Customizing XP

[845]

My friend changed his log in screen and his toolbar and stuff to different colors I cant figure out how do this. I know there was a way in Windows 98 but I cant figure it out for XP. Is there a program to do this or am I just missing something in desktop properties. All I can do is change it from silver to blue to this baby poop green color.

[yeahthatsme]

right click on desk top then go to property then click on the appearance tab

[845]

yeah but how do u change the log in screen picture? And the toolbar?

[behemoth]

TweakXP.com

'nuff said.

[Cheeseball24]

Start > Control Panel > User Accounts

[845]

thanks. No not the pic next your name the whole screen.

[MarkM]

Toolbar is changed when you change the theme and the login pic change is in user accounts.

All posting at the same time...oh and TweakXP is nasty you can really screw things up with that program

Right click on the desktop and choose properties and then the Desktop tab then choose another pic from the list or use the browse and put a pic you have stored on your PC as the desktop...be careful not to use too small a pic as it will end up tiling itself or have a huge border.

[e mag]

tweakxp.com isnt the program, it just has lots of tweaks, mostly in the registry, that do lots of useful things. To change the boot and login screen go to www.themexp.org and look for their instructions.

[mikey101]

themexp.org <- good stuff

here's what i'm using for the time being..
My desktop

i've changed my theme, new set of icons, and a sweet bootscreen is set.

[painTech]

when i try to change my login to the new xp style i get an error message saying i need ot uninstall somehting.

Client for netware disabled feature. to activate uninstall netware yada yada.

[845]

Yeah i just found themexp on tweakxp.org and it worked. Thanks for the help.

[MarkM]

My bad at the tweakxp.com...you can buy a program called TweakXp and that was what I was saying is nasty.