Skin Windows XP to look like a mac
Ramblings December 12th, 2006Back in the good old days before I had the money for a real Mac I, like many others, had to put up with Windows. It wasn’t great, but it worked… just. The point is, it did most of what I needed at the time.
Although I was happy to put up with all those little annoyances, i saw no reason why I should look at an ugly interface while I waited for my PC to crash — I wanted a pretty GUI.
As I was fiddling and installing things I wrote a short guide and bundled it with a lot of the software I used. Having rediscovered the Zip file I thought I’d post it up for anyone who wants to give it a go.
I found that most of what I did had little impact on the speed or performance of my PC so it’s preferable to something like WindowBlinds.
*BE WARNED*: The software is probably out of date so you might want to grab the latest versions of it all.
“Download the Tutorial”:http://thescri.be/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/windows_cust.zip
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March 6th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Would that be a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing or mutton-dressed-as-lamb? The closest metaphor I can think of is when I was 8 I tied bit of plastic on the spokes of my bicycle so it sounded like a motorbike. It was no substitute but made me feel good in my naivety.
March 11th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
mutton-dressed-as-lamb I think. I don;t reckon your metaphor is quite accurate in this case. While having a bicycle that sounds like a motorbike might have made you feel good, it will have had no “useful” effect.
The desk I’m sitting at right now was, when I bought it, covered in scratches and looking very worn. Although it still functioned fine as a desk it was pretty distracting. It’s much more pleasant to sit at now that I’ve sanded out the scratched and stained it. The same was true of my PC.