I got you some themes and installer packs that mod/tweak and change every bit and byte of your Windows XP’s installation to give it a fresh new look, interface and other down enhancements that are just waiting to be enjoyed!
mac aquafy look
FlyAkiteOSX is an installer pack that converts your Windows XP box into a real mac one. It deploys various features from the dashboard to the Flurry Screensaver with a Tiger Look - it’s all the goodies plucked from a mac.
Contributed by Lash
Download FlyAkiteOSx and aquafy your experience!
Wake up, you’re in the mac world with the FlyAkiteOSxthe ++’s for mac
Finder is to Mac what Windows Explorer is to Windows. Uncluttered, use of different skins, search-able and customisable makes NeXPlorer the best emulator of Finder for Windows.
You won’t be feeling envious anymore of the QuickSilver for the mac. AppRocket bundles a minibar that sits nicely at the top of the screen allowing you to quicky launch any programs with it.
get Vista’s Aero look
No need to wait for Vista to enjoy the great look of the Aero interface. No need indeed to upgrade your pc for some bucks. Keep your money, download the Vista theme and enjoy everything that the Aero’s interface has got to offer.
Contributed by my great friend Anoop
It’s in the air, it’s Aero
compact, sleek and minimalist interface
XP Energy Blue 2 provides you with a compact, sleek and concise theme with the ultimate experience of the media center look and feel.
Remove the icons and the theme is light as nothing else
You download Blackbox for windows, you extract it and click to launch. There you’re, on another planet with the most minimalist look and feel.
Contributed by Shane
Download the best one which is BBLean
Launch by clicking on blackbox.exe once extracted
choose your shell and your interface
Aston allows you to change your Window’s shell and set you to another interface be it MacOSx, KDe or Vista. It also bundles a default Aston shell, great and candy!
More info can be obtained from Yashakun online.
Contributed by Yashvin.
List of more enhancement shells
This article contributed by Kyu lists lots of more of those installer packs that greatly enhance your Windows XP look and feel.
Please contribute any great looking packs for our Windows installation through the comments below. A special thanks to all those who did so above and through whom we’re enjoying those great packs. Pay them a visit when you’re wandering around.
This post is an updated version dating from May 2006. It’s updated when new themes and mods are unleashed.
nice theme there!
i’ve been modifying the look of my XP myself over the past couple of years, i am constantly changing themes and stuff! too cool! much better than Microsoft’s crappy themes they offer - lol.
Did u know that over than the theme, u can also change the BOOT SCREEN - the LOGON SCREEN - and also the WINDOWS INTERFACE? you should try these also - gives your pc a very personalized feel.
i myself am using a BMW boot screen, a MAC OS style logon screen and MAC OS interface at the moment
check out this site :http://www.themexp.org - you get everything you need there to change the look of your xp - have fun!
LaSh
@ Lash: hey dude is that link alright, seeing you talking about MacOS, I quickly grabbed it, landed on the site, made a search for MacOS, got the search results and downloaded the one saying for MacOSX, the installation starts, to my amazement forces you to install all sorta spyware and adware, but I say I’ll let them do that bad deed, I just want to see that MacOS skin shining on my XP……after the ’so called’ install nothing happens, so I said they must be kidding, I went to track it up from my installed program, and to my astonishment, what do I see? nope theme but just a little screenshot of the MacOS only……..gahhhhhhh…….did you got through that you also????
@ Lash: hey thanks by the way dude for the link, hey I also got some for your mod of that XP: >> check out this stuff <<
I know a BETTER website where you can download :
1.) Downloads.com
OR
2.) Download.com
Try it :
it is specially meant for other people rather than me ( I personally use Ares ) …
Hello hans
btw, for the MAC OS theme, i didn’t get it from themexp. I downloaded it via torrent, it’s a whole pack that makes ur usual windows looks like and feel like ur actually using a MAC - but which retains the usual windows processing behind, really cool - let me know if u want it.
and yea, i know about wincustomize too, pretty good stuff there also.
@ Lash: hey Lash that would be too great if you could get me see this…..pop the link here…and I’ll update the article above to include it(full credit to you of course)….because that seems too rocky : changing the whole interface………
hey for the themexp.org : have you ever got something clean from it? I think I’m gonna remove the link because you know this site seems just a little mad house of spyware and all sorta malware ……if you don’t see any inconvenience in this….
and great thanks for proposing this fun stuff
@ Anoop: thanks dude for this link but you see the link above for the Energy theme is from download.com itself…so this seems a bit duplicate man…..
