Attention. This theme has been updated. Check out v2 of the theme here
I have changed a few things around, added some cool effects and some other things.
Anyway enough yapping onto the pictures
Xbox 360 desktop with custom start orb and big taskbar
Custom start button when inactive, when hovered over and when pressed
New start menu with text glow
Green shadow colour and xbox themed close/maximise/minimise buttons
New aero background transparency
It must be said that obviously its only for vista users who have aero enabled.
Additionally i have only tested it on 32-bit systems so i dont know how it would look on 64-bit.
Finally, this is in no way endorsed by Microsoft and it is only a fan made theme.
Thats out the way.
Do you like?
Download here
Install instructions
To install a new theme if you have never used a custom one before follow these instructions.
You need to first install Vista Glazz which patches your theme files and allows you to have custom themes.
It can be found here
http://vista-glazz.uptodown.com/en/
After installation close the installer and find it in your start menu and run it. it will pop up but allow it because thiss will run it as administrator.
When running the program click the computer icon and choose patch files you will need to restart your computer.
After the restart open Vista Glazz once again and click the colour icon next to the computer and patch them too. you will not need to restart after patching these.
Now you download and use any theme.
To use a custom theme, go to your c drive and go to the windows folder, find resources, themes.
now copy the files of the downloaded theme into the theme folder like so.
Copy the content of the downloaded theme, the theme folder and the theme file into C:\windows\resources\themes
Now you can double click the theme file and in the pop up box select the theme that you want and click apply.
Double click the theme file and choose your desired theme
Thats all folks. I hope you like it.
Any comments, feedback, gripes? Let me know.
Be nice lol its my first ever go at making a theme and im not an expert.
the better twin
nice theme…tried it and it didn’t quite look like what you have here. The only thing that changed was the color. Did not get the same desktop, taskbar, start button, etc.
hey glad you like it. are you sure you have an aero compatible version of vista?
im afraid it wont work if you have home basic as it uses the aero resources
Es un temaso… exelente
XBox 360
Well made theme man, great job
Hey I got the task bar to work but how do u get the back ground like that?
ummmm i just got that desktop off of a website somewhere i cant remember where now. you could check out my v2 theme which comes with the wallpaper and sets it as the defauld one when you switch themes if you want
http://thebettertwin.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/xbox-360-v2-elite-edition-vista-desktop-theme
how do u get that dekstop? is not apearing in mine ¬¬
ummmm i just got that desktop off of a website somewhere i cant remember where now. you could check out my v2 theme which comes with the wallpaper and sets it as the defauld one when you switch themes if you want
http://thebettertwin.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/xbox-360-v2-elite-edition-vista-desktop-theme/
I’ve had an Xbox for about 6 months now and I have to say that it’s the best gaming console I’ve ever used. Thumbs up from me. Great article.
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Thanks. Appreciate your comments