[-dustin]

is there some way to change the colors of WinXP? i'm pretty tired of that blue/silver stuff, but like the feel of XP, as opposed to "classic windows." has anyone jumped into the world of XP skins?

 

[BikeGeek]

Change the colors of what, the taskbar and window headers? Right click on your desktop> properties> appearance

 

[-dustin]

that won't change the headers, though, unless i change to classic windows.

 

[BikeGeek]

Mine are olive green, and I'm not using classic

 

[-dustin]

you're probably using the olive green color scheme. i want to control the colors.

 

[BikeGeek]

yeah, I am. There should be a way.

 

[BikeGeek]

I bet you could find something here: http://www.wincustomize.com/index.aspx?u=0

 

[mack]

I was just thinking this, I am trying to resize the screen to 75% DPI but the font turns out crappy and hard to read.

 

[binary visions]

I don't think the "XP style" color scheme can be customized.

 

[mack]

I found out how to do it...

Go to Display-Apperances-advanced- then you can choose a custom color.

 

[mack]

wait, doesnt work...

 

[binary visions]

wait, doesnt work...

...as I said, you're stuck if you're using the smooth rounded bars of the WinXP style. If you want to go back to the classic Windows style - which, IMO, looks much cleaner and nicer - you can customize the colors.

I feel like they're treating me like a small child with the WinXP scheme... If I wanted to be degraded and feel like I'm being treated like an idiot, I'd use a Mac... :devil:

 

[mack]

I tried the Classic view. It made me feel kinda sick and brought back the feel of sitting in my 4th grade PC lab

 

[mack]

wait wait...

If you do wat i said to do and say change the head line to "red" the head liner will flash red when you click on the tool bar and the window "minimimizes"... it gives a cool effect

 

[steve45]

if i recall correctly you can do it in XPplus, not 100% sure but when i got the computer i'm running now it had it had plus on it(i have since reformatted), and i think i can remember being able to change the apperance like you were in classic style, but without it to my knowledge it cant be done.


hmmm interesting.
http://www.shareup.com/Style_XP-download-27610.html

 

[JRB]

I HATE XP menus. Classic for me.

 

[blue]

StyleXP owns...Get a version, find a key, and you're in good stuff, my friend.

 

[Ciaran]

http://www.shareup.com/Style_XP-download-27610.html

Style XP. You can create skins and download them. You can change some other things like your booy screen, and add transparency to your menus and taskbar. It's 20 bucks though...

Edit: Blue and the scootin tranny beat me to it.

 

[Geoff G.]

I bet you could find something here: http://www.wincustomize.com/index.aspx?u=0

go here and look for windows blinds in the gallery, download that, and you can choose from many different skins

 

[blue]

go here and look for windows blinds in the gallery, download that, and you can choose from many different skins

I had Windows Blinds a long time ago, but wasn't too impressed. It doesn't replace or modify the Windows skin files, but rather runs on top of them, making things slow and not very consistent.

 

[mack]

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