This beta version of vista is official(received from colling@microsoft.com at least) and is an easy overlace of MS XP. If anybody got the e-mail, tell me the new install link. I had 3 links that all expired to new addresses. It is like a code, so i need the new one! Please respond!

Erm... :S

That's not Vista, that appears to be a skin for Windows XP.
Start button & menu are wrong, and it is running IE6.

I don't think this is an "official" Microsoft product at all, and a 3rd party extension to add alpha blending of Windows to the desktop must have a huge performance hit on XP...

Overlacing files are not skins! Overlacing is replacing existing system files and adding files. Most of these are made by employees in free time. I call them official because i received them from an Microsoft address after I sent a e-mail asking Collin (product consultant) an e-mail on the layout of Vista and what it would look like. He sent me an e-mail with an attachment containing an overlace file (.oce). You find the btlln.oce and replace with the attachment but backup the old file incase you have a version of XP that does not support the file or replaces it after you load it and does not save old settings (In newer versions, XP does not allow the file to be replaced and reverts the file back to the old file that does not contain old MS updates). Most of the time the file is saved as system and is not visible. You can find software that can view system files that are not visible and then replace it. Most of the time these replacement overlace files are made by programmers who does it during breaks with programming software. Overlacing files are not skins because instead of changing one thing, this file extracts files in MSDOS that completely change programs and the way they run. For instance, in paint, you can make html files, and in word you can make a website a temporary background to the document so you can get information off it and scroll the site for more info. The reason it is called overlace is because the file can install using existing files to make it much easier to download. Skins simply replace the files that make programs LOOK different.

You know anyone can fake an email coming from any email address rather easily?

I could be wrong but it looks to me like this windows is running StyleXP, this icon in the tray looks suspicious to me.

LOL please do not tell me you fell for this.

1. Start Menu
2. StyleXP pinned on Start Menu.
3. IE6.
4. Glass2k

Even the overlace is not comprehensive. Just a few icons were changed. Have a look at the start menu for example. Control Panel icon . Shows that icon packager or some other Icon enhancement software has been used.

LOL, stupid me! StyleXP is listed in the startmenu!

would a Mod please close out the topic, we all not this fake and it doesn't need to run any farther...

Brilliant stuff lol

Not to mention those are Foood's icons, not MS...

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