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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-8a30081805b2f90b&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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