Need Help bad! Newbie begginner and I cant get it to work. Pros and Gurus welcommed!
Thursday, May 25, 2006 by Semjaza | Discussion: OS Customization
Ok. I downloaded the TemperedGlass and AeroXP. Not sure what type of theme they are but I liked them. I wanted to try those and also if soemone can teach me after how to get a boot theme on. Back to the themes....I came to this site, registered and then installed the Stardock (not even sure if I need it do I?) and I installed Theme Manager off it (not sure do I need this?)! I tried putting the .zip files in different places and making folderrs but nothing works. Can you give me a step by step instruction?
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Reply #2 Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:32 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:32 PM
If you are referring to:
Aero-XP by Gef:
Link
From the box at the top of the page labeled "Gallery Description"
DesktopX is the program that need to be installed for that theme. That and your resolution needs to be 1280x1024.
Tempered Glass by Diafragma:
Link
From the Gallery Description:
You will need Object Dock installed to use that background.
Each Gallery Description included a link to any needed software. Or you could click the software tab above.
There are 2 useful posts concerning downloading and installing things:
Link
&
Link
Aero-XP by Gef:
Link
From the box at the top of the page labeled "Gallery Description"
| DesktopX themes are single files that when applied by DesktopX |
DesktopX is the program that need to be installed for that theme. That and your resolution needs to be 1280x1024.
Tempered Glass by Diafragma:
Link
From the Gallery Description:
| ObjectDock is a program |
You will need Object Dock installed to use that background.
Each Gallery Description included a link to any needed software. Or you could click the software tab above.
There are 2 useful posts concerning downloading and installing things:
Link
&
Link
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Reply #1 Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:21 PM
That said, if you download a skin to a folder somewhere, it (almost always) is a file with a .wba extension. Once WB is installed and you've rebooted your rig, all you need to do to install the skin is double-click the .wba file & WB takes care of decompressing the files to the correct folder automatically. To actually apply the skin to the GUI, you need to open WB's configuration dialog from the System Tray then select and apply it.
I'd be careful about bootskins - some computers have no problems with them but many do and it can be frustrating to fix things if they go off the rails - unless you have a fair amount of computer knowledge & are comfortable taking your chances with unsupported beta software.