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Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on March 06, 2002, 12:31:54 PM

after spending 4 years with my trusty Win 98 im am sick and tired of the look. it looks plain and dull. I like the new XP look allot, but I dont have XP

do any of you know where I coulkd get a win XP skin for win 98> Im sure No-one would know

yes im really bored....

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: ooseven on March 06, 2002, 12:49:05 PM

you know ....you could like me buy the XP up-grade for £179......................................

hmmmmmmmmmm

on second thoughs

anyone got that SKIN ?

LMAO

:laughing:

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on March 06, 2002, 12:51:10 PM

£179 isn\'t worth it, I just want the desktop items pictures thats all

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: videoholic on March 06, 2002, 01:43:00 PM

I bet you wear a fake Rolex that you bought off the streets.:D

I\'ll look around for you, but I haven\'t noticed anything in the past.

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: ooseven on March 06, 2002, 02:07:10 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Videoholic
I bet you wear a fake Rolex that you bought off the streets.:D
 

:surprised  SHHHHHHH!

;)

//ooseven tryes to hide his mikey shoes and Pokia moble phone ;)

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: mjps21983 on March 06, 2002, 02:13:23 PM

Nope, didn\'t find anything, why don\'t you yourself, look or search on the internet, what a thought!

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: nO-One on March 06, 2002, 04:18:25 PM

Try windowblinds, not the most stable prog though

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: Coredweller on March 06, 2002, 04:29:36 PM

Win98 "trusty"????  What alternate universe are you living in?

Every time my Win98 SE installation crashes or freezes, I want to pour mo-gas in the PC case and burn the damn thing down to nickels.  Then I remember it\'s the OS, not the hardware.  I have Win2000 installed on another partition, and it runs rock steady.  Why don\'t you scrap that Win98 and just switch to Win2K?  XP is unproven as far as I\'m concerned.

I\'ve tried a couple of shell replacements similar to windowblinds, but they were highly unstable.  I can\'t recommend that course.

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: nO-One on March 06, 2002, 04:33:24 PM

The only stable one is StyleXP (XP only) since it uses built in skinning abilites in XP, WindowblindsXP does the same thing but StyleXP doesn\'t slow the system down as much.

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: Disc 2 on March 07, 2002, 01:19:06 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Coredweller

Every time my Win98 SE installation crashes or freezes, I want to pour mo-gas in the PC case and burn the damn thing down to nickels.  

thats a bad thing mmmkay...?:)

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: videoholic on March 07, 2002, 04:01:44 AM

Style XP is great.  And they have a style for Mariah Carey.  Oh heaven.  Wait, I forgot, she\'s a fat pig...

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: CHIZZY on March 07, 2002, 05:41:16 AM

:laughing:

Vid, you couldn\'t be more wrong...


She\'s a fat CRAZY pig....

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: EmperorRob on March 07, 2002, 09:16:10 PM

I\'d still put my bacon in that oven.

But back on topic, If you\'re running Win98 you\'ll enjoy 2000/XP so much more.  Well , 2000 anyway I can\'t speak for XP, I never used it.  But supposedly it has the stability of 2000.

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: Agnino on March 08, 2002, 11:16:55 AM

Dont consider WinXp if u dont have at least 512MB ram. For me, Win98 works just fine :) Win2k is too unstable when it goes to gaming.

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: nO-One on March 08, 2002, 01:35:01 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Agnino
Dont consider WinXp if u dont have at least 512MB ram. For me, Win98 works just fine :) Win2k is too unstable when it goes to gaming.

what the fudge are you talking about, I run XP on both my main rig, and my laptop....and my lappy only has 192megs....and it runs just fine.

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: CHIZZY on March 08, 2002, 01:44:05 PM

I\'m running XP pro at home and me rikey. (except for the whole big brother aspect of windows media player...)

sometimes software compatibility is a prob, (even though it\'s built off of NT....)

Title: Windows XP skin
Post by: nO-One on March 08, 2002, 05:46:12 PM

For the wmp problem:
Open wmp8 go to Tools>>Options then untick the "allow internet sites to uniquely identify your player.

The software compatability
Go to the programs .exe file, right click it and go to properties>>Compatabilty check the "Run this program in compatabilty for and the make your selection.

If you system is running slowly:
Get a program called TweakUI, disable the animations in all menus and all  fading.

You just have to tweak your system until it runs like you want it to, there are so many tweaks out there you would be amazed.