Free Visual XP Themes for your WinXP, Awesome!

[SFang]

Found this website accidentally, totally awesome! Never imagined WinXP can be customized to be so beautiful.

Everything is free downloadable, Enjoy!

soulgreece.com

Website originally named
thetopthemes.com

The themes and all other goodies are aligned on the top of the webpage like menu buttons. Click on them will direct you to each sub section.

A. To change themes, logon screen, styles, wallpaper, etc:
An easy way is to use the free download "StyleXP" shareware linked on the website. It has options for changing each one of them. Personally, I use StyleXP.

Note: Some say that the TGT StyleXP shareware will expire after sometime, here is a link to manually install your theme without using this shareware (thanks to Mhz). May not work with SP1, do it at your own risk.

B. To change bootscreen:
An easy way is to use the "BootXP" software from http://www.bootxp.net/ (thanks to Devistater).

If you want to do it manually, here is a bootscreen guide to change the boot screen manually.

All works for me.

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A Great website for Wallpapers is http://www.digitalblasphemy.com

Requires membership for member areas. However, their free user area have many nice wallpapers too.
User Area 1, User Area 2, User Area 3, User Area 4, User Area 5

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[MrDudeMan]

very cool

been looking for some themes

thanks

 

[Yobbo]

Site is a little sluggish, but very cool

 

[SFang]

Duh. That website went slow in 3 minutes because of the traffic. LOL.

 

[NICKel]

Here's another great one....
http://www.themexp.org/

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: NICKel
Here's another great one....
http://www.themexp.org/

It's dead, Jim.

 

[hevnsnt]

just a moment...
ThemeXP is switching to a new server platform to finally rid of all these access hiccups! You'll enjoy quick-loading web pages and fast downloads momentarily; please bear with us!

Thanks,
ThemeXP Staff

 

[kermalou]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
just a moment...
ThemeXP is switching to a new server platform to finally rid of all these access hiccups! You'll enjoy quick-loading web pages and fast downloads momentarily; please bear with us!

Thanks,
ThemeXP Staff

they have been saying that for over a couple of months.

once again,

It's dead, Jim.

 

[TheTechnique]

This is really not a "hot" deal...

 

[MHz]

Actually ThemeXP was up 2 days ago.

And to make this a deal, goto this link
http://download.lightstar1.com/install/UxThemePatcher.zip
there, now you don't need $20 shareware that does nothing but allow you to install unsigned *.msstyle files.

 

[JuryDuty]

SFang,

What on this site are you downloading? And what program do you use to make it work?

--Jury

 

[MHz]

Oh, I meant to post this instead.. has the explanation, yadda
http://www.lightstar1.com/install.htm

 

[SFang]

Originally posted by: JuryDuty
SFang,

What on this site are you downloading? And what program do you use to make it work?

--Jury

It is written on their front page:
"Before you install, please be sure to check out TGT Soft's Style XP (shareware -- free download) to make theme installation simple..."
Just click on the link, you are good to go. Or, if you are a XP geek, you may do it manually without the help of softwares.

To manually change the boot screen of XP, here is the
GUIDE.

 

[mtgcollector01]

I got the ferrari girl. By far the most eye-appealing.

 

[Miramonti]

<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff51">Free themes, awesome!

reg. themexp.org...it isn't free, correct?</FONT>

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: SFang
Found this website accidentally, totally awesome! Never imagined WinXP can be customized to be so beautiful.

Everything is free downloadable, Enjoy!

thetopthemes.com

Here is a guide to change the boot screen manually by yourself.

thanks sfang
worked fine for me and if you follow thr links on the bottom of the guide you can get a program that tinstalls it for you...it worked fine for my xp pro in ntfs

 

[kyutip]

Lay off the site people, it's really slow for me

I think themexp is a paid software, right ?

 

[bentwookie]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
very cool

been looking for some themes

thanks

 

[MMarks2]

Originally posted by: TheTechnique
This is really not a "hot" deal...

I disagree.

If you get microsoft plus it costs you 39.99 and that only has 4 themes.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Awesome looney toons startup and ferrari girl logon.

Thanks for this deal!

Now to work on my themes.

 

[MHz]

Gonna say it one more time. Go here and there's no need to use $20 shareware that will expire, and suck up resources while you use it, to run unsigned themes.

There's your deal, save $20 by replacing 2 copies of uxtheme.dll

 

[SFang]

Originally posted by: MHz
Gonna say it one more time. Go here and there's no need to use $20 shareware that will expire, and suck up resources while you use it, to run unsigned themes.

There's your deal, save $20 by replacing 2 copies of uxtheme.dll

Good catch! Didn't know that before. So, the TGT StyleXP shareware will expire, that sux.

Will do some research on your link patching. Thanks.

 

[Cybordolphin]

OK.... I downloaded the REAL free shareware.... now point me where I go for THEMES!!

Pretty cool thanks!

 

[MontyBurns]

The "test" theme that program installs -- one called Gumdrop -- is actually pretty cool itself.

 

[SFang]

Originally posted by: Cybordolphin
OK.... I downloaded the REAL free shareware.... now point me where I go for THEMES!!

Pretty cool thanks!

The themes and all other goodies are aligned on the top of the webpage like menu buttons. Click on them will direct you to each sub section.