VistaVG RTM Theme for Windows XP



New updated theme available - VistaVG Ultimate Theme for XP

If you are facing menu cut-off problem in Start menu, then take a look at this link.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Windows-1.png

Its an update over previous VistaVG theme.

This theme has been made for Windows XP users who want to have "Windows Vista" look in their Windows. This theme can make your Windows XP look like Windows Vista.

"VistaVG" is the first Windows Vista look-a-like theme for Windows XP and almost all other themes available on net are based on it.

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Following are a few changes and new additions in this new theme:

1. A new style "Basic" has been added like the Vista Basic theme.

2. Both x32 and x48 iconsize styles are included in this theme. So there are 4 styles included in this theme:

Aero32 (Aero theme for 32x icon size)
Aero48 (Aero theme for 48x icon size)
Basic32 (Basic theme for 32x icon size)
Basic48 (Basic theme for 48x icon size)

3. Titlebar color in "Aero" style has been changed as well as the fonts.

4. Vista's default font "Segoe UI" has been used in this theme.

5. Logoff / shutdown BITMAPs has also changed.

6. And a few more small changes.

NOTE: Make sure you have patched the "uxtheme.dll" file to allow 3rd party visual styles, if its not patched, then download and run the UXtheme Patcher from here:

For XP SP3 Users - Download UXTheme Patcher
For XP SP2 Users - Download UXTheme Patcher



This article was posted in Windows XP, XP Themes.

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90 Comments

  • Great Work! Love this theme. One major thing that made me go with this theme was the storage indicators of all the hard drives when on the My Computer screen. I see in your screenshot that it has the indicators, but mine doesnt. Is this some other software or....? Thanks in advance

  • VG

    ^^ Please follow "Transform XP into Vista" tutorial which can be found in "Windows XP" section. You'll find all the info there.

  • Haha, thank you so much, I was just about to edit this post after I did some more searching and found your great resources.

  • VG

    ^^ No problem. :)

  • Thank you for your tips, Would you make a manual to edit the shellstyle.dll of the visual styles?
    I want to know how they are made.
    Congratulations for your theme VistaVG, is very pretty. Thanks a lot!!!!

  • How Do i Get this as my theme :sad: because it a rar file

  • How Do i Get this as my theme :sad: because it a rar file

  • VG

    ^^ Download WinRAR or 7-zip and then extract it. You can find both in "Downloads" section.

  • bunu indirdim .rar içindeki .exe'yi çalıştırdım masaüstü yenilendi explorer yenilendi yani işlemini durdurdu sonrasında benim explorer.exe yok oldu.Windowsun içindede sayfaları falan mecburen Görev Yöneticisi kullanarak açabiliyorum. :???: Tabi her bilmediğin şeye karışırsan böyle oldu işte :oops: off umarım bi türk kardeşimiz çıkarda yardımcı olabilir umarım :!: . :sad:

  • VG, there is no Theme folder for VistaVG 2.0 ???

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