How do I make XP look like this?

[Braves]

http://www.bigosoft.com/?inside=aimplus.php

I can get the silver theme, but how can I make the icons (close, maximize, minimize) buttons small like that? I want the silver theme but I hate how the buttons are so big. Just want them small. I have stylexp, but I hate using programs like that to adjust it, isn't there an option within xp to make those small?

 

[Fastball]

Linked

 

[baisezmoi]

go to display properties, appearance, click on advanced. then click on caption buttons and adjust the size from there. 🙂

 

[Braves]

i JUST saw that... lol thx 🙂

 

Also, check out Style XP. Very cool for custom themes.

 

[Braves]

I'm content with the silver theme. Just one more thing though... why are the icons in my tray so freakin small! Same with my quick launch bar

 

[trmiv]

<< I'm content with the silver theme. Just one more thing though... why are the icons in my tray so freakin small! Same with my quick launch bar >>



Same thing happened to me when I adjusted that captions buttons setting. That's too bad, because it made those buttons the perfect size, but all my quick launch bar buttons are absolutely tiny.

 

[Braves]

yeah, it reallly sucks 🙁

 

[baisezmoi]

<< but all my quick launch bar buttons are absolutely tiny. >>



unlock your toolbar first, then right click in the area of your quick launch bar. right click, view and select large icons. presto you now have large icons. 🙂

 

[Valhalla1]

...but what if I dont want big fugly OSX wannabe icons? I like the silver XP theme with small window buttons but normal small quicklaunch and systray icons.

I want to be able to customize each and every aspect of how my os looks.. which is why i like Litestep and windowblinds. 😀

 

[SaturnX]

You can also just shrink the font size the the title bars, that shrinks the Minimize/Maximize/Close icons. That's what I did, it was just too large for my liking.

--Mark

 

[Lockelar]

And how does one change the color of their start button if they change to another theme and that theme doesn't change its color?

 

[neuralfx]

heh every time i see XP it looks like KDE to me .. that looks suspicously like the Platinum theme or whatever it is in KDE .. hm ..
-neural

 

[trmiv]

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<< but all my quick launch bar buttons are absolutely tiny. >>



unlock your toolbar first, then right click in the area of your quick launch bar. right click, view and select large icons. presto you now have large icons. 🙂 >>




I did that, and I got hideously massive icons on the quick launch bar. They were the size of desktop icons :disgust:




<< heh every time i see XP it looks like KDE to me .. that looks suspicously like the Platinum theme or whatever it is in KDE .. hm ..
-neural >>



Really? I don't think so. I run Madrake with KDE and XP on two computers connected by a KVM switch, and I don't think they look that similar. I actually like the XP look better, I think it has a more polished look. Plus, the KDE icons are ugly.

 

[Lockelar]

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<< but all my quick launch bar buttons are absolutely tiny. >>



unlock your toolbar first, then right click in the area of your quick launch bar. right click, view and select large icons. presto you now have large icons. 🙂 >>




I did that, and I got hideously massive icons on the quick launch bar. They were the size of desktop icons :disgust:




<< heh every time i see XP it looks like KDE to me .. that looks suspicously like the Platinum theme or whatever it is in KDE .. hm ..
-neural >>



Really? I don't think so. I run Madrake with KDE and XP on two computers connected by a KVM switch, and I don't think they look that similar. I actually like the XP look better, I think it has a more polished look. Plus, the KDE icons are ugly. >>



As stated above:



<< You can also just shrink the font size the the title bars, that shrinks the Minimize/Maximize/Close icons. That's what I did, it was just too large for my liking.

--Mark >>



I performed this operation and everything looks perfectly fine now. My thanks to Mark.