Make Your XP Computer Look Like OS X

For whatever reason, many Windows XP users are obsessed with making their desktop look like a Mac. It’s not a new phenomenon, but the enterprising people over at FlyakiteOSX created a really easy way to transform your desktop into an OS X look & feel without a lot of trouble.
Note: This installation will change a [...]

Why Do My Icons Have a Background Color in Windows XP?

if you’ve been wondering why your XP desktop icons have a background color, you’ll be glad to know you can flip a checkbox and have them go back to a normal transparent background.
Here’s the two versions side by side.

To set the transparent background on the icons, we’ll need to open System Properties in Control [...]

Vista Tool Tip

Visual Tooltip
( Windows XP/Vista only, sorry )Visual Tooltip makes it possible to show a thumbnail of a window by putting the mouse cursor over a button of the taskbar

The thumbnails can be moved anywhere on the desktop

The thumbnails can be added in a “dock bar”

The thumbnails can have various rotations ( from 0 [...]

Make VLC Player Look like Windows Media Player 11

The VLC Media Player is an open source, cross-platform media client that supports the vast majority of media formats. One of the great features is that it supports skins that work across different platforms. This article will cover installing on both linux and windows.
You will first need to download the skin named WMP11 from the [...]

Get Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows XP

It was only a matter of time before people started cloning Windows Vista features and adding them into Windows XP. One of my favorite Vista features is the thumbnails that popup when you mouse over the taskbar. And now I can use them in XP as well.
The utility we’ll use is called Visual Tooltip, which [...]

Get Vista Style Drive Icons in Windows XP

One of the nice little features in Windows Vista that you don’t think about is the graph of drive space for your drive icons, so you can visually see at a glance how much space is used. There’s no reason to upgrade for this feature, especially since some programmers created a small utility for XP [...]