iexist Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 (edited) I was just wondering if anyone customizes their desktop. I've gotten a little into it as for visual styles and changing up my icons, but I havnt gone as far as that. They have alot of programs out there to use to make your desktop look all fancy...peep it. http://www.neowin.nethttp://www.deviantart.comhttp://www.wincustomize.comhttp://www.customize.orghttp://www.aqua-soft.orghttp://www.advancedpc.org Those are my sources for this. [edit]GUIDE TO CUSTOMIZING XP.CLICK FOR THE GUIDE. Holla back. Edited September 24, 2004 by iexist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Used to use WindowBlinds & Icon Packager but I got tired of them eventually. Messed with ObjectDock for some time too, but again, got tired of it. All I'm using now is the Royale theme, official XP theme. Basically though I wasn't happy with how sludgy and unresponsive my PC felt when these apps were in use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixologist Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Hey Dee, where cna i get the new theme, and also, How do you take screen shots again? F12? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 To take screenshots press the Print Screen key to the right of F12. Then just open an image editing program and hit paste. You can dowload Royale from here........ http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/9/3/9-3-42.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixologist Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 oh ok swweet thanks sig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 7, 2004 Author Share Posted August 7, 2004 any of you know where to find some app icons? Im looking for some for soundforge, vegas, adaware, adwatch, window washer. i found some that were in *.png and i converted them with some icon sushi program, but when i changed the size of the png in photoshop it fucked up the image.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Some Ad-aware icons: Edited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 8, 2004 Author Share Posted August 8, 2004 ahh yeah, pimp. thanks dee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 17, 2004 Author Share Posted August 17, 2004 Neowin.net Forum's Visual Style Hall of FameFor those of you who are unaware of visual styles or cant find the goods. Peep it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 20, 2004 Author Share Posted August 20, 2004 I just wanted to post this screenshot of my customized desktop. I finally cleaned up my system and got everything running smoothly and finally got it to look the way i wanted it to. So peep it. word? screenshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 Here's mine........... DESKTOP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 20, 2004 Author Share Posted August 20, 2004 tite man! post some more screenshots people! im out. i be back when im at work! BRIGHT AND EARLY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 I'm just uploading a shit load of icons in a rar file if you want them. Give it about 20 minutes and then you can download them HERE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 Best place I ever found for icons was wincustomize. I used to have Icon Packager on the PC always, and there's approx. 400 icon sets on there I think. Also check out ObjectDock. I like this a lot but I found it uses more resources than my old machine could afford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 20, 2004 Author Share Posted August 20, 2004 I'm just uploading a shit load of icons in a rar file if you want them. Give it about 20 minutes and then you can download them HERE.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>what icons???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 Sigma, those are terrible! If you want dope icons, check Jairo Boudewyn's stuff. Most of his icons can be found here: http://www2.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?c=1&AuthorID=149320 These are .png's mainly for ObjectDock, but they usually always contain icons too. Icon Packager sets: http://www2.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 20, 2004 Author Share Posted August 20, 2004 fuck a *.png. everytime i try to download a single icon, its a png. i have a program to convert pngs to ico, but its pretty bunk and cant load any images larger than 128x128 pixels. BUNK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 There are some alright ones in that rar file man! Some are shit, some aren't I just uploaded the lot to save fucking about. I only use 9 of them and they are the ones on my desktop. I use the classic view for the start menu so fuck changing all the icons in there cos they're all tiny anyway. That Jairo guy makes some nice icons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted August 20, 2004 Author Share Posted August 20, 2004 GUIDE TO CUSTOMIZING XP.CLICK FOR THE GUIDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easydrop Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Here is my desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 You got the same bin icon as me. :49_49: Where's your Start button? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chee Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Isn't it the apple logo? It's a pretty popular theme, the old Mac-on-Windows look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted September 5, 2004 Share Posted September 5, 2004 I see you use ObjectDock, easydrop. I used to have that on my machine but I didn't like it using resources. Shame though cause it's a cool app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iexist Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 just thought i would add this nice wallpaper site. peep it! http://www.sexydesktop.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seith Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 i remember back in my ol' 486 days, i screwed around a lot with shells and stuff, found this nice one, calmira, made win 3.x look like windows 98, only it ran faster than 98! loaded up faster, shut down nicer, cut load times by not taking up as much resources, it was so good when i upgraded to a p200, i installed 3.x instead of 98 and set up calmira on that instead, super nice! wish i had the link to that shell though... better than icky program manager "load up my laptop with pro tools/and program manager, ha"-Braintax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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