Well this is strange I was doing a search for mauritian blogs and came accross your site. What I find uncanny is that I am also called Hans, I am also Mauritian (albeit born and bred in London) and I work in the I.T industry! Weird…
Cool…….
In the world there are many Hans and that too involved in the IT sector…
Too bad…
You are not unique …
By the way I’ve downloaded the theme of Longhorn & Vista …
@ Hans: hey ya mane another Hans in here, that’s too great and another dude from the techy world, now that’s too too great…thanks for the visit dude, hope that it was an enjoying one….hey mane grap my RSS link and be updated with fun new stuffs dude…..I will soon post something on the mechanism of this BlogoSquare itself…..wha’t my primary purpose about it and I’m sure you gonna enjoy…sorry for that late reply btw………my friends and I were just too much enjoying ourselves on Hi5….hope to see you back on the playground
see ya 
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, I can say only that, my great friend Anoop just pop me something of a theme which called itself Vista, we didn’t take the thing of a serious as we know how much rubbish we can find on the web so we weren’t that excited to see what that pack was about….I just installed it this afternoon and oh my goodness, it’s soooooooooooooooo good, everything just feel and taste like Vista itself, Aero is clothing my computer, yes Aero itself not joking dude, and that’s sooooooo beautiful, I just feel like sticking to my computer….The menubar,taskbar, all the menus resuming all the interface just has got the great look of that Vista, sleek and fluid as one could imagine…I’m just enjoying that great sensation……….I’m just feeling as if I’ve installed Vista and going to pick out the new stuff of it….but no man come on earth it’s really WIndows XP itself…unbelievable as it is…and this thanks
too much to much friend Anoop for sharing this stuff with me….but as usual we will pop it here
where we have got this directly in the post above…..by now just tell yourself you will feel more relish
afterwards…….
ssup Hans?
long time i didnt stop by ur playground - finally got some free time for myself.
here’s the link i was talking to you about : http://osx.portraitofakite.com/
go thru it - the page will load u immediately in a mac-os-like interface. u can go to the download section from there on. give it a try. it’s only 30mb and really worth it. u’ll take some time to get accustomed to it - i did too. and wot’s even better, is you can merge the mac-os theme with other windows-themes. makes great personalization.
have fun dude.
@ Lash: thanks very very much dude for contributing this great stuff…before I continue up, congrats for your team, they really played well especially that super fired by Gérard
I will just go and check that link…hey dude btw I also got the theme for Vista…too greata feel just like on Vista itself pumping that great Aero
This stuffs was thrown by my friend Anoop 
I think for that I will just pop a whole article….it’s only too great…thanks for the visit again pal…I know what it takes to have a blog and keeping the visitors coming up and hope you are getting to manage yours peacefully……..see ya 
Hello there ,
Hope u got all the 4 messages without any hassle .
Hey Hans there is no need to download this 30MB theme …
I’ll download it & bring it on Monday ( u know why ) …
I take back all the ill words I said about Lash…
He is a good guy …
Hey Lash …
Thanks dude for link ..
Really rocking this theme …
Hans has already tasted this .. ( in com room wiz his favorite teacher )
Thanks once more Lash
no worries peeps
ur welcome
@ Lash: ur always welcome in here dude, suiting a BlogoStar suit now……how do you find the new article modding???? It’s part of my BlogoBox v.1.0 project! Hope you will really enjoy it! This part as you see will track up all our favourite themes that can suit that XP of ours….and your’s for the Mac has done so too greata well, we can only say good about it…..i’m just still like you said trying to get used to it but you know now I feel much more to sit at that pc of mine and sometimes really working at it…even for my computing project……even that Pascal window shows so nicely and each time when something pops up, those quicky sound plays it….ahhhh to great dude…………just enjoying
Well mates, microsoft is still striving for its xp users to buy Genuine Product. The mischievous nag “You might be victim of software counterfeiting” can now be fixed. Crackers have claimed that this message can be killed through several ways. They have also claimed that it took them only 24 hours. You will now be able to benefit from windows updates
:)
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/workarounds-to-disable-non-genuine.html
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/microsoft-genuine-advantage-cracked.asp
@ Yasir: hey dude sure this is just a message that can be killed like that but you know it’s Micro$oft and that won’t work just simply like that…you know for updating the windows they really checked whether that copy is genuine and only after the check that they will allow you a good share of those new updates so preventing them from checking your version is somewhat a bit ?????
