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Cappippuni — Toybox for Windows 7
Published: 2012-08-07 21:39:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 240379; Favourites: 2221; Downloads: 51827
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Description
Final version of the previously known "Ichigo Pistachio for Windows 7" visual style.Now including 6 colors variations! Yay!
ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS 7*!
*Windows 7 Starter not supported
INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Extract the folder named "Visual Style" from the .zip archive to your desktop.
2. Go to the C:\Windows\Resources\Themes directory.
3. Open the 'Visual Style' folder located on your desktop, drag the contents of the "Visual Style" folder instead of the actual folder (as shown in this example ) to the "Themes" directory opened just before.
4. Now, right-click on your desktop, select "Personalize" (or any corresponding word for non-English systems), and finally select one of your favorite colors of the Toybox series!
5. After that, pick your favorite picture on your computer as your desktop background (unless if you want a blank colored background)!
♪ Note: If you never used any third-party visual styles on your computer before, you need to patch your system files or the themes will not work properly!
Please read the excellent walkthrough written by `neiio for more information here:
How to Install & Use Custom 3rd Party Themes *
*archived version on archive.org as the original link is broken
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LICENSING:
Redistribution, modification or repackaging of this theme not allowed without my explicit written consent firstly.
And, please, do not use my works for any commercial or profit use!
Thank you to everyone for the bugs reports, helps and your support!!!
THANKS TO:
Thanks to *Raindropmemory , Mozilla and Microsoft for the inspiration for this visual style, and `neiio for his installation tutorial mentioned above. ^^
Icons:
Yoritsuki (by Hybrid:Works)
Longhorn Icon Pack R2 (by *Flahorn )
iWindows (by ~wwalczyszyn )
Build Icons (by Design Kindle)
Slicy (Mac OS X app)
Sweet Icons (by ~Melaamory )
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Comments: 636
thank you so much! i've been waiting for this. :3
i love you <3
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Great colorful VS, thank you.
Any chance you will alter secondary highlight color to assist the main theme color (like blue tabs and checkboxes for Umi theme etc.)?
Bugreport: no windows flashing in the taskbar.
That's a real issue since you can't use IM services (which would flash window caption to inform about new incoming message). Example of these is Skype IM (chat) messages (not calls).
Can you fix this please?
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I don't plan to work further on this visual style in a near future, sorry.
About the lack of flashing notifications in the taskbar I'm aware about this issue but don't know the origin of this problem (I can't reproduce this problem because I don't use IM clients on Windows).
If I find a solution to it I will try to fix it and contact you. Thank you again for reporting this bug!
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Very cute but very amazing. Love it.
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WAAAAH! It's soo cute,
I just have to download it, mwihhiih! *awkward laugh*
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Hehehe I hope you will like it! ^_^
Thankies! :3
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Installed on my computer now, and it's soo coool!
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That's cool!
I'm just a bit curious, what color are you using?
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Thats great! I'll install it when i get my w7 computer!
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.. Just random awesome I noticed, YOU HAVE MORROWIND!!
I'm gonna go try this out.
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Yep! I really love this game (also huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series!), especially that the modding community around this game still continue to make this game more and more awesome even after 10 years since its release.
I hope you will enjoy Morrowind!
I can't stop playing to it since many years now, really addicting! Ahaha!
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Haha 
I really can't blame you for still playing it. It's probably the best ES game (in my opinion of course).
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Agree too, in my opinion this is the best Elder Scrolls (especially due to the rich lore/background developed in this game), also I really liked the good old Daggerfall.
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Aww, I don't have Daggerfall... Again, if I had the time, I'd definitely get it and play the living crap out of it.
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Great work!
I rarely see a decent colourful visual style, and this seems like the best one I've seen so far!
Also clever blending of the window borders with the window content colour. It gives a similar effect to borderless windows in Mac/Linux themes.
Will definitely try it out after I get some sleep haha
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Thank you a lot! ^^
Indeed I was inspired to the borderless style of the windows as seen in OS X, blending the frames borders and the content while still keeping a margin of few pixels at each sides (some softwares -especially Firefox- have visual bugs if the side borders are too fine or inexistent in some visual styles).
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The easiest way to use the explorerframe.dll files is to use theme resource changer (TRC). It does all the work for you after you convert the files from bmp to png (extract using resource extractor; convert using greenfish). The files you need are numbered 280, 281, 288, 291, 294, 577, 578, 579, 581, 34560, 34561, 34562, 34569, 34570, 34571, 34575, 34576, 34577, 34581, 34582, and 34583. You can do the same for the explorer.exe files and the shell32.dll file. those numbers are explorer.exe - 6801, 6805, and 6809; shell32.dll - 632, 633, 634, 635. Then create 3 folders - explorer.exe, explorerframe.dll, and shell32.dll. Place the pngs in those folders and TRC does the rest. No hassles changing system files. Now, Cappippuni, where are your start orb images (explorer.exe)? I guess I could just use some of my own choosing.
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Thanks a lot for your tip, very helpful and interesting (never heard about Theme Resource Changer before! Thank you.)!
About the optional Start orbs, I had temporary removed them from the archive due to a mistake with the alpha transparency in the bitmaps files.
I just updated the archive with the optional Start buttons included again and now fixed.
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Hola! me encanto el tema
pero dime funciona en x64 bits windows 7 ????
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Muchas gracias! ^^ Este tema funciona con 64-bit (x64) version Windows 7. ; )
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I don't have a 32-bit (x86) version of Windows and can't make a compatible explorer frame for it.
But I have included the original .png source files in the archive (in the 'Source Files' folder inside 'Explorer Frame (advanced users only)') if you have a resources editor software (like Restorator 2007) and want to modify your ExplorerFrame.dll with the ones included.
Hope this will be helpful... : )
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; n ; i need help. i did everything i needed to but the theme wont work.
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Hiya! ^_^ Do you have the following files (circled in red in this example) in your 'Themes' folder? And have you successfully patched your system files with the Universal Theme Patcher program?
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For more details, are you using a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) version of Windows (go to the Start menu, right-click on 'Computer', then you should see if you use a 32-bit or 64-bit system)?
And have you restarted your computer after having patched the system files with Universal Theme Patcher so the changes will be validated and allowing the use of visual styles?
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Hmm that's quite strange, indeed... :S
I don't really know what may cause this problem on your computer, I'm so sorry to not being able to help you. My apologies. : (
If I eventually find a solution to the cause of your problem I will tell you. ; )
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[link] here is a pic of my laptop. ^ u ^
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podrias Editar asi bn lindo el tema de Pastelia ;D??
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Unfortunately I made the 'Pastelia' theme a long time ago (originally made in late 2009, just few weeks after Windows 7 was available) and can't find the original source files used for this theme in my backups.
This was my first theme for Windows, and I made it at a time I began to learn how to use graphics tools softwares (that was good memories... ^^).
Also working on visual styles requires way too much time and I currently working on several others projects. Sorry. ^_^
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The most beautiful visual style ever used!! ;D [link]
Can you tell me what ORB style are you using in the screenshot??
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Thank you!
About the Start button appearing in the preview I will update the archive by including it and also with several optional buttons very soon, probably in the next hours (currently finishing to fix a transparency mistake I made on them). ; )
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a bug found here: [link]
any way to fix this???
Regards
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I'm aware of this little visual bug appearing with the clock/calendar popup (the clock and calendar are surrounded in white instead of light gray as used by the windows in this theme) and the 'Run' dialog window, unfortunately this can't be fixed within a visual style, needing to modify a .dll system file. ^^
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