Do you use custom windows Themes? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

ph33rz · 03-03-2005, 11:06 PM

I was wanting to know for those of you that do theme your windows what programs and themes u guys use?

Manic_Skafe · 03-03-2005, 11:14 PM

Weird thread and I think this goes in the computers forum but I'll work with it.

I used to change my theme to the Rainy Day theme but after getting used to formatting my drives on a weekly basis I got used to the standard look.

ph33rz · 03-03-2005, 11:18 PM

I see, Did the themes cause you to have to format ur drives on a weekly basis?

Nisses · 03-04-2005, 12:11 AM

If you take a general theme, that just changes the color and look, no, that shouldn't make a difference at all.

That being said, no, I never use themes anymore. I did years ago, but I always seemed to get bored with it after a few weeks, and so stopped using it. I just stick with the silver theme from XP, suits me fine.

Slavakion · 03-04-2005, 03:35 AM

My theme... is the Windows Classic. Think of Windows 98, and you'll know what my computer looks like.

optik_nerve · 03-04-2005, 09:47 AM

I use Mac OS X.

IC3 · 03-04-2005, 12:55 PM

I use Style XP

spived2 · 03-04-2005, 01:03 PM

I used to use desktopX. Costs money but you can find free if you look hard enough.

phukraut · 03-04-2005, 04:04 PM

I use MacOSX Pro. It's very sweet, and it comes with a winamp skin, Winamp_X. Throw in a Trillian iChat skin and a few aqua wallpapers, and I'm halfway to a perverted OSX.

BurntToast · 03-04-2005, 05:26 PM

I have used Style XP and it is a nice program.

However I have gone a little more drastic and now use a shell replacement.

Litestep is the shit!

glytch · 03-04-2005, 07:46 PM

I love changing up XP "themes". I used to use StyleXP but now just use a hacked-together uxtheme.dll. It doesn't take up any resources, and allows you to do what you like. Actually, I think it's time for me to check in to the "post your desktop" thread again...

ph33rz · 03-07-2005, 10:58 AM

I agree i like litestep alot, But god its so hard to get used to it, I wanna find one litestep theme that looks cool and has like a taskbar and etc to where you can still access all your stuff without having to search for 5 mins tryin to find ur start menu button..., At the moment, I used object desktop and created a side bar...and its suiting me pretty well

bendsley · 03-07-2005, 11:58 AM

Windows themes don't usually work under Linux

ph33rz · 03-07-2005, 05:10 PM

Lol ture, what version of linux do you use? I've used gentoo redhat and mandrake aswell as suse 9 and i've fiddleld with slackware..My favorite by far was gentoo tho..

Kazic · 03-07-2005, 09:07 PM

I usually don't use themes but I started using Desktop XP. heh I am still a bit lazy and haven't really tweaked it all. I just don't like in some instances if I have to restart my comp I have to resetup all my changes. At first I changed them back each time. slowly though I stopped changeing shit. and ended up just leaving it alone at what comes up.

bbbbbb555 · 03-07-2005, 09:49 PM

i used to use windows blinds, and the have a ton of themes that you can download. i liked some of them a lot, but they slow down your computer some so i stopped using them.
you can get all kinds of different themes at deviant art.

bendsley · 03-08-2005, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ph33rz

Lol ture, what version of linux do you use? I've used gentoo redhat and mandrake aswell as suse 9 and i've fiddleld with slackware..My favorite by far was gentoo tho..

I figured my avatar would have said it all.

As for what distro I use? Debian, of course. www.debian.org

Latch is hell bent on Gentoo also, but thats just because he doesn't know any better.

killeena · 03-08-2005, 07:02 AM

I use bblean (Blackbox for windows). It is a total replacement for explorer, and much lighter on resources. It is a little work at first, because there are a lot of things you have to manually change in config files, but once it is going, it is pretty nice.

