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Welcome to Windows XP Themes, where we collect links to some of the best themes, skins, screensavers, wallpapers and more, and we just added listings of some awesome website templates, including flash, phpnuke and post nuke, and some Microsoft Frontpage Templates.
As far as the themes go, we like the skins best, using WindowBlinds 5, which changes the look and feel of the Windows GUI by applying skins to the entire operating system, you can really change the look and feel of windows xp, windows 200, windows 98 and windows me. You can change the style of title bars, buttons, toolbars and much more. It gives you total control over your graphical user interface. This is why we like it better than themes, but, we will admit there are lots of really good looking windows xp themes also. Look around and be sure to let us know if you have any good links or skins and themes we do not. One website with loads of skins for WindowBlinds is wincustomize, thousands of skins, themes, cursors, wallpapers and more are availible. The three images at the top of this page are a good example of how good some of their skins are. These are the real Windows XP themes, and loyal users have created thousands of unique and intricut windows xp themes or skins.
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WindowBlinds 5 is a program that makes Windows into a fully skinnable operating system, more than windows xp themes, it changes the whole look and feel of windows. It allows users to apply visual styles that skin virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI (title bars, radio buttons, check boxes, scrollbars, explorer backgrounds, and so on). It is the Microsoft certified way of adding more visual styles to Windows XP. WB visual styles can be used on Windows 98, ME, and 2000.
WindowBlinds is a program that that enables Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows user interface. It does so by natively extending the user interface features of Windows to support enhanced visual styles.
If you have Windows XP, you're already half-way there. Windows XP includes a basic visual style engine that WindowBlinds is able to extend and accelerate to provide more features, optimize its memory usage, and improve its performance.
If you have Windows 98, ME, or 2000, WindowBlinds 5 delivers full visual style capability to those OSes.
WindowBlinds is part of Stardock's Object Desktop suite of desktop extensions.
Excellent application compatibility. Because Stardock has had years to tune WindowBlinds for compatibility, WindowBlinds 5 has excellent compatibility. How good? Ask Microsoft, Nintendo, nVidia, ATI, and many others who have licensed WindowBlinds to release additional visual styles.
Top Notch Performance. WindowBlinds uses the graphics acceleration features of today's video cards to accelerate visual styles.
Tight Integration. WindowBlinds is so tightly integrated into Windows XP (and Windows 2000) it can even skin the Windows command prompt. Only WindowBlinds makes this possible.
Native. WindowBlinds doesn't "skin" over the Windows GUI. Instead, it actually handles the painting for the application. This allows WindowBlinds to skin virtually every control. On Windows XP, for example, WindowBlinds can actually stylize more controls on more programs than the bundled msstyle engine.
WindowBlinds 5 also now skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI that one can imagine. And in fact, the enhanced visual styles used by WindowBlinds can skin things previously not thought to be skinnable such as logon/logoff dialogs, the "please wait" dialog, backgrounds in the Control Panel and other special folders, and more.
WindowBlinds also comes with clean and easy configuration dialog. Users can still control their WindowBlinds enhanced visual styles from the display properties dialog, but the WindowBlinds configuration makes it easy to manage dozens of skins, sort them by category, and configure it to their liking.
WindowBlinds gives Windows XP users, for the first time, a say on how big their Windows XP start bar is. Now users can set how big they want their Start bar to be.
WindowBlinds visual styles support skinning additional small aspects of the Windows XP user interface such as mouse-overs on the Start menu.
WindowBlinds supports a feature called "Hyperpaint". Hyperpaint uses the extra video RAM on your video card to "buffer" your windows which makes moving them on screen possible without any repainting.
WindowBlinds 5 lets users define what double clicking and right clicking on the title bar do. This can translate into significant productivity gains for users as they can perform various actions with a single or double click to the title bar.
Stardock Skincast is a way for users to add new visual styles to Windows right from the appearance dialog or WB Configuration dialog. It automatically downloads the week's featured visual style and installs it.
WindowBlinds can change the color of any visual style on the fly. While there are thousands of existing WindowBlinds visual styles, this feature allows users to take those visual styles and tune them to their own tastes visually. The same is true about gamma adjustment and even gray scale. A user can even invert the colors of a visual style.
WindowBlinds allows users to have different visual styles on different applications.
Before & After. Same applications. WindowBlinds can skin non-theme aware applications.
