I Have Xp and I wanted to do vista even better! I stumbled upon a program that is an alternate start menu that is the same as in vista. BONUS. Its great. You can use the search bar to search for any programs in your start menu just like in vista. It also comes with the ability to change skins and has a skin manager to make it easy. It comes with pleny of skins and you can download more! Also this start menu doesnt have icons by control pannel documents computer exetra.. but instead the icon appears where your user picture is at when you hover your mouse on the item. COOL. Something new to look into.
Note: You cant use this start menue with a windows blinds skin applied. So for this i would go with an xp theme.
next the top right screenshot shows you the program i have called winflip this program shows all of the windows you have open as shown when you either press a certain asigned hot key or move your mouse in a circle . Whatever you choose. then you can choose the window that you want to bring foward by clicking on it. You can also look through the windows by pressing hotkeys and the one in the front will be your choice if you let go of the hotkeys. You can also bring a specific window to the front to see if it is the one you want by pressing the letter that is by it (a,b,c,d,e) The letters are assinged to the windows so that when you activate winflip the letters will appear by the windows.Well this is one feature that vista has and it is available for us loser xp users. LOL
The sidebar is the accual vista side bar and you need to install certain hotfixes and software to make it work. And I would sugest not using it if you have less than 500 mb of ram becase it takes up alot of ram i have 256 and my ram is almost all used when it is open.
Next on the top left screenshot i have diplayed the vista games witch you can get. They are way coooler. Just soliter and spider freecell and all that but better...way better. Just looks wise. There are a couple that come with vista and dont come with xp and you can get those too. Dont worry i will tell you whre to go for all of this.
The bottom right shot shows you the transparency of the windows that you can apply with tru transparancy since you cant use WB with the VISART start menu. For tool bar transparency you can use the program that is at the link i am going to provide you with but again if you dont have alot of ram i would use another program called transbar freeware that just make the taskbar transparent and it doesnt even need to be running
I have four vista screensaver that are awsome i have the vista sounds and the vista cursors. Hundreds of icons that are the real vista icons.User Account Pictures and The accual Vista Walls. Omg there is so much and all of the downloads only took up about .8 gb so if you think it is worth it then just go here
LinkYou can try the vista tranformation pack but it wouldnt work for me and I would just sugest installing everything yourself like i did it leaves more room for future customization because i thin the tranformation pack is a one click and our pc is vista and I personaly want to be able to choose which vista stuff i want to use at any given time.
Thank you so much if you need help with anythin just ask me and i hope you have fun. I know i did.
Note: I am having problems with skining the vistart menu but i looked around and didnt see that anyone else was so just to forewarn you you may have problems. There are forums on Lee-Soft that you can post questions and get help from the creator!
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Comment #1 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:04 PM