Getting some of Vista's functions on XP

Hey guys,

Been looking at some video's on Youtube of converting XP into Vista. Looks interesting!

Some parts of Vista I don't like. Its probably a case of me liking XP due to being very familiar with it! But I do like the look of Vista along with the widget's.

Has anyone had experience with it here? Can I just install the Vista look along with the widget option? There are so many options, dunno which one to go with!

 

Its mostly visual changes and changing the organizations of the start menu. It will cut down on you PCs performance.

 

Really??? I thought the perk of doing this was you retained the XP OS performance for gaming etc... And just had the bits of Vista you like overlayed onto XP? Obviously im missing something here...

 

You can easily make XP look like Vista. Also you can just download 3rd party widgets that you can have running if you need those.

 

I assume you want the Vista Transformation Pack?

 

I used the vista transformation pack and it was garbage....slow downs and freeze ups...not worth it....either buy vista or be happy with xp...

 

Try Windowblinds. That's what I use. Microsoft is also okay with the product and certifies it as compatible. The company that makes Windowblinds also has something for widgets. There's actually quite a few programs for widgets, though I think most use yahoo widgets. There's some more threads on this if you run a search.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=52791

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=110302

 

The big difference is that Vista has memory optimisation for running Aero, sidebar and stuff, while XP doesn't. I really doubt you will be getting the same perf as Vanillia XP/Vista with Aero off

 

Welcome to Vista!

 

Forgot to mention that windowblinds has not bogged down my system at all. It runs just as well with windowblinds as it does without. I've been using it over 4 years on two different laptops (both laptops had XP).

 

LOL

I've heard of the Vista transformation pack, can you just select what parts of Vista it will install? Im not interested in the Aero interface, sounds too much like a gimmick that slows your machine down. All I really want is the Vista "look" along with the widgets. I don't want it to reorganise my interface and start bar into Vista, I don't like the way Vista works.

Im not a fan of Yahoo, I don't know what it is, I've just never liked Yahoo...

Btw, thanks for the input guys.

 

Why not make Vista like XP instead?
You can get the "Classic" start menu (right-click the start orb, properties, classic).
You can get the "Classic" control panel too. And turn off Aero if you want... or just turn off individual visual effects.
You can turn off UAC and Defender to make it almost as insecure as XP (not quite though because you still have Address Space Layout Randomization).
If you don't like desktop search you can turn off the search indexing too.
And I don't know if you can actually uninstall the new bundled programs like Photo Gallery, Windows Calendar, and Snipping Tool... but you can certainly just not use them.
And you can set the power button in the start menu to shut down instead of sleep or hibernate or whatever the default is.

However, I don't know of any way to downgrade the audio mixer/volume control to be like XP's.

Still, there are a few things that annoy me about Vista:
- Explorer no longer has the button to go up a directory level... you have to click on a path component instead.
- The disk defragmenter lost its cute progress display. (I hear it's coming back in SP1 though...?)
- The network connections control panel ("Manage network connections") is too hard to find.
- I can no longer set "Take no action" as the default action from the AutoPlay dialog that comes up when I connect a USB device... I have to go to the control panel to do it. (It is easy to do there though.)
- And the worst by far... I've had some stability issues... Vista crashing and Firefox crashing... I'm meaning to try out the perf. & reliability hotfix, but I haven't done so yet.

 

LOL,

vista inspirat by crystal xp is the way to go.

Idk why, but after i uninstalled vista inspirat, i still have the vista theme lol. (which is good, because i don't have all the resource hogging "features")

 

HA HA....no way. XP MCE for me on my machines....its great

I would not use anything else....