Making Windows look good – Linux themes in Windows

Posted: March 13th, 2007

I learned about Linux themes in Windows via the Tux Vermelho blog (in Portuguese) which in turn learned about it from the Tech by Colin blog (in English). I’ll mirror the instructions here just in case:

1 – Download the Belchfire to patch to make Windows accept new themes (hurray for MS crippleware) from here.

2 – Download a Visual Style (Colin recomends these):
* Clearlooks
* Human
* Plastik
I went with clearlooks (same one I usually use in Linux).

3 – Icons. Get the Tango Patcher. Previews here.
I went with Tangerine (though I usually use the OSX icons in Linux – they are just sooo purrty).

4 – Tango for Firefox and Tango/Tangerine for uTorrent. You may be able to find (some of) these themes for other applications too.

And that’s all folks.

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