IC3 · 03-08-2005, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Kazic

I usually don't use themes but I started using Desktop XP. heh I am still a bit lazy and haven't really tweaked it all. I just don't like in some instances if I have to restart my comp I have to resetup all my changes. At first I changed them back each time. slowly though I stopped changeing shit. and ended up just leaving it alone at what comes up.

That kinda sucks that if you shut down the program won't save your themes. If that was the case with Style XP i wouldn't even bother.

xepherys · 03-08-2005, 10:45 AM

I actually go so far as to disable theme services for XP. The extra 1.5% system performance is worth it.

ph33rz · 03-08-2005, 10:48 AM

killeena That program is pretty nice, what plugins do you use? if any, and what version of it are u using..?

Confederate · 03-08-2005, 02:25 PM

I'm not sure how this turned into a linux thread, but ok.

I used windowsblinds there for a while, but it crashed certain program, now I just use windows classic theme.

TheJig · 03-09-2005, 09:05 AM

I used Desktop X and Windowblinds for a while, but I still have Windows 2000 so none of the themes looked the way they were supposed to.

I also tried Aston, which I really liked, but it's not free and my trial ran out.

aa1037 · 03-09-2005, 10:13 AM

StyleXP for me

Wingless · 03-09-2005, 08:00 PM

Hacked uxptheme.dll (orwhatever it is) for me!

ph33rz · 03-09-2005, 08:18 PM

You guys got screenys?

HeAtHeN · 03-09-2005, 08:41 PM

I use Luna VX Theme.... love it.

killeena · 03-10-2005, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ph33rz

killeena That program is pretty nice, what plugins do you use? if any, and what version of it are u using..?

I am using version 1.12 with the default BBLean plugins, and bbShelf.

soccerchamp76 · 03-10-2005, 07:30 PM

How do you hack the uxptheme.dll?? Or do you download one?

ph33rz · 03-13-2005, 08:58 AM

You download it ..

glytch · 03-13-2005, 10:19 AM

Either download it or use reshack. I think there's a uxtheme patcher as well.

jamesconrad · 03-22-2005, 09:16 PM

The only theme I use is the one that came with Windows 2000 or the new media center theme called "Royale" located at:

<a href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP.shtml">Royale Theme</a>

I like a clean a neat desktop. Nothing fancy.

muckluck · 03-23-2005, 12:59 PM

I use bblean 1.2 and use the nextrel style for it.It saves resources and looks better and adds functionality. Best program ever.

MrFlux · 03-23-2005, 05:19 PM

I use Luna Element

mikec · 03-25-2005, 12:15 PM

stylexp, and themes from www.themexp.org..

JeremyS · 03-25-2005, 02:29 PM

I use Windows Classic theme. I like my computer to run as fast as possible.

FlunkedFlank · 03-26-2005, 10:51 AM

any time I've ever tried using a theme it eventually started to crash things and make things generally unstable. might work fine for email, MS Office, etc.., but any other kind of complicated program and it was always trouble for me after a while.

darkangel · 03-28-2005, 12:26 AM

I use Windows Blinds, and I haven't noticed my computer running any slower..

Wingless · 03-28-2005, 08:23 AM

Hacked uxtheme.dll doesn't slow my system down at all. I had some problems initially, but they all ironed out in the end. It runs the same speed as if I were running Classic or XP themes.

d3cemberist · 04-08-2005, 04:56 PM

I've always been a Windows Classic man myself. Clean and simple is the way to go!

03-03-2005, 11:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	Do you use custom windows Themes? I was wanting to know for those of you that do theme your windows what programs and themes u guys use?

03-03-2005, 11:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
Manic_Skafe More Than You Expect Location: Queens	Weird thread and I think this goes in the computers forum but I'll work with it. I used to change my theme to the Rainy Day theme but after getting used to formatting my drives on a weekly basis I got used to the standard look. __________________ "Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian

03-04-2005, 12:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
Nisses Shade Location: Belgium	If you take a general theme, that just changes the color and look, no, that shouldn't make a difference at all. That being said, no, I never use themes anymore. I did years ago, but I always seemed to get bored with it after a few weeks, and so stopped using it. I just stick with the silver theme from XP, suits me fine. __________________ Moderation should be moderately moderated.

