Mac OSX Theme for XP

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Embattle

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Looks good but i can't get it to show the top of folders in OS X style :(
 
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bids

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You need to right-click desktop, properties, appearance, Windows Themes and Buttons, Mac OS.

Took me ten minutes to find it too :)
 
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Jonty

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I have to confess to really liking the Aqua theme, it's genuinely cool :cool: hehe. Hopefully when Longhorn gets here we'll be able to have equally powerful GUIs :)

Kind Regards
 
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bids

Guest
Been using this for a couple of days now, and it is very good. Takes a bit of getting used to the Apple icons and buttons, but the whole 'feel' is very neat. Seems very stable and quick, and doesn't have the performance hit some of the other Windows Managers have.
 
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Panda On Smack

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i was gonna ask about performance. its nice to have a good looking setup but how much does it effect the running of the machine? surely it must feel a little bogged down? does it slow down much at all?
 
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(Shovel)

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With most XP themes there is very little performance hit over running the normal Luna theme.

Using both a uxtheme.dll hack, Window Blinds XP etc. the themes are applied using the same mechanism as XP uses natively, therefore the usage will be pretty minimal (if at all) over normal. :)
 
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bids

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With Windowblinds and some of the other replacements, I had a noticeable performance hit (on my 1.6Ghz XP m/c), and some stability/reliability issues (PGP Disk wouldn't show the disk icon in Explorer, memory leak in Windowblinds that meant a reboot every other day, etc).

This OS X interface replaces many of the Windows files directly, and uses UXTheme, so it has no impact on performance/stability at all. Well worth a go imho.
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by bids
You need to right-click desktop, properties, appearance, Windows Themes and Buttons, Mac OS.

Took me ten minutes to find it too :)
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Tried that, didn't work sadly :(
 
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Sar

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I'll give it a go, but this is what I have atm with Style XP:

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bids

Guest
It looks betterer than that Sar :) - all the Explorer icons, buttons, Start Menu, Sys Tray, Toolbar - all OS X. (The icons look well spinky in Explorer).
 
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old.Fweddy

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You convinced me to download it, but now I find its 30mb :(

56k + 2hr cut off time + large files = bad
 
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Sar

Guest
I'd advise against doing it - I installed it and it installed ok, but when it rebooted the PC, it put the PC into a reboot loop - every time it appeared to be getting into windows it shut down and rebooted.

I had to install XP Pro alongside my old XP home install to get the PC working again.

Strongly advise against it.
 
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Sar

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PS: Any idea how to rescue my XP Home install? IE How to uninstall this from the Home installation from my running copy of Pro?

It's still intact in another folder on this hdd atm, and all my email settings etc are within it.

ta.
 
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Jonty

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Can you boot XP Home in safemode? This should allow you to remove the software/files causing the problems, or at least allow you to restore the system to a previous, stable point in time.

Kind Regards
 
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Clowneh!

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ill stick with my boring ugly win2k until someone shows me how to make it look nice :)
 
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bids

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That's a shit Sar - sorry 'bout that - worked fine for me :(

I'm running XP Pro, with SP1 and it went on without any problems at all.
 
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Sar

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Originally posted by Jonty
Can you boot XP Home in safemode? This should allow you to remove the software/files causing the problems, or at least allow you to restore the system to a previous, stable point in time.

Kind Regards
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I can't, because F8 brings me up my laptop's bootable drives in a list...

I am on the same PC in a instance of XP Pro though, if that's any help...
 
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Sar

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Originally posted by bids
That's a shit Sar - sorry 'bout that - worked fine for me :(

I'm running XP Pro, with SP1 and it went on without any problems at all.
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Heh, not your fault Bids - did it full well knowing if anything went wrong it'd be my fault ;)
 
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(Shovel)

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The XP Home CD is bootable and if inserted during boot up gives you the XP boot menu. Doing this should give you the safe mode options you seek.

The problem with being outside of the installation is that you need to adjust settings, and it'll be nigh on impossible to do that by hand :(

Give the CD boot a try, that may yeild some light. Assuming you can use it to boot, you can then use System Restore to roll back to before you installed the pack, then you can just delete the files by hand.
 
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Sar

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Don't have an XP Home CD, as the laptop came with it pre-installed last year...

I do have an XP Pro upgrade CD which I bought last year, although I doubt that will do the job...

:/
 
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(Shovel)

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It might. If you stick it in there is a "Repair" function, it lets you choose the drive of the XP installation to repair.

I've not done it for ages, but with a bit of luck it will give you some options on how to go about repairing it - e.g. you may be able to choose to boot to safe mode or system restore from there.

I'll have a quick hunt about for some other resources that may help too :) A boot disk could be worth a shot :)
 
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(Shovel)

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Boot Disk

Righty, this MS Knowledgebase article is of help to start off, then we want to modify the boot.ini to boot safe mode, not full blown XP.

"HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP

Then, see here for instructions on the various XP startup switches (e.g. /FASTDETECT is the default).

In this case, you want to modify the boot.ini to read something like:
Code: 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog

This assumes that the Home install is the first OS on the disk - otherwise you might have to tweak those disk/partition numbers. The above is pretty default though, so hopefully this will match you :)

Anyhow, this will boot safe mode, while also prividing a driver loading visual log and creating a text boot log should it still fail to boot.

On booting to safe mode, you'll be informed that you're in safe mode, and "are you sure you wouldn't prefer to use system restore?" (I believe you choose "No" at the prompt to get system restore).

I hope that helps. As it explains in the MS artical, you can take the files needed from the existing install directory using the XP Pro install, or just off the XP Pro disk.

Good luck :)
 
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CyberDrac

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Originally posted by Embattle
Tried that, didn't work sadly :(
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Me too ... shame ... really looked good ... maybe he'll make a 1.2 version which works for more people.
 
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bids

Guest
Have you got the Theme set to Mac OSX (instead of Custom) too ?
 
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Embattle

Guest
IIRC I checked and it didn't appear in the drop down box :(
 
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CyberDrac

Guest
Nope ... didn't appear in the list for me either ... damn shame, I really did like the look of this, the guy's website isn't any help though.
 
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Sar

Guest
Re: Boot Disk

Originally posted by (Shovel)
In this case, you want to modify the boot.ini to read something like:
Code: 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog
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SHOVEL YOU ARE A F*ahem*ING DIAMOND!

:D

It worked a treat - all I had to do was edit the boot.ini, and it gave me the required options so I could go in and use the Restore Point I had created just prior to installing this. :)

Thanks Shovel, I owe ya one :)

:sex: :wub:

Just protecting the nation's innocence :) ~ Jonty
 
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