hey these pieces of information are accurate!! did you read the articles or u just predicting like that grrrrrr…
hans: yo man je vien juste de voire sa man tro tro bon man, mais parconte tous tes en englais zut zut (6) … je conpren kedale, il faudra que tu méxplique sa man
, he man en passen je suis en train de chercher un logieciel de conversion un truc pour convertire un wma en mp3 man, bain si t’en conait un fait moi signe 
..alé Astalavista man
@ John: yo man tkt maintenant ton ordinate s’est fait un look Vista, t’en dit quoi? veux pas la lacher de si tot maintenant
haha
hey yo whee y en a ta, tu sais pour le moment, j’ai tas trucs a faire mais quand j’aurai du temps peut-etre depuis semaine prochaine, j’y vais t’envoyer un pti article(comme celui du torrent) pour t’expliquer le truc
astalavista mane
Hans: he yo whaiiii man tro coll
Non man j’ai pas envie de laché se look, whait ok man pour ton p’ti revue sur les truc sur vista… he man sinon pour le logiciel de conversion, mes moi au courant pour sa si tu a trouver man, j’ai extra extra besouin de sa man pour ma psp, parceque la seul inconvénient sur sette console man c que il ne prand pas en charge les wma et l’autre inconvénient c que si tu ve métre une pusse pour joue au jeu piraté man c comme si tu baisé ta psp man, c un peux prét comme tu ma dit la dérnier foix, de ne pas me servire d’internet explorer sur mon pc, tu voix man……
Man excuse moi pour le moment j’ai pas tro le tenp d’entré sur mon pc, j’ai des devoire de ouff man tous les soire j’ai des devoire sur chaque matiére que j’étudie dans la journée c tro gore man ;( … alé man a+++
@ john:
yo couz whee sûr : “to bizin mange ar sa l’education la mane” mette sa ar li mo croire to dernier l’année toi aussi la, faire n maniere : mo conner li rode mette sa ar toi mais pas laisse li mane 
hahaaaaaa toi qui bizin mette sa ar li, apprane bien et ki conner to cav vine n mari bon reviewer de jeux. franfran ena dans bannes revue to lance la et mo demande moi ki surprise/cocktail to reserve pou sa revue lors doom la
yo mane non la revue ce sera sur comment faire pour convertir wma > mp3, un pti rapidos comme on le fait entre potes
aufaite mane parlant de revue, n gas to section bobox ine avoye moi n mail mari bizairre li dire moi arete avoye li commentaires sipaqui
pas gagne comprend aufaite cequi li pe rode dire mais couma dire li encolere, hey bizin veille to banne cam mane sotte pe dechaine lors mo boite au mail 
hahahahaah
ok mane pas tracas pour conversion, couma mo dire toi depi fin de semaine ou semaine prochaine mo pou fini mette sa ar li, moi aussi ena n tas travail mane
yo looka à la vista maintenant et ca sonne comme to astalavista
hahaha ale mane pas mette lamain dans caleson letemps to guette to ordinateur maintenant mane 
astala VISTA mane 
ok man, whai man pour l’école la man oui mo dérnier année la man saméme mo bizin mange r li la plinty plinty
…., he whai pour vista la man mo méte un fond écrant qui al bien r sa tro tro bon man….. he whai man pour mo cam bobox ti éna un ti enbroulle a la manier française man, li ti p faire fosse r moi.. enfin sakine ine faire fosse r so cam man :dizzy: …. Alé man VIVE LE STYLE VISTA ET VIVE BLOGOSQUARE MAN…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA lol.
Blackbox for Windows is also another option. For that minimalist nix* look maybe
thx for the stuff Shane wooooooohhhh, I’ve got the bbean stuff, hey dude that’s incredible that stuff : no installation : just a click and pop everything changes. I couldn’t believe my eyes, that was impossible, never seen something like this, without any installation in a fraction of second changing that whole lotta of interface
the mac was a whole lotta appro 30MB but that some 600KB : again unbelievable. They hacked Windows, yeah they did it
too fun. I’ll reload the article above to include that precious stuffs : too great
thx for making the way to here
hope to see you more often 
Glad you liked it Hans
I’ve tried Flyakite, but not others. This post is surely worth a bookmark
I dugg this article, I’m as attackr on digg… add me as your buddy
@ Thilak
Done, you’re on my buddies list. Thanks for bookmarking =D
LOL almost done working on my black box theme. as soon as i get home i will finish it and i will notify you. lol Aston rocks too!!!
yo. some time since this has been updated. well i have some more content to put in here
see here
Okay okay, thats many. from the list, of particular interest,
first off there is Talisman. Wow, that isn great, can have themes, and plugins add functionality, i perso like the applebar theme
Sharpe (untested) seems cool too
@ Kyu
THanks for this marvel kyu. I’ll be trying them out soon and tell you my favourite.
add more theme for free download