What is your fav color/theme?

[babis]

Hermit:

It really depends on your fav color, I like grey/silver/blue those types of colors, so I stick with themes that support that.

Others like themes with some connections to movies..I think Ls_Dragons has a thing for Lord of the rings, thus he has installed that theme ....

Do you have stylexp beta 4.2 plus installed? the one that comes with the community themes?

http://www.tgtsoft.com/download.html

[LS_Dragons]

I am a HUGE skinning/theme fan. My desktop changes about every other day. Here are a few of those that I have judged worthy to be displayed on one or more of my systems (in order of rating - best first). All are on either themexp.org or neowin.net.

crizalysxp

ChaNinja

LordOfTheRings (gondor color scheme)

MacOSX

PlasticTube (but not the orange color)

Rhodium Edge

Scribbles XP

bluesteel

There are TONS more - but these are some to try -- certified as kooool by LS_Dragons:D

[hermit]

yes

i haf it installed already

but i don't see many good themes

all the aqua ones- are not as good as the ones that windowblinds had..

the most creative (and still buggy and a bit plain) i haf seen so far is ChaNinja . However, this one, IF i use the task thing in the powertoy, it doesn't work (though i don't use it..cuz its a waste of memory)

[hermit]

and a few themes crash on my comp:hohum

[hermit]

i went through over half of the visual styles on themexp.org

and still can't really find one that i like

in windowblinds, (when i was in winme)

i like maxwb, nascent, glass, etc....

not too fancy looking, but some pretty nice design....

[babis]

I was never a big fan of WB. The problem was that I fooled around with 2.0 and it was so slow I just never went back to it again. But now with the latest version it is pretty amazing.

Ls_Dragons:

I liked plastictube but hated that orange color, I really liked the blue version i saw on neowin.net , never got a chance to get me a copy of that.

FYI, Binary one of the top theme authors is working on a macos skin, I'll tell you about it when he finishes... it looks pretty similar to all the other ones out there.. but I bet it will be less buggy.

Hermit:

How does it crash your system? I found a bug in the program, but I'm having some difficulty figuring out why that happens...

(to validate my point, I need to know how to be able to replicate it)

The bugs only occured on my brothers' computers and they have the latest beta installed...it happens randomly!

Jsut for the heck of it ..check it out... (he uses the watercolor theme)

here are some shots:

http://www.geocities.com/bantoniou.rm/bug1.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/bantoniou.rm/bug2.JPG

[hermit]

just that sometimes when i try a theme, i get an run as dll error

let's hear something about which themes u like......from u

babis:D

[babis]

Man I posted them I think oh well here they are:

[b:411c74b9be]The following are my top ones:[/b:411c74b9be]

Both are blue themes:

Blackcomb Pro 1.1

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=1073

Prophecy 1.4 [i:411c74b9be]new version coming out soon![/i:411c74b9be]

http://members.home.net/mattdagar/Prophecy...ecy_ver_1-4.rar

[b:411c74b9be]The following in random order:[/b:411c74b9be]

Watercolor v3

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=611

Classic v2 [i:411c74b9be]new version coming out soon![/i:411c74b9be]

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=832

BlueSteel XP 0.99b

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=1240

ChaNinja Beta2

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=982

The list just keeps growing, but I've found I lean more towards the clean looking themes with creativity and as few bugs as possible!

I also like the themes that I can sort of get matching winamp controls, winamp skin and wallpaper

I don't use login screen as I don't have one, and boot screen(don't restart my computer that often)

Give it time, I'm sure poeple will come up with even more amazing themes, XP just came out a few months ago, so did StyleXP ;-)

[b:411c74b9be]hermit:[/b:411c74b9be]

So how does your desktop look like?

[Aaron]

Rhodium Edge has been the only theme I've used the most, so its my favourite. The GlassXP theme ain't so bad, and there are some others.. which I can't remember (can't be bothered to switch on my WinXP machine's monitor on lol)

[hermit]

aaronxp- where do u get the glassxp one?

babis- the prophecy one is pretty good, thx

my desktop is plain and simple and tidy

i will post a screenshot up when i figured out some more stuff later

where do u get the winamp controls?

[hermit]

lord of the rings theme is also good

if u like LOR

too bad they dont' include a background to the theme

on themexp, they said beta 2 is out

but in the downloaded file, its still beta 1

[babis]

[b:6b525e960d]Hermit:[/b:6b525e960d]

[b:6b525e960d]Winamp controls:[/b:6b525e960d]

Here are the ones that match with Blue prophecy:

http://www.geocities.com/bantoniou.rm/prophecy.zip

[b:6b525e960d]To Install Winamp controls:[/b:6b525e960d]

01. Extract ZIP archive and place them in a folder in your WinAMP root folder(ex. C:/ProgramFiles/WinAMP/AudioPlayer)

02. To activate the Winamp controls, right-click an empty area on your taskbar and select Toolbars:::> New Toolbar:::> select that AudioPlayer folder

03. Right-click on the toolbar and remove the checkmark from Show Text/Title

[b:6b525e960d]To install MS powertoys audioplayer:[/b:6b525e960d]

01. First if you had an older version uninstall.

02. Install new powertoys from ms website.

03. Click on taskbar select audio player.

04. if you want to get the prophecy looking icons, then download

http://www.geocities.com/bantoniou.rm/prophecybluexp.zip

and follow these instructions:

Open command prompt:

cd c:windowssystem32

Type: move shplayer.dll shplayer.bak

Then i simply move the new dll in. You need to log off then log on for the new changes.

[i:6b525e960d]Credit: Dazzla created those icons according to Xcert's prophecy theme.[/i:6b525e960d]

If you had asked me which control to choose 2 days ago I would've said winamp as they aren't as buggy as the audioplayer ones...now I'm using the new ones by MS. They "seem" less buggy for now... need more testnig...

[hermit]

babis:

what about if i m not using the prophecy theme

i m currently using the cha-ninja theme

where do i get the winamp control?

why do i hafta "match"? doesn't xp's skin automatically skin taskball and all the toolbars?

ms' one plays mp3 too right?

one more question

how do ppl group their icons in the quick launch bar?..i mean putting a separator between different groups. Is the only way to create a new toolbar for each?

[hermit]

one more thing

is there any way to disabled some components of the powertoy after i installed them?....ex. the task switch thing..etc...

[babis]

Disable Powertoy components:

Goto Control Panel::>add remove programs:::> select MS Powertoys::> click change:::> select modify and then pick!

I don't know what you are asking me for quick launch?

Add programs to quicklaunch: Drag and drop the program shortcut

Add new toolbar but not on taskbar: Check the screenshot and tell me if this is what you are talking about?

http://www.geocities.com/bantoniou.rm/toolbar.JPG

"matching" winamp controls is just having the icons match the theme installed.

The default winamp controls come with the luna looking ones

http://www.geocities.com/bantoniou.rm/luna.rar

The MS audioplayer plays anything, it even has a playlist and a volume icon for quick access. (the icons in the top toolbar of my brother's desktop screenshot are the newly installed audio player from the ms powertoys)

To add new stuff, first of all:

unlock taskbar (right click on it and uncheck locktaskbar)

then goto toolbars :::>new::> add the folder you have your shortcuts etc..

Someone here mentioned to group all your software shortcuts in one folder and then add a new toolbar to it on the taskbar for quick access to all your files.

I hope I answered your questions.....