whats the best vista-like theme?

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#1 ncderek
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#2 RayvinAzn
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I replied in your other thread regarding themes - it's probably a few pages back, but you should be able to find it easily enough.
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neat, but not very vista like. lil high tech for me. im looking for something like vista, but free and legal. i tried vista transformation, wondering if theres something like that that doesnt mess aroudn your system files too much
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neat, but not very vista like. lil high tech for me. im looking for something like vista, but free and legal. i tried vista transformation, wondering if theres something like that that doesnt mess aroudn your system files too muchncderek
I'm pretty sure UXTheme has someone that's done a Vista transformation pack (and you can leave Litestep out). Look around for them, I'm sure you can find one. It's a great way of changing the look of your system too, since it's not an actual skin, but a complete change to the Windows shell itself. Just make sure to back up the original UXTheme file, or you might end up tweaking something you didn't want to.
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I use the Vista Transformation Pack, it looks great and haven't taken any performance hits from what I can tell
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I use the Vista Transformation Pack, it looks great and haven't taken any performance hits from what I can tellZimpanX


how is vista transformation pack 6? i tried 5.5 a while back, i liked it, but it may have messed up some system files. how is 6? how close to vista does it look like? or how close to that pic on the website for the download does it look like? bc i know it doesnt have the aero glass things, what else is it missing? have you had any problems with it? thanks, maybe ill try this out again if its better than 5.5 was
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#7 bryan19929
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It doesnt have the glassy look as you said above.

I have a pc with Vista and another with VTP 6 and they look identical.

My VTP6 PC didnt take any slowness since the VTP6 install.

The pics that they show are right. The PC looks very similar to the pics.

EDIT: I used 2kglass to give it a transparent look, almost glassy like, thats why you see the taskbar transparent in the pics.
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#8 ncderek
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1- how would i back up system files so that if i had a problem with it i could just uninstall it and all my system files go back to how they were?

2- what kind of problems could a program like this cause, as in messing up system files? could it corrupt a harddrive or anything leaving me to reinstall windows? what are the possible problems?

3- it comes with the sidebar and widgets too? can you post a pic of your desktop?

thanks!
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#9 bryan19929
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Well:
1= You should use system restore and amke a restore point. If anything happens you can go back to that time.

2= Not sure, as long as you dont choose the change system files, you shouldnt have any problems that might make you reinstall windows.

3= I will try to post pic in a minute.
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Ok here you go. This is as big as my imagehoster would let me post.

EDIT: Oops, wrong code, here is the right one:



Oops, wrong code, here is the right one:
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#11 bryan19929
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Wrong code again, just go here:


http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/243776_Mydesktop3.bmp.html
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#12 ncderek
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thanks for answering my questions. im familiar with system restore, but is there a way to access it thru like starting up your computer? lets say somethig happens to my files and i cant get to my desktop on startup, is there a way to restore?

and you link isnt working, just brings me to the webpage you used to upload it, but no pic is there to see

edit- it works, thanks for doing that. so it comes with the sidebar? does it come with a lot of widgets too? what about that object bar?
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#13 bryan19929
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thanks for answering my questions. im familiar with system restore, but is there a way to access it thru like starting up your computer? lets say somethig happens to my files and i cant get to my desktop on startup, is there a way to restore?

and you link isnt working, just brings me to the webpage you used to upload it, but no pic is there to see

edit- it works, thanks for doing that. so it comes with the sidebar? does it come with a lot of widgets too? what about that object bar?
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No problem, Im glad to help :)

Well lets see, If anything happens during instalation (which there shouldnt because during instalation you are adviced to install in safe mode which reduces the chance of any erroes) when you start up your PC you can either start PC in safemode and use sytem restore  or uninstall VTP 6. All of this in safemode ofcourse.

If safemode doesnt work, you can use the "start PC with previous configuration of a succesful start" or something similar. You choose that option to start PC with the configuration of a previously time when it worked.
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#14 bryan19929
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Also, yes the VTP6 comes with the sidebar. You can then upgrade the sidebar to a newer version that comes with more, better gadgets.

The object bar on top no. You have to install that seperate.Search it on google.
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#15 ncderek
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awesome, thanks!
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