WindowBlinds 5 can skin non-theme aware applications. Windows XP is designed to only fully skin "theme aware" programs. But WindowBlinds 5 can skin even non-theme aware applications fully while still maintaining a high level of compatibility.
WindowBlinds enables users to change the Windows progress animations to one of their choice. Users can even mix and match their visual styles and their animations.
WindowBlinds can change the toolbar icons of Internet Explorer and Explorer.
WindowBlinds works by extending the drawing APIs of Windows to support additional features. These features are designed to provide new functionality, improve performance, and be seamless. WindowBlinds does not hack any system DLLs, it doesn't replace any system files. It follows the Windows programming guidelines which is why Microsoft awarded it its designed for Windows XP logo certification.
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| Living Coral Theme and Screensaver |
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Living Coral Theme and Screensaver Living Coral beautifully displays an animated undersea ecosystem, with beautiful tropical fish, turtles, starfish, urchins, manta rays and even a few divers in the background. Combine that with the most tranquil music you could imagine and you will find yourself transported into an undersea sanctuary. The full version includes a beautiful theme pak with wallpaper, icons , cursors and screens that will transform your desktop into an enchanting underwater world. This will make a wonderful windows xp themes for your collection.
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Instant Theme Creator takes the hassle out of creating desktop themes. Many other theme programs are difficult and confusing to use, this one isn't! It's written specially so that anyone can make their own desktop theme within minutes, whether they're a "power user" or it's their first time. There's a full user guide included and a dedicated e-mail address for technical support issues! Make creating your own windows xp themes very simple and easy.
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Now the software comes with complete access to the members-only Support Site, with a wealth of information about creating your own themes - invaluable!
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Theme Creator Gold is a powerful theme creation utility. It not only makes theme creation fast and simple, but also contains added features to help you manage your themes. You can instantly compress all the files your theme needs to a single Zip file. You can load themes which you have made previously and make changes to them. You can even create a self-extracting program file which gives your theme its own installation program, so you can pass your own favorite windows xp themes and skins to your friends!
Visit our website at http://www.salted.com/theme/ to check it out.
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AC Cobra 427 Theme is about one of the most successful creations of Shelby Caroll, a well-known American racer and a businessman. Being an expert in sports automobiles tuning, back in 1965 he noticed model 427 of a small English firm, AC. After operational development, to which this simple and reliable sports car was subjected, such successful qualitative changes took place, that the car is still for sale. No doubt, the automobile of the 60s has been repeatedly and considerably modernized during its long life, however it is always recognizable and beloved by its admirers. Another great windows xp theme.
Visit our website at http://www.xdyne.com to check it out.
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| Alfa Romeo Spider 3D Theme |
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Alfa Romeo Spider 3D Theme Having already five generations of ancestors, Spider a model of an Italian firm Alfa Romeo is a successful example of a modern car with a moderate sports concept. It means, that developers and manufacturers have received rather a cheap, economic and technological model by applying base units and technology of the mass car; however, due to dynamic and running qualities it has an absolute right to be considered a sports car. One short statement is enough for amateurs and connoisseurs of the car to gain respect for the model - it is the fact that it was designed by the famous firm Pinninfarina. One of my favorite windows xp themes.
Visit our website at http://www.xdyne.com to check it out.
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Another program using XP Skins is XP Visual tools a product from CronoSoft! As the new operating system from Microsoft is here, Windows XP, and not all the older programs can take advantage of the new features of skinable option, this program can change with one click the entire look and feel of your operating system, wether it's windows 95, windows 98, NT or XP. So, here it is: XP Skins !!!
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Cursor XP Cursor XP integrates tightly into Windows, providing you with additional tabs on your Mouse control panel in order to access additional features. You have many options available to you via the 3 tabs provided by Cursor XP.
The first is to improve the look of your cursor. Through use of alpha blending, transparency and other effects CursorXP allows amazing graphical cursors, both static and animated.
You can also add special effects, which can be activated on a variety of actions such as clicking. Different effects can be attached to different actions.
You can also add trial effects that follow your cursor as you move it. With windows you could only add a cursor ghost, but Cursor XP provides much more flexibility.
Cursor XP comes with several themes built in, changing your theme is easy. All you need to do is to select your choice of theme from the dropdown list, and click ‘Apply’ or ‘OK’.
Before Cursor XP there was little visual excitement to be achieved through moving your cursor or clicking buttons. Cursor XP brings a range of special effects that can be associated with button clicks, and much more than the standard Windows cursor ghost.
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