[GUIR] Inexperience

[vertigosity]

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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[1337-podder]

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

[vertigosity]

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

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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 ;)

[1337-podder]

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

[vertigosity]

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 :rolleyes:

[eNeon]

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

[Jesse Carlton]

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

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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.

[Jesse Carlton]

stupid work internet

dp, sorry

Edited March 23, 2005 by jester1983

[vertigosity]

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

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Prefetch, primarily. It roxors my boxor. :yes:

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.

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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+?

Edited March 23, 2005 by vertigosity

[jimro]

lol, nice idea. wont be using it though :)

[XPero]

Lol, this is the Anti XPize GUIr module :p

[Nelsinho]

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 ;)

[vertigosity]

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 :)