Emulating Vista on XP

i now have the best Mac OS X Emulation i can get. Now that im finished with that, i want to start a Vista emu on another user account. So, can someone help me do this?

i have windowblinds5

i just need the most perfect skin for it out there, and if possible, a search bar that works (far from expected, so dont worry if you cant find one)

i also have thoogie's (hope i spelled it right) sidebar, so thats good. I guess thats it? i also want to make my desktop icons the exact ones like Vista. can this be done with a replacement of shell32.dll? like what flyakite OSX did? i think this is all i pretty much need, so thanks in advance!

#448327

lol windows emulating windows, haha

Do you have the Vista Styler TB? You'll be needing that, it comes optional with the installation of Styler.

#448330

ok, thats something to put on my list. anything else?

EDIT: ok, so what about WB themes?

#448331

WB themes...

Well, there was a good one a while ago, but MS asked the author to remove it (it was that good ).

The following are decent WB Vista styles:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/326647...h+age_scale%3A5

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/514266...h+age_scale%3A5 (screenshot looks misleading on that one)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/424228...h+age_scale%3A5 (I think that that one's better than the real Vista style)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/370925...h+age_scale%3A5

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/416360...h+age_scale%3A5

#448397

I got bored and made a Vista desktop too.

I used: Butch123's skin and Vista Transformation Pack (the Flyakite for Vista transformation); and AveDesk.

#448399

cool. will look. please keeps the recons coming

edit:

also, is there a way to modify the shell32.dll with Vista transformation pack?

well not only that, but like all the icons like FAK does

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WAH!! now that i know i can emulate Vista, i dont wanna give up my Mac Emu for it :(

WAHH WHAT SHOULD I DOOOO?! :P:( i can always make another user account, but still, i loose all the explorer icons and stuff if i do this what....should....i do....

#448426

Go linux. Once you go Tango, there's no going back.

#448434

here is the vista skin Im using.

its beautiful.

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Also if you have itunes theres a nice taskbar-miniplayer here to match the new theme.

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#448464

for the apps

http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83

for any other info

http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?showforum=87

that should just about do it, since almost every possibility has been explored there.

#448734

I'm using the Windows Vista Inspirat RC1 visual style. It's absolutely gorgeous and near perfect.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39791165/

The download itself is quite big (23.3MB) because it comes bundled with a whole lot of things - icons, styler toolbar, PNGs for Avedesk, logon screens, wallpapers - basically everything you could possibly need to emulate Vista. But you can very easily apply only the VS if that's what you want.

#448770

if i use Vista Transformation Pack, then will i lose some of my OS X emulation stuff?

sort of need a quick reply...:slant:

#449538

Check this article out: Make XP look like Vista

#449543

Yes, you will. If you use the pack at http://www.windowsxlive.net you WILL lose the Mac OS X stuff.

#449612

oh darn :. maybe i can partion off my 200GB hard drive and install windows XP again on that? so this way i have 2 different Windows partions, one for OS X emu and one for Vista? hawabout that?

#449626