How To Install Msstyles In Vista
Learn how to install XP Themes, Visual Styles, Boot Screens and Login Screens for the Windows XP operating system. Mr Ray 73 Mkii Serial Port.
If you’re a new, or even experienced Linux user, chances are pretty good that no matter how hard you try, there is always that one Windows program you need. Maybe it’s for work. Often a business will mandate a certain format for documents, and no matter how good it is, or how comfortable you might be in a native Linux program, you still need the Windows application. So instead of installing Windows alongside Linux, you installed Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator), which allows you to run Windows programs from within Linux. It’s a pretty great thing. Unfortunately, it can also be more than a little ugly.
Your Windows programs definitely don’t use your Linux themes, and to make it worse, they appear as if they came straight from Windows 95. Blocky, flat, and just all around ugly. Fortunately, Wine can actually accept MSStyle themes, which means it’s not that difficult to get your Windows applications looking fairly nice, even if they don’t quite match the rest of your desktop. The first step – after installing Wine and then your Windows application, which we’ll assume you know how to do, if you’re reading this article – is to find a theme you like. A good place to browse a lot of them is on at Deviantart.
Let’s say, for instance, that you’re using Ambiance, the default Ubuntu theme. This is what a typical window looks like. Again, here’s Notepad, the basic text editor for Windows, running in Wine. As you can see, it uses the Ubuntu window decorations, but the menus are blocky, the highlight color is wrong it doesn’t blend well at all.
But, if you took the theme, maybe it will. It’s a theme designed for Windows users who want to mimic the look and feel of Ubuntu on their Windows PC, but it will work just as well for us running Windows applications in Wine. Go ahead and click the Download File link, and save it to your computer.
Once it’s finished downloading, extract the archive. Inside the folder is another folder, called UbuntuLight. This is where the theme file is. To install it, we need to use the Wine Configuration program, which can be found in the Applications menu, under Wine. Now navigate to the Desktop Integration tab. Now click the Install Theme button and navigate to, and select, the theme you downloaded. Once you’ve done this, simply choose it from the Theme menu.
Now, try out a new Windows program. Let’s use Notetab again. Now, suddenly, we have a closer match to our regular Ubuntu style. It’s not going to fool anyone (the menus are different, and some of the widgets are still firmly in the Windows world), but it’s close.
Set the fonts to something a little closer (again in the Wine Configuration’s Desktop Integration tab), and you should feel a little more at home.
HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really can't apply the visual styles (.msstyles) in Windows Vista Home Premium! I downloaded the themes, i thought they're.theme files and can be applied and opened. Many-many themes were.msstyles And when I try to install the Vista OS X, its says that I must install Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS MADE ME A BIT HARD TO FIND THEMES BUT I STILL CAN FIND THE Themes (.theme) files FOR THE THEMES IN WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM I'M USING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best I can do is suggest you use the ' VistaGlazz ' program ( tool ) It changes the system files which will allow you to install themes in Vista.
Without buying the Microsoft upgrade. That is an oversimplification, but at the least this tool will let you make Themes the old fashioned way.
Ie using the Windows Theme tool, ( Personalize / Theme ) than arrange the desktop how you like and save the file using the ' Save As. ( the one on the Theme Settings Screen which opens when clicking Theme. Beyond that, there are lots of Vista Themes available but they totally confuse me. Csicol V8 4 Cracker. Some I cannot get to work at all, and some are terrific.
But the starting point is VistaGLazz. It will not hurt your system, It will reverse the changes made with one click. I was using this before SP1 so I do not think that, that matters. Get it Here: As best I understand, those Downloadable Themes which have a Theme file and are the ' Msstyles ' variety will work. They are out there, Google ' Vista Msstyles -XP ' The ' -XP ' helps to avoid the XP themes which make XP look like vista.
Watch out for these, they appear to be vista themes but are not. Hope this helps.