most beautiful themes for windows xp

Do you know what I hate most about Windows XP? It's look. It's painful combination of blue and green. So one of the first thing I do after every Windows install is patch the Uxtheme file so that I can apply a visual style of my choice. I hope you are not using the default theme, are you?

The following is a list of some of the choicest visual styles that can give Windows XP a total makeover. Pick any!

Note: This list contains only shell styles that can be applied directly by patching Uxtheme or through StyleXP. No Window Blinds skins here.

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Watercolor Arrow - This theme looks so cool with a light colored taskbar, blue menu and funny hand-drawn type icons.

Wood Visual Styles - Transforms everything to wood! This theme is tested in Windows XP SP2. A few people reported problems with SP3. (This theme is no longer available. Sorry.)

Kupo XP 2.0 - A very minimalistic design available in 5 colors.

 

Luder -  Another minimalistic theme with a clean green look.

 

Aurum VS 1.1 - A bit of Vista's Aurora look.

 

Delta VS - A silver gray theme with mild colors.

 

DUO - A mixture of Vista and Mac.

  

Ubuntu XP - This is the closest Windows XP can get to Ubuntu! Brilliantly done.

  

Simplebox - This time it's Fedora. (This theme is no longer available)

Clearlooks Gummy - This theme pack gives a "Gnome" look to Windows XP. Available in 14 different colors!

  

Cadoo Visual Style 1.0 - A smooth whitish theme that gives a great contrast to any icon set.

  

animus -  A Mac like blue and white theme that works great with Mac icon set.

OSX Tiger V - Give Windows the Mac look. Very nicely done.

Leopard X - Another Mac theme with a slightly darker look.

VistaPerfection X4 - One of the best looking Vista theme for Windows XP.

Dream LH 1.0 - Another theme with the Vista look, but darkish and black  explorer window and task panel.

EX2008 Visual Style - A darkish theme with a tinge of green. Very minimalistic.

SlanXP 2.0 - Another dark theme for Windows XP.

GAIA - A very simple yet elegant theme with mild colors.

Greenius.VS - Another beautiful green theme. (Green seems to be the preferred color for designers)

P.S: This is how to install the themes:

1. Download and install Uxtheme patcher. During install a message will be displayed that important Windows file are being replaced and will ask you to insert the windows CD to fix it. Just ignore and click "continue"

2. Download the theme pack and copy the folder containing .msstyles and shellstyle.dll (this is inside another folder) to C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\

3. After this is done, right-click on desktop and click Properties. Now click on the Appearance tab. UnderWindows and Buttons you will find the list of all the themes you installed. Select one from the list and click Apply.

Sometimes, the downloaded pack contains additional utilites like Styler and Rocketdock etc to bring other changes to Windows. It's up to you whether you want to install the additional stuff. You can visit the original page of the theme author for more instruction on how to use those.

MAC OS X LION TRANSFORMATION PACK FOR WINDOWS

Apple Mac Lion is the latest OS from Apple .It provide beautiful desktop,inspired features on the iPad, screen applications, bars hidden self, Mission Control, among others.This transformation pack will change Windows XP/Vista/7 to a new Apple Mac Lion OS.Many features ,Graphics,Style are improved.


The visual changes that the program applies are extraordinary, and the user will feel like you’re working with a Mac OS X.

Installation is very easy.Just click on exe file.After installation restart your OS.






Click on below button to download for windows xp

Mac OS X Lion theme for Windows 7 | 

Install

1.Two options available
a,Quick Installation
b,Custom

2.You can select Features to install
a,Disable etc features if you need.You will get faster start up and speed.Enable:Slow start up and slow speed.But better Appearance.

3.Restart Twice or Thrice .After first reboot you may have some problem [Start menu-You may get old Windows XP start menu and Task bar]. Restart again and again until you get mac menu.
Features 

1.Transparent Windows (Graphics card and Good Hardware configuration for full effect )
2.Icons
3.Windows
4.Dock
5.Finder bar
6.Finger
7.Mac search
8.My board
9.My space
10.Left sider
11.Rocket dock
12.UberIcon
13.Winexpose
14.Yzshadow
15.Winroll
16.Mac os LION sounds
17.Application sounds
18.Welcome screen
19.Wallpapers
20.Control panel
21.Scroll bars

Screenshots 
[credit- sibin xavier,7chip]

1.Desktop

-Stylish
-We can disable RocketDock features
-Right click on the triangular icon on Dock/click on Dock settings

2.My computer


-New icon set
-New Side bar
-Animation effects (Zooming effect when we open folders)

3.RocketDock-Control Panel


-Easy access
-Control panel on Dock

4.Transparent Windows and Menus


5.Dock -Drive


-Select Hard Disk Drive/Folders directly from Dock

Download Mac OS X LION for Windows XP

Password Protect folders in Windows without any Software

Most of us have private data. Not all of us have a private computer to keep that data. So, we just end up with other people viewing that data. Although password protecting software do work, it is almost useless to hide private data with these software(because we are always questioned as to what it is that we are hiding with the help of these software).

Hidden folders do not work as they can be easily searched with Windows Search. So, we need an alternative way to create hidden password protected folders which only we can access. And that is exactly what we will learn in this post.

With this trick, you can create a secure password protected folder in Windows which no one except you can access. To use this trick, follow the instructions given below:-

1.  Open Notepad.

2.  Copy and paste the exact code given below:-

cls

@ECHO OFF

title www.arjunckm.blogspot.com

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST MyFolder goto MDMyFolder

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure to lock this folder? (Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren MyFolder "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to Unlock Your Secure Folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%== www.arjunckm.blogspot.com goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" MyFolder

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDMyFolder

md MyFolder

echo MyFolder created successfully

goto End

:End

3.  Click on the File Menu. Click on Save As.

4.  Select All Types in the Save As Type dropdown menu. Save the file as *.bat or Locker.bat.

After creating the file, double click on the Saved file. A new folder will be created. Enter your data in the folder. Again, double click on the batch file. Type Y and press Enter. The folder will be hidden from view.

To re-view your folder, double click on the saved batch file. Enter password as "www.arjunckm.blogspot.com" without quotes and press Enter key. This is also the default password. Your folder will be visible again.

To change the default password, edit the part of the code given in blue and enter your own password.

The overall usability of this trick can be improved by deleting the batch file after hiding your folder and re-creating it when you wish to access your folder again.

If you face any problem using this trick, you can write a comment and I will do my best to help you.

Note: This works on Windows 7, Windows XP and Vista. First try this on useless data to be sure and then only hide your personal data.