my pc these days.
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Atleast you can say that word in America and the adults won't be offended.
 
(due to the nature of responses I got from the first one I posted, I'm inclined to post again.)

Mo' clean: GotOffice?
 
I gave up on multi-patchers when the Neowin one decided to go haywire for some reason, so I now manually patch. Here's where you can find uxtheme.dll's for all different builds of XP and Server 2003. Then you just use a nifty app like Replacer to replace the old with the new and provided you downloaded the correct DLL for your build, you can't go wrong. ;)
 
I never got how you manually patched that thing so I just found a program that did it and didn't use no resources. You can use other themes than the one's on their site as long as it's a visual style file. http://themexp.org/
 
Is it me or is deviantART really slow in downloading visual styles? I get around 5.0kb/s. Milk 2.0, is a pretty decent visual style.
 
For some reason my Yz Dock won't stay on my desktop. Whenever I turn off the computer then turn it on, it disappears then i have to install it all over again and add all the icons in the dock again. How do I make it stay there? :indiff:
 
It's still installed on your computer, you just have to go and find the proper shortcut to start the dock. Put it in your programs>startup folder, that way it will load on startup. 👍
 
Uhhh... I don't have a Startup folder.BTW I'm using XP PRO

Edit: Nvm I found it in "Documents & Settings".
 
I'm pretty sure Windows 95+ all have the startup folder.
 
sUn
It's still installed on your computer, you just have to go and find the proper shortcut to start the dock. Put it in your programs>startup folder, that way it will load on startup. 👍
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Yeah. I got the yz dock myself and I seem to not find the startup folder...
 
Darin
Yeah. I got the yz dock myself and I seem to not find the startup folder...
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The Startup program group in the start menu maybe? Or if all else fails:

Code: 
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
 
Whoa, this thread is like a tomb of banned members.

But I have a reason to resurrect.

I have been alternating between Black Mesa v2 and MacroXP for, like, over a year now...

and I'm starting to get bored. But all the other ones I try are too fiddly or too bright. Any suggestions? I like gray.
 
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