Is Style XP only way to use quality WinXP skins?

[LOLyourFace]

Err.. I ran out of their free trial. I can't believe they charge for the skins. Is there any other similar programs like that out there?

 

[Ender]

Crack it?

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: Merkon
Crack it?

Can a guy even read his own signature?

 

[Heisenberg]

Download the UXTheme Util on tgtsoft's site. It will patch the actual dll so you don't need to use StyleXP at all.

 

[LOLyourFace]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Download the UXTheme Util on tgtsoft's site. It will patch the actual dll so you don't need to use StyleXP at all.

really! NICE!

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Download the UXTheme Util on tgtsoft's site. It will patch the actual dll so you don't need to use StyleXP at all.

What exactly does it do?

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: thawolfman

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Download the UXTheme Util on tgtsoft's site. It will patch the actual dll so you don't need to use StyleXP at all.

What exactly does it do?

It "patches" the dll (uxtheme.dll) that takes care of the theme's in XP to allow third party themes to be used. You run it, it creates a new dll, you replace the old one (it's actually stored in two places- c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\system32\dllcache) and then you're done.

Edit: Link It's the last one on the page.

 

[GoodToGo]

I am a new user of XP, please give me links to both the sites please. Thank you

 

[JayPatel]

tweakxp.org has really simple tutorial on hoow to patch the dll, its much easier to follow than the tgtsoft's readme file

 

[LOLyourFace]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: thawolfman

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Download the UXTheme Util on tgtsoft's site. It will patch the actual dll so you don't need to use StyleXP at all.

What exactly does it do?

It "patches" the dll (uxtheme.dll) that takes care of the theme's in XP to allow third party themes to be used. You run it, it creates a new dll, you replace the old one (it's actually stored in two places- c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\system32\dllcache) and then you're done.

Edit: Link It's the last one on the page.

I ran the patcher and doesn't work, rebooted and still doesn't work.

 

[CrowDog]

I go here for my skins and I use windows blinds. The theme by the name of Graduate is the one I use most.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: thawolfman

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Download the UXTheme Util on tgtsoft's site. It will patch the actual dll so you don't need to use StyleXP at all.

What exactly does it do?

It "patches" the dll (uxtheme.dll) that takes care of the theme's in XP to allow third party themes to be used. You run it, it creates a new dll, you replace the old one (it's actually stored in two places- c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\system32\dllcache) and then you're done.

Edit: Link It's the last one on the page.

I ran the patcher and doesn't work, rebooted and still doesn't work.

Then you need to do it manually from the recovery console. That is what I had to do.

 

[Heisenberg]

Then you need to do it manually from the recovery console. That is what I had to do.

Yeah, that should work.

Doh, I forgot - if you're running XPSP1 the one from tgtsoft might not work. Last I checked they hadn't updated it to work with SP1. There's one available that will work - hang on let me look.

Edit: The link to download it is here.

 

[LOLyourFace]

nice everything works now!

now I need some L337 SKINZ