Vista looking like xp

Maybe your office deployed Vista. Or, perhaps, you got caught up in the early hype and bought Vista. Wish you could turn back the clock and restore your beloved Windows XP? But all is not lost: You can give Vista an extreme interface makeover, tweaking it to resemble XP.

While supplies last, you can find boxes of XP on some retail shelves. And some system manufacturers offer XP downgrades with the purchase of a Vista Business or Ultimate license. To XP die-hards, the translucent windows amount to little more than system-slowing eye candy. Comments of a political nature are discouraged.

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Reply 10 years ago on Step 2. Reply 4 years ago. VistaGlazz is now confirmed malware. UXTheme is also confirmed to work with Vista. Just make sure you have SP2 installed on Vista. Unless you have a Restore. But you would have to press F8.

But if you do decide to to the diy way make a system restore point so if you crash up your visual styles you can revert back to when you did not tamper with them. Reply 9 years ago on Introduction. Reply 9 years ago on Step 2.

I like the vista theme but of course, xp is waaay better. Now I have 7. May the last dinosaur be with us. Reply 11 years ago on Step 4. Reply 12 years ago on Introduction. It appears to work with Windows 7. No no LasVegas, you have it allllll wrong, try installing Windows 3. I had it on a Pentium 1 mhz once, that was so fast that it corrupted itself and every time I wanted to turn it off, I had to reinstall it every time, which being a fast computer compared to what Win 3.

If win 3. The fact that your Win 3. It was more likely due to the use of a similar, but incompatible file system Fat32 instead of Fat When you install it, it wipes and formats the drive, to fat 16, so if it were due to an incompatibility which I'm pretty sure win 3. Might be wrong here IT wouldn't have booted to the desktop in the first place, which I must say win 3.

Some of it also operates outside of the original 64K base addresses. Win 3. I even remember a quote from Gates about then that computers would never need more than 64K I'm sure Win 3. He said KB not 64KB.

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