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Vista Aero on XP
Some of you may know that there are several good Vista-Transformation-Packs which gives the new Vista-style to Windows XP. The best I know is the BricoPack Vista Inspirat which I’m using. I thought “hell yeah, that’s how Vista looks like”. But it isn’t. After a few months when I came to the pleasure in actually installing and using Vista on my Notebook I saw how different Vista really looks so I got jealous.
I didn’t want to install Vista on my Desktop PC so I searched for alternatives: True Transparency.
This little tool adds PNG support for the frames in Windows. And since PNG supports transparency, a real Vista Skin is possible (Ok, there is no blur-effect like on Vista, but that’s anyway useless). You have absolutely no performance loss! Just a few applications which have their own style system (e.g. Trillian) start to lag. But you can add exceptions for TrueTransparency in the “exclude.dat” file.
And just a hint: On this site I linked (www.crystalxp.net) you’ll find other really interesting stuff.
Nice skin. and is that msn on the right side of the pic?
That’s Trillian, running ICQ,AIM,MSN,IRC,XFire and GTalk.
ok. will maybe try it. will save space on my HDD.
tried both and they are awesome once together.
even replaced my old vista skin (made with style xp because I could have many skins including mac’s one ) because this one is better and the other one wasn’t working with windows XP SP3
Just a little thing incase you want a real Vista look.
I’ma point you in the direction of “windowsxlive.net”. They’ve got their Vista Transformation Pack at version 9 and it’s ridiculously close to the real thing.
Thank you. I’ll try this! I personally like the Brico Pack Vista Inspirate 2 + TrueTransparency but I’ll give that pack you mentioned a try!
THAT’S ALOT OF GAMES! Is that real Vista or a pack?