Make Your Linux Desktop Look-Like Windows 7 Using Transformation Packs
After covering Mac OS X transformation packs for Linux, today we are going to share two Windows 7 transformation packs for Linux users.
- Win2-7 Pack
- Vistar7
Win2-7 Pack
“Win2-7 Pack” is an excellent and highly customizable Windows 7 Transformation Pack for the Gnome Desktop.
It completely transforms your Linux desktop into Windows 7 operating system.
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Installation is very simple. Simply run GUIInstall.sh to install it. If you decide to uninstall the pack later, you just need to run GUIUninstall.sh command.
You can download it using following link:
Thanks to our reader “Ashish” for sharing it…
Vistar7
Vistar7 is an awesome transformation pack for Kubuntu which can make “Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04” look-like Windows 7.
Features list:
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- Color schemes
- Plasma theme
- Redmond Vista – Normal deKorator theme
- Windows 7 icon pack
- Aero mouse cusors
- Windows 7 like splash screen (login screen)
- All Windows 7 sound schemes
- Windows 7 wallpapers including beta wallpapers
- Segoe UI, Calibri and Cambri fonts
- Default Windows 7 user pictures
How to Use Instructions:
- Make sure you have a working Internet connection.
- Now open konsole in Transformation Pack directory.
- Run chmod +x install.sh command.
- Now run sudo ./install.sh command.
- At last login as vistar7 user.
Screenshot:
You can download it using following link:
hi
i have downloaded the files but it opens the files in text editer
^^ According to the website it depends upon Gnome 2.x.
No it works on cinnamon, but nut as nice as the old gnome 2 .
VG?,
I have lots of freeware i want to unpack and use on windows xp. Is there a way to turn off the grid organization on the windows desktop? (like linux–where the icons overlap).
Thanks for the website
Coty Chronister.
Hello AskVG…
Please fix this article, i found a spelling error:
Now open KONSOLE in Transformation Pack directory.
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I would very much like to make my freshly-installed Linux LXLE 18.04.3 have a Windows XP / 7 set of icons, a task bar and Tux-themed START button in the lower lefthand corner. Indeed, I’d like to do it for a whole lot of machines. I’ve been refurbishing computers / laptops and giving them away for years, but both XP and Windows 7 are no longer supporter.
Most motherboard manufacturers have, in fact, burned the bridges and deleted the drivers support pages for many laptops and motherboards. These machines still work.
I know, I’ve installed LXLE on many of them. But they are intended for kids, schools, churches, vets, what-have-you. Like it or not, most, if not all of those users are used to the look and feel of Windows themes and icons. Certainly, with time and practice, they can get used to Linux LXLE, but if they reject (and many do) a system as being too alien, it does no one any good, and a perfectly good machine collects dust until ultimately put on the curb, destined for the landfill or the Spicemizer Kessel.
So, I look for pages like this and try to follow the instructions, making .icons and .themes folders and unzipping the Windows-7-master.zip and Windows-XP-master.zip downloads into them, and yet cannot find the new Windows icons, start button and taskbar in the LOOK AND FEEL app.
I suppose what I am asking for (and I am certain that potential Windows converts will love this too), is a step-by-step set of terminal commands to cut and paste until the theme and icon downloads actually make it onto our desktops.