Make your Windows XP look like Vista

Since the first beta version of Windows Vista, along the time a bunch of experimented designers and coders built up theme packs, icon packs, partial transformations or even full transformation packs for XP mostly, that would change the face of your operating system, to be similar to the one of Vista.

I’m going to start with something simple enough. Some icon packs, for those of you who just want the icons to look different. Vista High PX is a package which contains more than 150 icons based on the model of Windows Vista at an exemplary quality. Or if you’re more of the picky kind of person, you can browse through Windows Vista Icon Packs, which is the greatest pack of Vista and Longhorn icons with a total of over 1200 icons.

Each time you start programs from the Start menu, you use the interface that has not changed for 10 years. No wonder that it becomes more and more difficult to use it due to the increase in the number of programs. Vista Start Menu is a completely another approach to the interface. In the process of development we were oriented towards how people perceive information and also towards the ability to remember the position of items.

And now for the top three transformation packs out there. The first would be Vista Customization Pack 3.6. Since it’s not just a “skin”, but a shell utility, the pack not only improves your desktop’s look, but it adds a few goodies too. The package performs many improvements to your Windows XP installation. The new icons, theme, color schemes and fonts blend in and give your system an awesome look. If, after you’ve installed it you’ll want to get back to the XP style, you can simply uninstall the pack, and it will undo the modifications.

On the other hand, Universal Vista Inspirat Brico Pack 1.1 is a powerful transformer as well. It consists of modified icons and a new themed appearance for Windows XP. Before launching the installation you must restore Windows XP original state/dll (Without any shell packs). For example, if you have the Longhorn Transformation Pack, you must uninstall it before installing a new BricoPack.

Last but not least, my favorite, Vista Transformation Pack 6 Final. It will give to your Windows XP system the new and cool look of Microsoft’s future operating system. The pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new enhancements to your desktop such as a dock bar or a different system tray clock.

The transformations listed above are my picks, but if you chose to want different, there’s plenty of them on the web. All you have to do is search.

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