Pimp your desktop

[Bazf]

Ok first off you need to get Windows Blinds

Get Windows Blinds Here

If you do not have WinRar, you will need it to open Windows Blinds

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Get this

WinRAR 3.70 beta 2

That is the program that means you can get other skins for Windows, from sites like these...

http://www.wincustomize.com/

It has a hell of a lot of stuff to change your desktop, just have a look around it

BootSkins CursorXP DesktopX Objects DesktopX Themes DesktopX Widgets IconPackager Logons Misc. Icons ObjectBar2 ObjectDock Rainlendar RightClick Screen Savers ScreenShots Suites SysMetrix WallPapers WinAmp WindowBlindsWinMedia






I found that after I installed WB, that the skins did not work directly through the program, so what I did was..

Right Click on the Desktop

Bring up the Display Properties

Go to Appearance

The skins that you have downloaded from the site, should be under Windows & Buttons, that was how I got mine to work



Docks

To get a dock, the things that look like they belong on a mac, go to..

http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock

I tried using the ObjectDock, but it was pretty awful in my opinion, this one is really easy to use.


Drag and drop the icons you want on and off the dock, the normal windows icons will look rather sh*te, so go to these sites for nice, pretty looking high res icons

http://www.customxp.net/images/PngFactory/index.php

http://www.crystalxp.net/en.htm

Edit to add - http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/invader.aspx

Those 2 have alot of the normal icons you need, plus Limewire/uTorrent etc, it had all the ones I needed anyway

Download these icons to a file that is easy to get to, desktop etc

To change the icons in the dock, right click on the icon you want to change (in the dock) go to Icon settings and find the folder you downloaded the icons to (desktop etc)

Should look nice and new, you can play around with the positioning of the dock and the look of it, if you go to Dock settings, again right click on an icon

Backgrounds

http://www.deviantart.com/

That is the best site I have found for background images, I'm sure there are a lot around though!

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/

http://www.adni18.com/

Widgets

Don't use them myself but

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Hopefully that helps a little about, how to do it...there are other people on the thread who have done it different ways, if you want me to add how you did it, just say so...

One more thing to get rid of the old icons on your desktop and to just have your Dock & Background Image..

Right Click on your desktop

Go to Arrange Icons By

And UNclick Show Desktop Icons, should get rid of them all, if you want them back to Click it again


If I have missed anything let me know


You should end up with something like this...

[WillowTheWhisp]

I once had a 3D desktop with different rooms and all the folders were in drawers which you could open. You could put your own pictures on the walls and the stereo would play tracks from your music folder. You could even go for a walk outside and at night the sky turned darker. It did take up a lot of space though and eventually I dumped it.

[fc:stanley]

i used that alien thing and changed my whole desktop looks good but i dont like the alien idea is there any more sites like that which do a full skin and theme thing?

[SamF]

Not a fan of winblinds myself, plus the way I've done my desktop is a bit more legal.

http://www.nicmyers.com/media/Univer...her%20v1.2.zip

Download it, run it, restart comp.

Go here:

http://browse.deviantart.com/customi...=9&alltime=yes

Download a theme you like. Double click the .mss file you like.

[SamF]

Oh, and here's my desktop:

[fc:stanley]

ok thankyou ill try them out

[Bazf]

Just did mine its plain but a start.

[fc:stanley]

Looks great how`ve you done this im confused :S

[Bazf]

Got the picture and set it as a background.

Yahoo widgets, just put on the ones you want.

Or port dock, which gives you all the things on your desktop as a shape like my radio. (bottom right).


To get rid of the old icons on your desktop and to just have your widgits and Background Image..

Right Click on your desktop

Go to Arrange Icons By

And UNclick Show Desktop Icons.

Good Luck.

Attempt 2

[Joe]

Nice Desktop Bazf.

Shame it's a Liverpool theme.

[Nickelson]

here is my desktop

its windows vista stlye theme run on XP MEDIA EDITION

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3...desktopsj3.png