Well, I've realized that I didn't like my old LBT theme because it just wasn't flashy enough. I decided to modify the default windows vista theme to include some LBT elements. Here are some screen shots:
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/t...album/shot1.jpghttp://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/t...album/shot2.jpgThe theme itself is rather mild. This is because I wanted it to really look like windows vista but I wanted it to also have an LBT touch to it. I could add more content, but I don't think it really needs it. I tried stretching the picture into the black area of the start menu as well, but it didn't look too good. I think it's just about perfect. Now, let's start on the instructions for applying this theme. First off, in order to install this you must use tuneup utilities. Before you go wining to me, I've made it portable which means there is NO INSTALLATION REQUIRED!
You may download the zip folder
Here. It's called "VistaLBT Theme.zip".
Follow these instructions to apply the theme sucessfully:
1. Unzip contents of zip archive to a folder or the desktop
2. Double click the tune up utilities program
3. Click on "Tuneup Styler2"
4. A window in some odd language will come up. Just ignore it and click the only available option
5. Under the section called "select a task", click on the very bottom option that says "Select a visual style......"
6. Click on "add" and then on "install visual style from file"
7. Locate the file you extracted called "VistaLBTfinal" and click okay
8. Select which theme you want from the newly installed themes (I recommend the Dark theme) and hit "apply visual style"
9. Wait a few moments when it applies and enjoy!
There may be some people who experience problems however. In some computers I tested this theme on, the program froze after selecting the theme. You may get something like this while doing step 7:
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/t...lbum/frozen.jpgIf you get a screen like this, simply wait about 5 minutes and then forcefully quit the program by trying to X out. You'll get an end now dialog box:
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/t...lbum/endnow.jpgGo ahead and end it. After that, just start up the system styler again and the VistaLBT themes should be in the list. Then you can proceed to step 8 and 9.
NOTE: I wanted to make the background part of the theme, but some may not like it and it would have made the theme file much larger than it already is. I've included the background image in the zip archive however and you may apply it after installation of the theme.
I'm not exactly sure why it freezes sometimes on some computers. My guess would be because I have a total of 6 variations of themes integrated into one msstyles file. That's over 10mb of theme files to load! Some computers just can't handle it and the program freezes. It's no big deal just so long as you let it stay frozen for a few minutes. Then when you restart the program all the themes are there.
After applying the theme, you may delete ALL downloaded files and all of the files you extracted from the archive. It won't make any difference. Then after tuneup utilities is gone you can change your theme in the appearance properties in your computer.
I hope you all like.
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