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Old 13th January, 2003, 01:22 PM
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Themes and backgrounds

Does anyone know of any good sites to download (freeware!) windows xp desktop themes. The only one sI've found need a serparate (expensive) program to use proprietry file types. I noticed the thread in the graphics forum about uploading desktops but there is only one in the files section. i would have posted this in that forum except that it seems to be dead.

Can anyone help me? I'm tired of MS primary colours.
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Old 13th January, 2003, 03:56 PM
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I'm afraid to say I'm using one (many!) of those programs, as it makes life so much easier!

Sorry, that doesn't really help you does it?
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You might find something here

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Old 14th January, 2003, 12:58 PM
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Thanks, there are loads of cool pictures there but what I'm looking for is that actualy window themes - more like the skins you get for media players - i different colours sizes, shapes, shading, text and stuff for the window borders. I've seen some where the taskbar appears almost KDE-like, but maybe such drastic changes are only possible with those propriery programs. I'm sure there is somewhere out there that does *.theme files.
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The themes I've found so far that are "free" are not worth the trouble. Every one of them I've tried had a "companion" program(that you aren't told about) that you don't want.

XP doesn't limit you to primary color desktops. You might look at the Desktop tab of the Display Properties window. There are about 15 photo's you can use, and some of them are quite nice. Mebbe XP Home doesn't have these?

Btw, Plus for XP has only 3 or 4 themes. It's really for home video fan's.
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