make my pc purdy.

[Dan Dare]

i got a new pc this weekend, i was wondering if theres a site or two to make the deskstop a bit better looking than the usual windows xp shebang.

[Jordan]

Whats wrong with standard XP looks? I have the media center theme. You can get it from MS or just google it. Its called "Royale".

[Offerman]

www.themexp.org

[Raining_again]

has anyone ever had problems with these theme mod programs?

Ive had themexp, and tune-up utilites, both resulting in my pc to take about 15 minutes to log on.

ive got windows blinds on it now, which works fine, but just a tad slow.

edit
heres the linky: http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

[Shorty]

Anything that covers your styles instead of replacing them will slow your computer down badly.

I suggest TGTSoft's StyleXP (http://www.tgtsoft.com/prod_sxp.php) and then getting Visual Styles from the Windows Utilities skins section of deviantART. You can actually just modify a .dll file somehow to avoid getting the software first but that's a bit more risky.

[Mr_Odwin]

You can actually just modify a .dll file somehow to avoid getting the software first but that's a bit more risky.

That's what I did, it's dead easy and I've had no problems.
Here you go. (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/UXTheme-Patch-For-Windows-XP-SP2-Final.shtml)
Then you just get the style files from deviantART as Shorty says. Stick them in c:\windows\resources\themes or something.

[Marshmellow]

yah whenever i think windows needs to look better i use windows blinds like what raining again mentioned

[Shorty]

yah whenever i think windows needs to look better i use windows blinds like what raining again mentioned

Windowblinds is, unfortunately, one of those programs that covers instead of changing. So it sucks a lot of RAM and slows down your system. I'd seriously consider applying msstyles instead.

[RoadKill]

Do the UXTheme.dll patch for the love of god and install your own msstyles.

[AshMat]

Windowblinds never slowed my pc down...

[Offerman]

I rarly change the Theme anywho, just the Log-On screen and wallpaper.

[Raining_again]

Windowblinds never slowed my pc down...
windows blinds slows my pc down a tad, but its not really noticeable unless ive got more than 6 or so programs open. (with 512mb ram) i had more problems with themexp, had to use a system restore point to save it.

[Hellfire]

Ive tried some shells asides from the windows one, even if they look good they slow down the PC and theyre usually not very useful, interface wise.

[mike-zim]

i have never really bothered. if anything i would take a picture from my digital camera and load it. but i dont really look at it long.

[AshMat]

I used to have logonXP but it really slowed down my logon screen, you can get a bootscreen skinner aswell but god knows what that'll do to your system