How to change your desktop

[Pedro Amorim]

Hello dudes and dudettes

I just finished moding my desktop, and after it i decided i would share how i did it with a nice tutorial for you to follow.

The tutorial is here.

http://www.pedroamorim.com/forum/deskmod/

dont know if this is anyusefull, but anyways. here you have it. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Zcubed]

Thanks for the quick writeup. My friends are always asking me "Woah, is that Windows?" Now I can just point them to your guide. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Your replacer seems nice, but I've always found the Neowin Patcher (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=140707) to be the easiest fix for uxtheme.dll. Less clicking means that you're less likely to screw something up. You can also use something like Icon Tweaker (http://joost.endoria.net/home) to further customize your icons.

[Pedro Amorim]

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i used this replacer because im using home editon of xp, and somehow everythime i used the neowin patcher it never worked. :\

yeah. icon tweaker could be cool to change some icons that are software related like .rar one.

hehe

here's a shot of the entire desk.
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6776/ssir0.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssir0.jpg)

[greenj2]

Looks cool man, I used to use a prog called Aston Shell (i think) a long while ago. Until I realized it was hogging about half of my system resources. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[KDR_11k]

Desktop? I thought that's called a window manager.

[Pedro Amorim]

you say tomato i say tomato. :P

[notman]

lol, funny... people try to make Linux look like Windows and now Windows users are trying to make their desktops look like Linux /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Pedro Amorim]

lol. at looks better than your regular windows of the box

[snemmy]

hah!! i make my windows look like my Mac /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Justin Meisse]

huzzah, windows rebooted gave an error message that uxtheme.dll wasn't a windows image and refused to load the shell, luckily I could reboot into safe mode with command prompt and restore the backup that way. I'm using WinXP Pro

[MightyPea]

If it's the neowin patcher, that happened to me a few times as well. I've never had any such issues with just replacing the .dll though, so if you're allready doing that, i can't help.

[Justin Meisse]

I used bitmap's method, afterwords I used the neowin patcher and it worked fine. I freaked because I was waiting on an important email!

[Pedro Amorim]

:|

one question. do you have SP2?

[Justin Meisse]

Yep, no hard feelings though, I'm a computer tech by trade so as long as I can still access the data on my harddrive I'm fine. Luckily your technique made a backup of uxtheme.dll so it was a simple to fix.

The moral of this story, make a backup of uxtheme.dll if you're going to do any patches or anything and then try any method that works for you /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Pedro Amorim]

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well said