Editing Windows XP

[SAURABH]

ok you are fine in editing cars or making cars for nfs but have you ever edited a operating system like windows XP if edited what are the things you have edited.

[ToyotaWish]

Registry... Desktop...

My 'OSX' Desktop:

[Car Freak]

how u do that? wat else is there other than Mac?

[Sinister]

i prefer to skin windows rather than use "explorer"

runs faster too.

[ToyotaWish]

For OSX:

FlyAKiteOSX: http://www.flyakiteosx.com/

For Vista:

Vista Transformation Pack: http://www.windowsxlive.net/index.php?page_id=10

Go try both. You'll go for Mac.

[SAURABH]

I have edited a lot in windows xp.

1.I have made my own custom theme.

2.I have made my own progress bar.

3.I have made my own custom toolbar.

4.My logon screen.I can assign any wallpaper to logon.

5.My custom bootscreen.

6.My whole windows icons.

7.Style of copy,cut, you all have seen a nice style in windows vista when you copy a data.

8.I can turn a whole look of windows xp to flayakite osx without installing it.

 This all things i have done without installing any........ no softwares no transformation packs all are made by myself.:bigthumb:

[RiCkT]

i edited stuff in windows that is actually worth a dime, for modellers and artists..and not about the look.
my windows look is just luna, but you can sort stuff in the task bar, rearange stuff in the task bar, you can see thumbnails of EVERY file format, even text, you can close task bar items and windows by middle clicking on it, and i always use winbar, its essential to know how your PC is going.

- Rick.

[SAURABH]

My windows is customized with full of visual look which uses maximum of processor and ram but still my pc is going NOS with fullspeed its just because of all the visual look is made by me and not by installing any customization packs and by the way if you install something anything it will use your ram processor but if you dont install any customization packs you dont have to worry about the speed of your computer.My taskbar show
cpu usage 0%
pf usage 112 to 130.
When i am on dektop with full of visual look just like vista.

[Rafel]

How do you made it??
I only patched my system with Uxthem patcher and i use themes.

[Sinister]

blackbox  2% processing power
litestep 10-17%
XP explorer default 25-55% processing power
XP exploer w/ Windowblinds or equivalent 80-95% processing power.

hmm.
which would you choose.

[SAURABH]

Sinister i have choosed default.Seriously i am telling you the truth my windows is default i have made other extra visual widgets and sticked it to explorer.exe ok take a look of this screenshot this is not my perfect screenshot many things i have not included.I will be submitting a more heavy visualised screenshot i am working on it to get a best look with less ram and processor loss and i am telling you all i will surprise you all with my next screenshot.lets see this first....


http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t151/sam4225262/2.jpg

transparent taskbar
custom Icons
Progress bar and copy style
a heavy data is copied from my E: drive to desktop i have copied NFS carbon you can see it.

See the taskmanager:-my processor starts from 0 and goes to a maximum of 10% and my ram goes maximum to 115% isnt a great achivement.


As you all know if these all task are runed at a time.How much Ram and processor should be used.Just Guess
Save that image then view it to observe clearly.

[Sinister]

maybe share a little how you did it. i have a desktop that needs modding.

[SAURABH]

Ok i can tell you everything i know.firstly you have to download this softwares.
1.Resource Hacker.  http://www.soft32.com/download_3568.html
2.Any image editing software.(photoshop,paint shop etc)

These two softwares will do the job.Next step i will tell you wait....

[Sinister]

ah, yes resource hacker... pain in the ass if you dont know what you're doing.

it was nice to hack up notepad.

i've got http://wint.virtualplastic.net/hackindex.php i've used previously too.

[RiCkT]

blackbox  2% processing power
litestep 10-17%
XP explorer default 25-55% processing power
XP exploer w/ Windowblinds or equivalent 80-95% processing power.

hmm.
which would you choose.

i should be lucky...my mods dont take any cpu power :p

- Rick.