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Cappippuni — Toybox for Windows 7
Published: 2012-08-07 21:39:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 240382; 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
It's on the side underneath the favorite button.
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It's really good, i am going to use this forever
But where is the start button icons? :c
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I temporary removed the optional Start buttons because of a little visual bug previously reported by someone else when replacing the Windows orb with one of them (most of them appearing surrounded by an opaque white square). I will try to fix this, then I will upload an update including several 'Start' buttons and instruction about how to install them as soon as possible. ; )
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Be sure to contact me when You finish the orbs c:
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Done! I just updated the archive with the optional Start buttons now included! : )
Have fun! ^_____^
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Wow, I really like this theme, but I can't post pictures or do anything with a pop-up. ; ^ ; Is there something I can do to fix it?
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Hmm do you have a problem with the tooltips (='bubbles') or with the smaller dialog windows? And does the cause of the problem is that you can't close them?
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Mm, it's firefox?
And I'll try to upload a photo to example tumblr.
When I click the browse button, nothing opens up.
Should I try using chrome?
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I'm using Firefox as my browser too, this problem may probably come from Tumblr (I almost never use this website, so I can't try).
Maybe you should try to see if it works with another browser (Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari, for examples)... If this problem still persist, tell me if the 'browse' button is working with the default Windows theme (named 'Windows 7' in the personalization panel, also know as 'Aero'). ^_^
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Cheers mate... beautiful theme...
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Ah never mind found it ! ^^ Thank you ! ♥
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Hehe no problem! Have fun!
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I don't have that directory for some reason ? ; _ ;
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Thank you very much! : )
I made this theme for Windows 7, but I mainly use Mac OS X most of the time too. ^^
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you're very welcome haha. ^_^
are there mac themes available or does only windows allow them?
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Unfortunately there are only very few themes available for Mac.
There was an app named ThemePark which allowed to create your own theme but it seems that it doesn't work well with Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8) .
I remember I already tried this app when I was using Snow Leopard (10.6), but it was quite complex to use and could cause crashes in some cases, hence probably why there are almost no themes for this system. : (
Some themes are available on Iconpaper but most of them works only with OS X Snow Leopard... : )
Most of the themes are only for Windows (Windows Style Builder is used to create customs themes for Windows 7, and hopefully for the upcoming Windows 8 in the future), but there also some very interesting visual styles for Linux-based systems (offering much more personalization possibilities than Windows, but more complex)...
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wow thank you for all of that!!
that's a bummer, but maybe mac will allow for better customization in the future! ^_^
as for now, my custom icons are fine with me haha. (:
thanks again though, i really appreciate the info.
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vaav love this! which program you use for create these??tks <3
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Yay thank you!
For making your own customized visual style for Windows 7 you need to use Windows Style Builder (for modifying the .msstyle file), any good graphics software (like Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET or The GIMP, for examples), and of course lots of trials and patience! ^.^
And if you want to create a modified explorer frame (back/forward buttons, reload/stop pictograms...), you will need to use a resources editor (Restorator 2007 is a good software for this task) for opening the contents of .dll files; in this case modifying the ExplorerFrame.dll file. : )
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Can you please share the icons? ♥ (cappippuni, work in progress, icons, desktop)
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You can find the icons seen in the preview at the following links below:
● 'Icons': Yoritsuki
● 'Downloads', 'Homegroup' and 'Network': Longhorn Icon Pack R2
● 'Desktop': iWindows
● 'Cappippuni': Build Icons
● 'Artbook': Slicy (an application for Mac OS X. Original .png icon here )
● 'Work In Progress': (I don't remember where I found this icon, probably from an application icon. Anyway you download it here )
And finally the lollipop icon seen in the 'Computer' window came from Sweet Icons by ~Melaamory . ^_^
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Ok, I couldn't find my previous comment so here's a new one, after having installed the theme successfully.
My final opinion is that you may want to test it on some common programs.
The top bar (with the minimize, quit, and resize) is too small for the text for FF, Word, and others.
Also, with Word, the whole document background is now light gray. I actually prefer that, but others may not.
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Thank you!
Indeed the top frame may be too narrow when applications are maximized, but I can't modify it without breaking the whole windows frames.
About Word, I can't test this issue because I'm using the Preview version of Word 2013 which have its own window style.
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This is awesome! Thanks for the wonderful and cute theme :3
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Awesome!!!! Thank you so much! I downloaded the patcher and it worked
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Dans le panneau de config y a aussi l'ancien fond windows (bleu avec des sortes de lignes de vitesse ou de halo) qui reste sous le menu contextuel de gauche. Ca se modifie facilement ?
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Ah! Au sujet de ce fond bleu, il s'agit d'une image se trouvant à l'intérieur même du fichier shell32.dll (fichier important pour l'explorateur de fichier, si je ne me trompe pas...) situé dans C:\Windows\System32.
Pour le remplacer il faut utiliser un éditeur de ressources (Restorator 2007 par exemple) pour ouvrir les fichiers .dll, opération assez délicate surtout pour ce fichier dont j'ai préféré éviter de modifier. ^^
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Do you know how I can install this using windows theme installer? When I drag and drop the file to my theme folder, it only shows a black screen.
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Hello! you need to copy all the contents located in the 'Visual Style' folder in the .zip archive (Toybox Himawari.theme, Toybox Ichigo.theme, Toybox Konkurito.theme, Toybox Shida.theme, Toybox Umi.theme, Toybox Yoru.theme, and the folder named 'Toybox' including all of its contents) to the C:\Windows\Resources\Themes directory or the theme will not work. ; )
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This is so cute~
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Thank you very much!
About the desktop background, can you change it on your computer by the picture of your choice? If no, do you use Windows 7 Starter?
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You're very welcome~
I can set it to just one picture, but I like to have a slideshow going as my background because I have a lot of Visual Kei artists that I like.
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If you wish to set a slideshow of your favorites pictures, click on 'Browse', then select the folder containing the pictures you want to see in the slideshow, then click on the ' Select all' button.
And if you want to modify how often the pictures are changed, you can select a different interval in the list at the bottom of the window.
Hope this will help you... ^_________^
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I know how to set a slideshow on my background already, it's just that when I try to set it on their with your theme it doesn't work. ;_;
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Hmm that's a strange bug indeed... I don't know what may cause this weird issue... :S
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Alright then, thanks for trying~
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