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Vista Transformation Pack 7.0

This is probably the most important thing in this tutorial, this pack has all basic things for the transformation:
ViStart  The program that perfectly emulates the original vista startmenu.
Styler  Application that gives the explorer a vista feeling.
Visual tooltip  Shows a tooltip of a running program over start panel.
Blaero Start orb or ViOrb  Shows a full start orb in the start panel.
Thoosje's sidebar<  Gives a vista like sidebar to your desktop.
L Clock  Shows a vista like clock and calender in the start panel.

Other features of VTP7

Vista Sound scheme
Vista system icons
Wallpapers
Visual Styles
Cursors
Boot screen
Logon  etc.

Download Vista Transformation pack:

http://www.windowsxlive.net/?p=1119 

Looks like enough, but there are other small things that give you XP the vista feeling:

Visual styles
Best Visual style (msstyles) Vista VG ultimate: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/57715902/?
qo=3&q=VistaVG&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5 
 Best WindowBlinds visual styles: WhiteFlame:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42710127/?qo=0&q=by%3AKayeirene&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma
%3A24h+age_scale%3A5    
Vista 2.1: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34673977/?qo=2&q=by%3AJemaho&qh=boost
%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5  
(WindowBlinds info: http://www.stardock.com/downloads/  )
Applications to make Aero glass without WindowBlinds:
 Vystal: http://www.download.joejoe.org/comment.php?
dlid=331&ENGINEsessID=128f4ca241a65e4949ea3009d8560c6b 
 FastAero:  http://www.uploading.com/en/files/7OFQB0OH/fastaero0751.7z.html 

Vista Flip 3D in XP

 TopDesk 1.4 (free) http://www.live-share.com/files/165253/TopDesk_1.4.1_Retail.exe.html 

 TopDesk: 1.5 (shareware)  http://otakusoftware.com/topdesk/index.html 
ShockAero: (free)  http://www.docs.co.kr/download/Setup_ShockAero.exe 

All Original Vista Wallpapers: http://www.wstaylor.net/vista_walls.htm 

Windows Media Center:

(If you are using MCE 2005 you don't need this)
MediaPortal (open source media center):  http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ 
Vista like skin for media portal:  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50107998/ 
 Nero Home:  http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/nero7-demo.php 
Vista skin for Nero home:  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/51813895/ 

Explorer plugins
 Favorite links menu:  http://tomseffect.com/ 
 Vista adressbar:  http://quizo.at.infoseek.co.jp/freeware/indexEn.html 

Other Applications
Windows Media Player 11 (Genuine Windows required):
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx 
Best windows media player resource pack: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/52704429/ 

 Internet explorer 7 (Genuine Windows required):  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?

FamilyID=9ae91ebe-3385-447c-8a30-081805b2f90b&displaylang=en 

Mozilla firefox: (alternative to ie7)  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/  

Best Firefox IE7 theme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4988 
Vista style Paint:  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50108602/ 

 Windows vista Games RTM (original vista games): http://jonnyw1989.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/windows-

vista-games-for-xp-update/ 
 Vista Games explorer:
V1:  http://rakshits.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/vista-game-explorer-for-xp/ 
V2 (possibility to add games):  http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1345 

  Windows Vista Sidebar RTM (original sidebar from vista): http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?

showtopic=485 
Welcome Center:
Glass:  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/57482271/ 
Basic:  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59194875/ 
Windows Photo Gallery: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37671793/?
qo=0&q=Windows+photo+gallery&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5 

 Vista system properties:  http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34766464/?

qo=6&q=vista+system+properties&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5 

Windows Vista original icons and pngs:

347 vista icons: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48227083/?qo=16&q=Vista+icons&qh=boost
%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5 
 347 Vista pngs: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48227438/?qo=10&q=Vista+icons+boost
%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5+in%3Acustomization%2Ficons%2Fdock 
Vista application icons: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59907934/ 
Vista RTM WOW icon pack: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/55102520/?
qo=0&q=windows+vista+orb+png&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5 

 And last but not least:

Dreamscene (Video, Animated wallpaper):
In Vista Ultimate there is a extra called dreamscene, it lets to use a video background as a wallpaper :
 Bsplayer (free):  http://www.bsplayer.org/ 
 VLC player (free):  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 
 Dreamscene animations: http://www.download.joejoe.org/index.php?
subcat=21&ENGINEsessID=ed88903b891fc1b378999cd0a516b489 

Other customization websites:

 Crystalxp.net:  http://www.crystalxp.net/ 
Joejoe.org:  http://www.joejoe.org/ 
Winmatrix:  http://winmatrix.com/ 
Wincustomize:  http://www.wincustomize.com/ 
Vistaultimate:  http://www.vistaultimate.com/ 
Wincert:  http://wincert.net/ 
Aeroxp.org:  http://aeroxp.org/ 
The Vista (RUS) http://www.thevista.ru/ 
Wintuning (RUS) http://www.windtuning.ru/  

Vistart (vista start menu)  official website: http://www.lee-soft.com/ 

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