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Quasi-Windows Desktopby ~Rasylver

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Here's my current VirtualBox XP setup (still running Ubuntu as a host OS).

Pictured is:

Rosenrot Litestep - found here.
Vexille Sidelines (soon to be released) - a variant of my skin found here.
Wallpaper - uploaded here. If anyone knows the source of this wallpaper, let me know and I'll credit them.

And yeah, I know the clock's broken there, I had the OS set to Japanese at the time.

~sovietpunch Jun 24, 2010

I just made MGS skinset. I'll have to upload a screen.

~Rasylver Jun 25, 2010

Nice, send me a link once it's up.

~sovietpunch Jun 25, 2010

Of course, uploading now.

Im pretty sure some of your stuff is in it haha.

~90210603 Jun 24, 2010

I absolutely LOVE your taste! And I couldn't get enough of MGS3, which is what this reminds me of a lot. Is there any way I can get this kind of look for Windows 7? Maybe a WindowsBlinds theme or something, combined with Rainmeter, the wallpaper, and a few other programs' help. I really don't expect you to do all this for me, simply wondering if it already exists? (finger crossed!)

~Rasylver Jun 24, 2010

Thank you.

Well, you can download the wallpaper and the Rainmeter skin, of course (I'll hopefully have the one shown online within the next few days)...
I don't think Litestep works with Windows 7 (though I didn't get around to trying it). You could check out Blackbox for Windows which is pretty good - you lose your standard Windows interface and right-click on the desktop to get into the start menu etc (takes a bit of getting used to, but is pretty good nonetheless). It also has plugins and addons around to extend what it can do.
I uploaded a screenshot of Blackbox running on my laptop here ages ago - it's possible to run Rainmeter in combination with Blackbox too.

So, try that and let me know if you run into any problems and I'll see if I can suggest anything.

~90210603 Jun 24, 2010

Thanks for the reply

So I totally had no idea what Litestep even was, but I'm trying it out now. So far it...kinda works. After installation, shell replacement, and a reboot, the desktop is black and I can't figure out how to install the Rosenrot theme. I'm looking around now feverishly but I don't see any theme installation help for Litestep. Also, for some reason, Rainmeter thinks it's fun to launch three instances of itself on startup. Not a huge problem, but I'd rather not have to exit out of two every time I startup.
And I can't wait for that Rainmeter theme to come! Truly, nice work!

~90210603 Jun 25, 2010

Just to update, I've gotten Litestep to work perfectly now (to my knowledge). I found a nice step-by-step guide on how to install themes, and I did both installation methods for Rosenrot (changed the .rar to a .zip and then used the installer, and changed the .rar to a .lsz), neither of which worked. It doesn't show up under the list of installed themes. However the installation was apparently successful no matter how many times I re-did it. Rainmeter is still acting the same way as I described above.

If I knew how to edit posts, I would've dont aht. But I'm pretty new, sorry for the double post!

~Rasylver Jun 25, 2010

What I've been doing for Litestep is copying the theme folder to the Litestep themes folder (which should be accessible through the right-click menu under Litestep) and then manually editing the ThemesList.rc file to add an entry for whatever theme folder I've added, then going back into the right-click menu and clicking Recycle to update the theme list. I don't know if there's a better way when there's no .lsz file, but that seems to work.

As for Rainmeter, does it show up in your Startup folder in the Start Menu more than once? You could try running msconfig.exe and removing some instances of it from the startup programs if it appears there too.

I don't think it is possible to edit comments, well, if there is a way I haven't figured out how to do it either.

~90210603 Jun 25, 2010

Sweet, I'll try that. Been wanting to format my HD for a while, and messing with the shells and all that really REALLY slowed down explorer.exe, so I had the excuse to format this morning. I'll see if I can get Rosenrot working now and all that. Hopefully it'll work.

Btw, Litestep doesn't take care of explorer windows too, does it? Because I hate having Litestep themes and then the Aero explorer pops up, totally ruins the look.

~Rasylver Jul 9, 2010

Did you manage to get Rosenrot working in the end?
I just had to set it up again and I remembered another set that's needed...
Once you download it and install it in the relevant location for themes, go into the theme.rc for it and change the lines under the Modules section - change LoadModule to *NetLoadModule and remove the stuff before the actual plugin name on the same line (i.e. $ThemeDir$ etc) - then copy everything from the theme's module folder into the main module folder under the Litestep installation.

A bit convoluted, but that's how I got around the errors for being unable to load modules.

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