Feb 14, 2006

Want to face lift your Windows XP ...

You can install custom themes on your XP machine. For that you need to patchup uxtheme.dll under c:\windows\system32
When they sold windows XP, micro$oft didn't want you to have the ability to install any XP theme files. They made XP such that it will accept themes that digitally signed by them only not others. Google for uxtheme.dll and you will find one suitable for your XP installation. You can download uxtheme.dll if you running SP2 from here.

I got inspired to write this from this article.

To name a few, here are some links to download themes

http://www.getskinned.org/
http://bfarber.com/
http://interfacelift.com/themes-win/
http://skins.deviantart.com/windows/visualstyle/
http://www.crystalxp.net/ (might ask you to install additional software)

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