XP Themes that look like os X osX(apple)?????? free theme dll in here;)

[0roo0roo]

i've heard they exist, but apple being the ass that it is tries to keep em down. anyone know where i can get one?

decent themes are hard to get

btw anyone know if there are pc equivs to the mac screensavers? the ones that zoom and pan on high res images, kinda neat. that or the flurry one.

 

[Keego]

Stardock made a program that acted like the OSX bar thing. their website

 

[odz]

Right Here
Those are the best OSX themes I have found, and they are pretty darn good!

 

[Iron Woode]

try ThemesXP

seems to be having problems.

 

[0roo0roo]

but do any have the bulging animated start menu thing?

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
but do any have the bulging animated start menu thing?

There's a really cool program called Y'z Dock that you can use for that. I forgot where I downloaded the program from, but just do a search on google and you'll find it. If you go to deskmod.com you can find thems and icons for Y'z Dock

 

[Imported]

Studio-28 has some nice MacOS type visual styles..

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
but do any have the bulging animated start menu thing?

There's a really cool program called Y'z Dock that you can use for that. I forgot where I downloaded the program from, but just do a search on google and you'll find it. If you go to deskmod.com you can find thems and icons for Y'z Dock

yea, i have Yzdock and it emulates it perfectly, even though its a little buggy right now (memory problems) but overall is pretty cool. i forgot where i got it, but it ought to be somewhere, i think it was made by a taiwanese guy or something. try searching around

 

[vetteguy]

Since no one else has dared, I'll ask the obvious question:

Why do you want to make Windows look like OSX???

 

[Transition]

It's an intuitive interface. It has nothing to do with wanting to actually emulate the functionality of OSX, rather just to get the look and feel of the GUI which IMO looks fantastic.

 

[everman]

A lot of these seem like you have to pay? I don't think I"d want to pay for just the look...but that's just my opinion.

 

[LongCoolMother]

actually, i think most of it requires desktopx, objectx, and some of them style xp. i just put up a OSX theme and it looks really cool. they all have trial versions

 

[TNTrulez]

OSX sucks. . . and yes I have used it before for hours. . . still sucks. . .

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I like the way it looks, but thats coming from someone who is using OS 10.2 or Jaguar.

 

[LongCoolMother]

i also like the way it looks. the gui is beautiful

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: vetteguy
Since no one else has dared, I'll ask the obvious question:

Why do you want to make Windows look like OSX???

because i can?

i'd rather pick and choose how my comps interface is like then go with the default. i'm certainly not going full mac by buying one because i can't stand its weaknesses, one button mouse? gah!

but their o/s does have some nice points i'd like to use

 

[0roo0roo]

interesting article on the strenghts and weaknesses of osx interface

 

[ViRGE]

It's worth noting that Apple has some very nice copyrights on the interface(s) for OS X. So if any of these become popular, expect Apple to (rightfully) shoot them down like a balloon.

 

[0roo0roo]

actually apple is shooting all over the place they are over zealous like the riaa.

an article on it

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: everman
A lot of these seem like you have to pay? I don't think I"d want to pay for just the look...but that's just my opinion.

its free!!!

 

[0roo0roo]

ok well tried out the free dll, and well.. it works! u have to copy the file in dos ofcourse. to system32 and the i386 dir inside the servicepack directory

downloaded loaded the jaguar aqua theme, copied fonts into font folder, loaded yz's shadow for nice window shadowing/menu transparency, loaded yz's toolbar to skin explorer and stuff, havn't tried out yz's dock(resizing icon bar thingie), and enabled large icons on desktop in effects. looks pretty good so far.

also checked off clear text in appearance/effects, makes laptop text much nicer.


still looking for os x boot screens though.


i'm lazy so i stole his screen shot mine looks somewhat similar, missing the sys tray stuff, thats too hardcore. plus i like my default icons.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

I'm running the OSX skin in brushed blue mode. Looks fantastic.

 

[UNCjigga]

Even after installing the fonts and rebooting, the fonts still don't look right (I installed the SP1-uxtheme.dll from Windows2000 dual boot.) Everything looks right except for the fonts! What am I doing wrong?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: TNTrulez
OSX sucks. . . and yes I have used it before for hours. . . still sucks. . .

I don't like it either, I actually used it TODAY... and damn that freaking G4 is slow.. i dunno if it's the OS, but the machine felt sluggish.

I do like the LOOK of it though. very clean.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Even after installing the fonts and rebooting, the fonts still don't look right (I installed the SP1-uxtheme.dll from Windows2000 dual boot.) Everything looks right except for the fonts! What am I doing wrong?

hmm maybe go into display properties, appearances, effects and turn on font smoothing. i set it to clear font


btw, did u copy uxtheme.dll to both c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\service~1\i386?

sneaky windows keeps two copies.