How to change your desktop

Pedro Amorim

Hello dudes and dudettes

I just finished moding my desktop, and after it i decided i would share how i did it with a nice tutorial for you to follow.

The tutorial is here.

http://www.pedroamorim.com/forum/deskmod/

dont know if this is anyusefull, but anyways. here you have it.

Zcubed

Thanks for the quick writeup. My friends are always asking me "Woah, is that Windows?" Now I can just point them to your guide.

Your replacer seems nice, but I've always found the Neowin Patcher to be the easiest fix for uxtheme.dll. Less clicking means that you're less likely to screw something up. You can also use something like Icon Tweaker to further customize your icons.

Pedro Amorim

i used this replacer because im using home editon of xp, and somehow everythime i used the neowin patcher it never worked.

yeah. icon tweaker could be cool to change some icons that are software related like .rar one.

hehe

here's a shot of the entire desk.

greenj2

Looks cool man, I used to use a prog called Aston Shell (i think) a long while ago. Until I realized it was hogging about half of my system resources.

KDR_11k

Desktop? I thought that's called a window manager.

Pedro Amorim

you say tomato i say tomato. :P

notman

lol, funny... people try to make Linux look like Windows and now Windows users are trying to make their desktops look like Linux

Pedro Amorim

lol. at looks better than your regular windows of the box

snemmy

hah!! i make my windows look like my Mac

Justin Meisse

huzzah, windows rebooted gave an error message that uxtheme.dll wasn't a windows image and refused to load the shell, luckily I could reboot into safe mode with command prompt and restore the backup that way. I'm using WinXP Pro

Michael Knubben

If it's the neowin patcher, that happened to me a few times as well. I've never had any such issues with just replacing the .dll though, so if you're allready doing that, i can't help.

Justin Meisse

I used bitmap's method, afterwords I used the neowin patcher and it worked fine. I freaked because I was waiting on an important email!

Pedro Amorim

one question. do you have SP2?

Justin Meisse

Yep, no hard feelings though, I'm a computer tech by trade so as long as I can still access the data on my harddrive I'm fine. Luckily your technique made a backup of uxtheme.dll so it was a simple to fix.

The moral of this story, make a backup of uxtheme.dll if you're going to do any patches or anything and then try any method that works for you

Pedro Amorim

well said