03-04-2005, 12:55 PM	#7 (permalink)
IC3 Poison Location: Canada	I use Style XP __________________ "To win any battle, you must fight as if you were already dead" -Musashi

03-04-2005, 01:03 PM	#8 (permalink)
spived2 Desert Rat Location: Arizona	I used to use desktopX. Costs money but you can find free if you look hard enough. __________________ "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." - V

03-03-2005, 11:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	I see, Did the themes cause you to have to format ur drives on a weekly basis?

03-04-2005, 03:35 AM	#5 (permalink)
Slavakion Mjollnir Incarnate Location: Lost in thought	My theme... is the Windows Classic. Think of Windows 98, and you'll know what my computer looks like.

03-04-2005, 09:47 AM	#6 (permalink)
optik_nerve Psycho Location: Florida	I use Mac OS X.

03-04-2005, 04:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
phukraut Addict	I use MacOSX Pro. It's very sweet, and it comes with a winamp skin, Winamp_X. Throw in a Trillian iChat skin and a few aqua wallpapers, and I'm halfway to a perverted OSX.

03-04-2005, 05:26 PM	#10 (permalink)
BurntToast Here, yet not all there. Location: Franklinville, NJ	I have used Style XP and it is a nice program. However I have gone a little more drastic and now use a shell replacement. Litestep is the shit! __________________ The taint. Conveniently located between the snack bar and the dumpster.

03-04-2005, 07:46 PM	#11 (permalink)
glytch I am not permanent. Location: Tennessee	I love changing up XP "themes". I used to use StyleXP but now just use a hacked-together uxtheme.dll. It doesn't take up any resources, and allows you to do what you like. Actually, I think it's time for me to check in to the "post your desktop" thread again... __________________ If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. - Mitch Hedberg

03-07-2005, 10:58 AM	#12 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	I agree i like litestep alot, But god its so hard to get used to it, I wanna find one litestep theme that looks cool and has like a taskbar and etc to where you can still access all your stuff without having to search for 5 mins tryin to find ur start menu button..., At the moment, I used object desktop and created a side bar...and its suiting me pretty well

03-07-2005, 11:58 AM	#13 (permalink)
bendsley Professional Loafer Location: texas	Windows themes don't usually work under Linux __________________ "You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."

03-07-2005, 05:10 PM	#14 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	Lol ture, what version of linux do you use? I've used gentoo redhat and mandrake aswell as suse 9 and i've fiddleld with slackware..My favorite by far was gentoo tho..

03-07-2005, 09:07 PM	#15 (permalink)
Kazic Psycho Location: Fortress of Solitude	I usually don't use themes but I started using Desktop XP. heh I am still a bit lazy and haven't really tweaked it all. I just don't like in some instances if I have to restart my comp I have to resetup all my changes. At first I changed them back each time. slowly though I stopped changeing shit. and ended up just leaving it alone at what comes up. __________________ "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

03-09-2005, 10:13 AM	#24 (permalink)
aa1037 Insane Location: New York	StyleXP for me

03-09-2005, 08:00 PM	#25 (permalink)
Wingless Psycho Location: Metro Detroit, Mich, USA	Hacked uxptheme.dll (orwhatever it is) for me! __________________ Tommy Nibs is a funny word. So here I am, above palm trees, so straight and tall... You are, smaller getting smaller, but I still see... you. Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbor

03-07-2005, 09:49 PM	#16 (permalink)
bbbbbb555 Crazy Location: New Orleans	i used to use windows blinds, and the have a ton of themes that you can download. i liked some of them a lot, but they slow down your computer some so i stopped using them. you can get all kinds of different themes at deviant art.

03-08-2005, 07:02 AM	#18 (permalink)
killeena Crazy Location: Meechigan	I use bblean (Blackbox for windows). It is a total replacement for explorer, and much lighter on resources. It is a little work at first, because there are a lot of things you have to manually change in config files, but once it is going, it is pretty nice. __________________ Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno

03-08-2005, 10:45 AM	#20 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	I actually go so far as to disable theme services for XP. The extra 1.5% system performance is worth it.

