Customizing your Desktop: changing your Windows Vista theme

Vista gives you two themes to select from, your Aero theme and your windows classic theme. But how long do you stay without getting bored? Get new themes, and install them, before that, you need to follow this tutorial. More desktop customization, and my search for the free windows manager takes me to Styles XP. But, it is neither free nor is it available for Windows XP....So, my search continues until I find Code Gazer's VistaGlazz. Vista Glazz lets me install third party themes, visual styles for Vista (and the best part is, it is free..) Step 1: Install VistaGlazz and run the program.

Now select the second icon (the one that looks like a shade card (the tick mark will be not be present until you run the program once. Follow the instructions and you are all ready to rock. Step 2: You can find vista themes all over the internet. I prefer deviantART for all my desktop customization needs. To illustrate, let us use the Leopard 1.0a theme by Masterhack. Download the file by clicking on the links on the left of the page. Unzip the file after you have saved it. Copy all the files to the following folder on your hd:

C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

Click on the Leopard.theme and apply it. Done. Enjoy your new theme. Installation of theme should make sure that you no longer need to use Objectbar as mentioned in my earlier post which lets you make your desktop look like a Mac. This is how my screen looks like now. Top secret Geek stuff (what, the vistaglazz app does) It replaces three files on your hard drive (inside the windows/system32 folder) This enables you to add new themes other than the default themes which Microsoft has provided you with. These files are available for your version of windows at Within Windows IMPORTANT:

• The theme file is a rar format (a compression format similar to zip) . You will need winrar to unrar it (thanks to Sabrina for reminding me that I need to provide a link)
• This tutorial is only for Windows Vista. For Windows XP, I guess you don't have an option but to buy Styles XP.
• Do not try this tutorial if you have Vista Home Basic Version.
• In case you have already installed Service pack for Windows Vista, download VistaGlazz from here (instead of the link at the beginning of the post)
• There is a chance that things could go wrong and your computer could explode, implode, crash or become a black hole after trying out my tutorial. So, do it only if you know what you are doing and you are willing to take a risk.
• The author, website or anyone in this universe is not responsible for your actions after reading this tutorial, in fact, they weren't even responsible for your actions before you read this.

Windows 7 soon going to be out

Here is something, I thought Vista was newest one and there are sounds of a newer version just around corner...Makes me wonder why anyone should not bypass vista all together... Windows 7 or so it is called, should be out for 32 and 64 bit systems and I guess during development, it was codenamed "Vienna". And as usual it will out in consumer and enterprise editions..The new version should be out within the next 3 years I guess I really don't understand why Microsoft is in such a hurry to come out with the next version...I really think they need to give Vista some more time, after all people take time to move to the next operating system...It is not like a browser or an antivirus which people can upgrade every now and then.. Read about the idea to bring out windows 7 here... All trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.