Windows XP Ultimate Update

Windows XP Ultimate Visual Style. (A variation of Seven VS)

• New Taskbar Background
• Colorful Taskbar Buttons
• Shellstyle (less memory usage)
• 32 and 48-pixel icon support
• Aero and Basic Substyles
• Wallpaper included

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Leopard 7 Visual Styles

Leopard 7 Visual Style for Windows XP  (An update to Leopard for Windows XP)

Changes:

• Taskbar (No Search Icon)
• Taskbar Buttons improved
• New Windows 7 orb

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Aero 5270 v 1.1 Windows XP Theme

This is a almost complete port of the newest Windows Vista Aero style (without DWM). It includes:

• 3 Styles:

1. Vista Startmenu 32: For use with the normal iconsize, no icons and usericon on the right side.
2. Vista Startmenu 48: For use with the big iconsize, no icons and usericon on the right side.
3. XP Startmenu: Icons and no usericon.

• 1 Styler Toolbar
• 5 Wallpapers
• 1 WMP Skin
• The used fonts

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Luna Element V5.1 Black Windows Theme XP

Thanks to em3 for giving me permission to finish and release this skin. And thanks for the help while I was working on the skin.

As a long time LE fan, it’s very cool to release my own version and share it with the rest. Some parts are made by em3 though so I cant take credit for those parts.

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Luna Element v5.1 Blue Windows XP Themes

Luna Element v5.1 Blue, is a Windows XP visual style and is inspired by the WinXP default theme Luna. A few parts are still in original design so I can’t take credit for everything. This theme is also inspired a little by the Windows Vista GUI. It’s a nice combination of old and new in my opinion.

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Windows 7 PDC Theme for Windows XP

As we know Windows 7 beta build has been released. Windows 7 contains a new GUI. New taskbar, new startmenu, new Explorer, etc. You can take a look at following review which includes almost all new features in Windows 7.

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Creating a Windows XP Recovery Kit

Finding your Windows XP operating system damaged can be a painful experience. We will not be able to do our daily activities with the computer anymore before finding the way to recover it. If you understand Windows XP, you can follow the detail to perform certain task that will allow recovering from any Windows XP failure no matter how bad it is.

There are two possibilities of the problem location in the Windows XP troubleshooting. It may be with Windows XP or may be with the hardware problem. The best way to recover from it is by having an XP Recovery Kit that will enable you to get your computer up and running in minutes rather than hours. This kit consists of the back up of your entire hard drive. You need disk imaging utility such as Drive Image by Powerquest and a backup medium such as a CD Rom writer, a DVD writer or a second hard drive to create your own Windows XP recovering Kit.

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Disable Windows XP Boot Logo

You can speed up the boot process with disable Windows XP splash screen. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start - Run.
2. Type msconfig & click OK
3. Click boot.ini.
4. Place a check mark in the /noguiboot checkbox.
5. Click OK

After these steps, when you reboot your PC, you’ll see the Windows XP logo has disappeared.

Rundll32 Commands in Windows XP

Windows XP contains a file rundll32.exe that allows command line access to certain functions. To run code listed below you can create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter “code” in the location field.
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Change the Windows Default Installation Path

Sometimes when you add components or software to Windows XP, the Windows installation files are needed. Windows XP will prompt for the installation CD. To facilitate the process, you can copy the i386 folder on the CD to you local hard drive and change the registry, so that XP will look for them automatically.

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