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gobygoby
03-07-2006, 04:09 PM
I have seen screen shots of peoples custom desktops/toolbars/icons.....how do you do this..I assume there is an app for this?

Thanks:redface:
Rankenphile
03-07-2006, 05:02 PM
print screen + open MSPaint(or photoshop, or GIMP, or...), new document, ctrl+v.

Voila.

Edit: just realized you might have meant custom toolbars/icons, not how to take a screenshot. Lol. There are a number of programs out there that do this, such as WindowBlinds (http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/). There are others out there, do a bit of searching in Google and you'll find a few.
gobygoby
03-07-2006, 05:18 PM
print screen + open MSPaint(or photoshop, or GIMP, or...), new document, ctrl+v.

Voila.

Edit: just realized you might have meant custom toolbars/icons, not how to take a screenshot. Lol. There are a number of programs out there that do this, such as WindowBlinds (http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/). There are others out there, do a bit of searching in Google and you'll find a few.


lol...ya I know how to make a desktop...:D

I wanted to know how to make custom start bars, icons,....

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.
jdbnsn
03-07-2006, 06:02 PM
www.9down.com has a few as well.
r3n0z
03-08-2006, 02:23 AM
well i use UXthemepatcher (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=140707) to display custom windows skins. It allows you to use unsigned visual styles by patching the UXTheme.dll .

you can get the visual styles from here (http://browse.deviantart.com/skins/windows/visualstyle/)

and i think you can make visual styles using StyleBuilder (http://www.tgtsoft.com/) and whatever your favorite image editing program is, I recommend the gimp
OvRiDe
03-08-2006, 09:56 PM
StyleXP from http://www.tgtsoft.com/ is what I use.. Its pretty painless and doesn't eat up a ton of system resource. As for styles, there are LOTS of sites dedicated to them. Google search for "visual styles" will probably give pretty good results..
gobygoby
03-08-2006, 11:13 PM
thanks everyone! cant wait to get something slick going on with my desktop :)
Aero
03-09-2006, 12:10 AM
Keep in mind StyleXP is only a trial though.
gobygoby
03-09-2006, 09:20 AM
Hey while searching for skins I came across "spyder bar" this is a pretty cool little app. Any one els using it?
OvRiDe
03-09-2006, 03:07 PM
Keep in mind StyleXP is only a trial though.

Very true. Nice thing about StyleXP, its pretty affordable at 20 bucks. So if you like it, it won't break the bank.. :)