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    better Visual Styles for z w/ low resolution

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Driftingbottle, Dec 15, 2008.

  1. Driftingbottle

    Driftingbottle Notebook Guru

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    I always feel the taskbar and title bar in xp of my z(resolution 1360*768) is relatively wider.The default visual style of xp is also felt cheap.

    I find a better visual style in my friends pc, and install them in my z.
    wow, it is much much better and more beautiful than the default one of xp, looks more profrssional.

    plus, narrow taskbar and title bar allow little more real estate for me to work on my z.

    If you guys are interested in it and want to try, let me know, I email to you.


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    Driftingbottle Notebook Guru

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    I just want to explain to the guys who want to try and have already received my email of visual styles.

    The Styles.rar includes two visual styles and one Patcher that was used to Crack UX theme.dll of XP.
    You run the *UX theme patcher.exe* first to complete the cracks, after that you pc needs to restart.

    There are two ways to apply the visual styles
    1. Simply double clicks the *.msstyles in files, *Display Properties* will pops up, just click the *ok* button to apply the visual style.
    2. Copy the files of visual styles to C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes
    Then you can select each of them in *Display Properties*, click the *ok* button to apply the visual style.

    Both the two visual styles are narrow taskbar and title bar, I like both of them.

    Good luck.