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hiromoshi — Longhorn Beta 1 Style for RTM
Published: 2006-12-17 23:39:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 122968; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 280191
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Based off of what I think was one of the best beta UIs of Windows Longhorn, with a few of my own additions. This theme is virtually identical to the theme that was used in Beta 1, except with a few minor differences. Firstly, the taskbar is true glass, meaning it's not dark shaded, or some cloudy 4074 glass task bar. As far as I know it's functional to the point where it can be used on a day to day basis. Personally I've used this theme since I created and haven't gone back since. There is no shellstyle.dll created with this release, mainly because I felt I couldn't improve on the current shell style that is in place. Also, DWM is largely unmodified, except for one minor detail, the close button is no longer red when the window is active, as I felt that it was a huge blemish on an already picture perfect Aero Glass. One last thing, I really hope you enjoy this release, I've spent about a week on it, not as long as other themers, but this is simply a mod of the Windows Aero theme.As far as I know, this is the first Vista visual style to be released on Deviantart..
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when using high dpi (120 instead of 96) the start button will be replaced by the standard orb. thats disgusting.
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This looks real good but could someone tell me why it not working on my pc
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HI, can this be used on 64 bit? are there SysWOW64 dll's?
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I'm unsure, I'll assume no since I haven't built this on a 64-bit system.
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Nice! But the start button doesn't seem to have a noticeably unique mouseover image.
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Yeah I should have packaged it better, just download 1.2 and replace the .msstyle from 1.2 with this one and it should work.
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[link] here is the link though.
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Yeah a skin for vista before vista was even released
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Actually Dojan 5 longhorn is an entirely different os at first it was based on xp but then it evolved into its own beast microsoft knew they couldn't get it done in time so they went back and used xp as the base once more and created what is now vista.
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It looks good.
But the title is misleading.
Microsoft Longhorn is a operating system that never was fully created and never released.
Microdoft Windows Longhorn is the BETA of Vista.
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Great theme
Just a heads up this is in the wrong section the correct section is
Windows Vista Utilities>Visual Styles
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I think this theme was created before that section existed.. I might be wrong though.
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love the theme! i was wondering though, how are you creating this theme, like what program are you using because i would like to try to create my own theme...
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PE Explorer & Photoshop. 
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I've used this style since u put it on deivant...i love it man...but i was thinking...maybe u could add full transparency to the start menu like this one
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can this theme be used for windows xp... if yes please let me know
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Great theme, I love it! Is there a way to make the taskbar permanently clear even when an app window is maximized? Is it also possible to make the transparency true glass instead of frosted? Thanks for your great work!
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This is a great style! I am so glad i found something nice to get away from the Vista style taskbar.
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How do you install this then?
I was told about a UXTheme patcher for Vista RTM, does it work?
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Great job! And wrong @ last line... There is ONE more skin.. For beta 2
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So like where is the beta 2 skin at then?
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