This is a module for GUIReplacer 1.4. It does something pretty simple; it exchanges quite a few icons in XP for their lower-quality counterparts, as well as alters a few other resources to look more 2ky. This is for those of us who just refuse to move into the future . I made this because I personally don't like the look of XP's icons, but there are some really good reasons to be using XP over 2k on my system (the faster disk access being a big one, but having things like Windows Firewall and alpha-blended icon support are nice too (I see the irony, yes.)). If you don't like it, great; otherwise, enjoy. It's still very much a work in progress, as you can see from the screenshot, but it does make me feel a little bit more at home on my own machine. More resources will get added at my own lazy pace; if you request a specific file to get de-XPified, I might be tempted to do it just a little bit faster. Think of it as XPize in reverse: achieving consistency by going with IE4/2k style icons instead of XPifying everything else.

And as a word of warning, the XP-style start menu looks hideous at the moment. That'll require some creativity to make not suck. The My Network Places icon is normal 2k/ME, I just changed it for myself. And no, the longhorn-ish start button isn't included. Are included, however, are reshacked versions of the XP Powertoy Calc and Notepad2... which I'll probably remove next time I upload this, after a couple hundred legal threats.

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lol good idea, im still waiting for a windows 3.1 gui replacer module

Heh... that might take a bit of work. And I'm almost 20% positive you were joking, but I'm sure I could have that done as soon as I could pirate a copy of NT 3.51, or dig up my WFW3.11 CD... not that I'd ever consider such a thing

i was more like 30% joking but you gotta admit it would be kinda cool for a while

Actually, that would be really rediculously hard, I just remembered that 3.x only had 32x32 icons. And reshack can't extract resources from 16-bit executables, which WFW 3.11 would be completely composed of. So yeah, good thing you were just joking

Why make XP look like k2 why don't just install K2 if want it look like that?

sarcasm yes, but you can still use progman from 3.11 instead of explorer in xp...retro is cool, cept it's a bitch to make all those program groups and items...and it doesn't have the calculator that says 3.11-3.1=0.....awww....those were the days.

stupid work internet

dp, sorry

Prefetch, primarily. It roxors my boxor.

Just out of curiosity, anything out there that actually mimics the "big 32x32 icon" iconizing behavior instead of the miniaturized titebars that we get on 95+?

lol, nice idea. wont be using it though

Lol, this is the Anti XPize GUIr module

LOL, hehe each person have your own taste of course and I respect, but personally I think what we walk to ahead not for behind, sorry dude is my modest opinion

Yeah, this is for those days when I've had enough of Crystal and Bluecurve. Longhorn's showing some promise in having a default theme that doesn't make me personally gag, though