03-08-2005, 10:48 AM	#21 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	killeena That program is pretty nice, what plugins do you use? if any, and what version of it are u using..?

03-08-2005, 02:25 PM	#22 (permalink)
Confederate Death Leprechaun Location: College Station, TX	I'm not sure how this turned into a linux thread, but ok. I used windowsblinds there for a while, but it crashed certain program, now I just use windows classic theme.

03-09-2005, 09:05 AM	#23 (permalink)
TheJig Crazy Location: The Marmalade Forest	I used Desktop X and Windowblinds for a while, but I still have Windows 2000 so none of the themes looked the way they were supposed to. I also tried Aston, which I really liked, but it's not free and my trial ran out. __________________ "Jenny, tell me, do you still walk, do you still get into sandwiches in a big way?" - Flight of the Conchords

03-09-2005, 08:18 PM	#26 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	You guys got screenys?

03-10-2005, 07:30 PM	#29 (permalink)
soccerchamp76 Go Cardinals Location: St. Louis/Cincinnati	How do you hack the uxptheme.dll?? Or do you download one? __________________ Brian Griffin: Ah, if my memory serves me, this is the physics department. Chris Griffin: That would explain all the gravity.

03-13-2005, 08:58 AM	#30 (permalink)
ph33rz Upright	You download it ..

03-13-2005, 10:19 AM	#31 (permalink)
glytch I am not permanent. Location: Tennessee	Either download it or use reshack. I think there's a uxtheme patcher as well. __________________ If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. - Mitch Hedberg

03-22-2005, 09:16 PM	#32 (permalink)
jamesconrad Upright	The only theme I use is the one that came with Windows 2000 or the new media center theme called "Royale" located at: <a href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP.shtml">Royale Theme</a> I like a clean a neat desktop. Nothing fancy.

03-23-2005, 12:59 PM	#33 (permalink)
muckluck Psycho	I use bblean 1.2 and use the nextrel style for it.It saves resources and looks better and adds functionality. Best program ever.

03-23-2005, 05:19 PM	#34 (permalink)
MrFlux Fluxing wildly... Location: Auckland, New Zealand	I use Luna Element __________________ flux (n.) Medicine. The discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines.

03-25-2005, 12:15 PM	#35 (permalink)
mikec I flopped the nutz... Location: Stratford, CT	stylexp, and themes from www.themexp.org.. __________________ Until the 20th century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the charted electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one millionth of reality

03-25-2005, 02:29 PM	#36 (permalink)
JeremyS Crazy	I use Windows Classic theme. I like my computer to run as fast as possible.

03-26-2005, 10:51 AM	#37 (permalink)
FlunkedFlank Tilted	any time I've ever tried using a theme it eventually started to crash things and make things generally unstable. might work fine for email, MS Office, etc.., but any other kind of complicated program and it was always trouble for me after a while. __________________ Jesus saves ... and Gretzky gets the rebound!

03-28-2005, 12:26 AM	#38 (permalink)
darkangel Crazy Location: AB, Canada	I use Windows Blinds, and I haven't noticed my computer running any slower.. __________________ "I'm gonna die when it's time for me to die.. so let me live my life the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix

03-28-2005, 08:23 AM	#39 (permalink)
Wingless Psycho Location: Metro Detroit, Mich, USA	Hacked uxtheme.dll doesn't slow my system down at all. I had some problems initially, but they all ironed out in the end. It runs the same speed as if I were running Classic or XP themes. __________________ Tommy Nibs is a funny word. So here I am, above palm trees, so straight and tall... You are, smaller getting smaller, but I still see... you. Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbor

04-08-2005, 04:56 PM	#40 (permalink)
d3cemberist Crazy	I've always been a Windows Classic man myself. Clean and simple is the way to go!