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XP to Vista Reality Tutorial

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I made my own XP to Vista Ultimate Tutorial!!!

UPDATE 07.07.2010 : Added some new programs and removed the deleted ones :).


:fella: WindowBlinds Skins:

:bulletblue: Aero Ultimate Final by ~fediafedia
(recommended)
[link]

:bulletblue: WhiteFlame True Aero 3 by ~Fishy-Fish [link]


:fella: Visual Styles (no WB):

:bulletblue: VistaVG by =Vishal-Gupta (recommended): [link]

:bulletblue: VistaCG by ~spaceqcg [link]


:fella: Glass Windows (no WB):

:bulletblue: Border Skin by ~komalo (highly recommended) [link]

:bulletblue: TrueTransparency (recommended)
Download: [link]
All colors for TT by ~Balderoine: [link]
Vista Basic for TT by ~Balderoine: [link]

:bulletblue: VystalVivid

:fella: Vista Start Menu:

:bulletblue: ViStart (recommended)
Download: [link]
All colors for ViStart by ~fediafedia: [link]

:bulletblue: VSE (Vista Start Menu Emulator)
Download: [link]


:fella: Vista Start Orb:

:bulletblue: ViOrb (recommended)
Download: [link]
ViOrb Aero Ultimate Skin by ~fediafedia: [link]

:fella: Ported Vista Games and Applications:
Note: For all these games and apps you will need Alky for Applications found here: [link] You will find here the patch to make the Windows Sidebar work, too.

:bulletblue: Minesweeper, Freecell, Hearts, Inkball, Shanghai, Solitaire and Spider Solitaire: [link] or [link]

After downloading this you may notice that Inkball is crashing all the time.

:bulletblue: Snipping Tool, Sticky Notes, Inkball, Texas Hold'Em and Windows Journal: [link]

:bulletblue: A modification of Shanghai to look exactly like Mahjong Titans by ~Rudy-XP: [link]

:bulletblue: Chess Titans for XP! (please tell me in the comments whether this works or not) [link]

:bulletblue: Paint, Calculator and Notepad: [link]

:bulletblue: Windows Sidebar: [link]

:bulletblue: Windows Media Player 11:
Download: [link]
Windows Basic Skin by ~fediaFedia: [link]
Aero Skin by ~fediaFedia: [link]

:bulletblue: Windows Live pack for XP: [link]

:bulletblue: Windows Defender: [link]

:bulletblue: Mozilla Firefox:
Download: [link]
~fediaFedia's Firefox to IE7 Tutorial: [link]

:fella: Additional Vista Games and Applications:
This programs don't either look exactly like the ones in Vista or have all the functionalities Vista has to offer.

:bulletblue: Brutal Chess (until Chess Titans will be ported to XP) [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Welcome Center

Basic version by ~fediaFedia: [link]
Glass version by ~Dantaylor17: [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Game Explorer by ~MrrAnderson [link]



:fella: Windows Flip 3D:

:bulletblue: WinFlip (recommended)
Download: [link]
A more authentic WinFlip by ~TSR-Pr: [link]

:bulletblue: Shock Aero 3D (recommended): [link]


:fella: Vista Explorer:

:bulletblue: Styler:
Download: [link]

:bulletblue: Get the perfect Vista Basic Experience! Link coming soon.

:bulletblue: Favorite Links for XP by ~fediaFedia [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Drive Icon: [link]

:bulletblue: ViSplore:
Download: [link]
Per-Pixel Perfect Skin by ~ViXPta: [link]

:bulletblue: QTAddressBar: [link]

:fella: Vista Utilities:

:bulletblue: Vista Fonts for XP: These can be found on various skins, so I won't post any links.

:bulletblue: Vista Icons for IconPackager by ~sreeejith: [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Boot Screen for XP by ~Fishy-Fish: [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Logon Screen for XP by ~mjamil85
Big Frames: [link]
Small Frames: [link]

:bulletblue: Vista User Account Pictures for XP by ~Joshu4: [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Sound Scheme + Aero Cursors for XP by ~joshoon [link]

:bulletblue: Vista Screensavers for XP by !Picassa243 [link]

:fella: Vista Windows Special Effects:

:bulletblue: Stardock WindowsFX for fade effect in XP (shareware)(reccomended) [link]

:bulletblue: Nimi Visuals (freeware) [link]

This has been created especially for Vista Basic theme
If i missed something tell me
Please send a comment if there are new programs
Comments are welcome!:)

All up there is others' work; I only made a tutorial:|

I hope you enjoyed this and send me your feedback down there in the comments section :)!
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Connor9565's avatar
It looks decent. What i've noticed is Windows 7 and 8. are the best OS to make like Vista. You just need more tools like oldnewexplorer if you're on 8.1