Half Blood for Windows XP

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zerologic

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Nice theme. If I go back to XP (very tempted to anyways), I'll use this theme. Good job. :)

I thought you loved Windows Vista:

Windows Vista is 'Half Baked' Poll

Windows Vista is 'Half Baked' Poll

How very confusing.

About the Visual Style - Really liking it! Thanks

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Randolph

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I thought you loved Windows Vista:

Windows Vista is 'Half Baked' Poll

Windows Vista is 'Half Baked' Poll

How very confusing.

About the Visual Style - Really liking it! Thanks

lmao @ owned

this theme is incredible. i was messing with it today and its great. thanks!

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Nevezen

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Nevermind, I just realized there is no Firefox theme to that. :p

Can someone mind explaining to me what Snake78 and Color Pad do?

Snake is a really old game, but I removed it from the download to make it smaller for peeps with low bandwidth. Color pad is an app that helps pick up colors values from your screen. Do you ever read the readmes? I usually put them in there for a reason :p

The theme looks perfectly fine without the extra apps. =\

Thanks :p :)

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That's very beautiful, but I have one problem with it, which actually is the deal-breaker for me. I don't like that the minimize and maximize buttons don't have a default state (ie are invisible until you roll over them).

I know it may seem like a small thing to some people, but it's nice for me to see, even on a minimalistic theme. So if you ever release a version with those two buttons visible always, you'll have my gratitude (shouldn't be too hard right?:p)

Still, very nice, simple and aesthetically pleasing theme. Good work.

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Nevezen

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That's very beautiful, but I have one problem with it, which actually is the deal-breaker for me. I don't like that the minimize and maximize buttons don't have a default state (ie are invisible until you roll over them).

I know it may seem like a small thing to some people, but it's nice for me to see, even on a minimalistic theme. So if you ever release a version with those two buttons visible always, you'll have my gratitude (shouldn't be too hard right?:p)

Still, very nice, simple and aesthetically pleasing theme. Good work.

Thanks. Id like to oblige but I want this theme to be different from the others I made so no max/min buttons. Try the others in my gallery if you like :)

Or, if you're of the mind to, its a relatively simple job to edit the bitmaps using stylebuilder. Or reshacker or something like that, though I havent tried that software.

His anger is not unjustified. But moving on, I noticed the Orange theme doesn't have the same Start Menu button as the Blue and Green one? I'd like to have the Orange start button too.

Yea, it has a diff button for a reason, orange looks yucky in that square shape. Anyway, Ive updated with a new text start button, but replace your copy only if you like the new one. :)

Just a general note to everybody using this theme. If you have a question of a comment, its better to leave one on my DA page because I dont chec here very often.

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