NOTE: If your anti-virus software shows a warning message while using this app, ignore that. Its a false positive.
Now you can get Windows Vista and 7 like Aero Glass under Windows XP. Our friend "Komalo" has released an updated version of his excellent program "Border Skin" which provides Aero Glass in Windows XP with Blur and Reflection.
It contains lots of skins which can be applied by right-clicking on its system tray icon. You can also add it to System Startup.
If you want, you can enable/disable blur and reflection from the windows.
You can give it a try using following link:
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Tangmeister
turns out....
I tried it out. I have .NET Framework 3.5, XP SP3, yet the black pixels appear only around (like, a 10-pixel border or something) the corner PNGS of the windows.
But really good work! Maybe I'll just get a really dark wallpaper! ;).
Way better than TrueTransparency, but converting TT skins into BS skins blurs the shadow.
Great job!
dvy
Bug bug !!! not only ACDSee ! Any program switch from windowed into full screen,Border Skin still print windows frame. I hope Border Skin improve support full screen switching application !!
Mohamed Kamal (Komalo)
@dvy :
Thanks for reporting this bug, i will try to support full screen switching in the next versions
@Tangmeister :
i think this was a theme bug, the new version (0.2.3) has 2 new themes based on Windows 7
shewp41
VG, This will work in my PC? I have 128.0 MB of Video Card. I dont have UXTheme patcher. This thing will be affecting my computer's graphics? can i uninstall this program?
( I will ask you before I download =) )
Mohamed Kamal ( Komalo )
@shewp41 :
may i respond that ?
my laptop is graphics memory is 128 mb (Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family ) and it is working normally, you don't need a UXTheme Patcher because it's a native skinning program (skins applications in the memory)
and this a portable program, all you need to do to uninstall it is deleting it's folder
Harry
How can i get this to NOT skin google chrome!?
Mohamed Kamal ( Komalo )
@Harry :
the version 0.2.3 has Google chrome excluded in the exclusion list, if you opened the exclusion list (ExcludeList.ini) of it you will see this section
[Google Chrome]
Process=chrome
Classes=
Skin=
Skined=0
Harry
@Mohamed Kamal ( Komalo )
Thank you very much :D, i neglected to use it as it sorta glitched chrome XD
vinod
that was cool, Problem is for Firefox I can't see the minimize, maximum, close button that means top completely disappear also when i use short cuts to restore window alt+spacebar+r, to resize the window i get only left and right bar sticks to the left side and right side there is a problem need to improve more on this, i give 6/10
cs
Founded a bug as well.
In XP, aerosnap can't do it's job when the border skin app is running. Too bad actually, i was planning to keep using. It's a cool app nevertheless.