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Published: 2007-12-04 16:37:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 832751; Favourites: 881; Downloads: 623987
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Description
Presents...NEXTLevel
...the wait is over!
From now you can enjoy my newest visual style for Vista
Bring your desktop to the next level with the NEXTLevel!
VIEW FULL PREVIEW
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Package contains:
NEXTLevel visual style in 2 versions:
● modern taskbar
● alternate classic taskbar
Matching nature wallpaper (dual monitor versions available):
● widescreen
● fullscreen
| Ryan
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Installation:
Quick Guide:
To use custom visual styles you need to patch your system, via VistaGlazz or TuneUp Utilities
Next unpack 'NEXTLevel' folder to 'C:\Windows\Resources\Themes' (where C is the partition with Windows installed)
Now you can change the visual style by clicking any .msstyle file, or via 'Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Window Color and Appearance'
● Click here for the full installation guide ●
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I want to thank very much ~Michel8170 for his help and support
Also ~patrickgs for the help,
~UkIntel & ~psycoB for their great work on HEX reserching
And thank goes to Mando for allowing me to use his wallpaper.
Some parts of this theme are inspired by Thallos VS , a beautiful theme for Windows XP by `-kol
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Check out THIS custom shellstyle if you prefer topshell.
Check out also THIS sidebar skin to get more NEXTLevel.
Click here to get official NEXTLevel skin for the ObjectDock
Click here to get official NEXTLevel skin for the RocketDock
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Update v1.1:
27-03-08 -> NEXTLevel has been updated - I've included the most requested "features" such as "new" classic taskbar with custom orb and transparency on maximized windows
Check update log below for full information.
● NEW - version with classic taskbar + custom orb
● NEW - transparency in maximized windows
● CHANGED - overlay images in Alt+Tab menu
● CHANGED - background image when dragging files in Explorer
● CHANGED - redesigned sidebar of classic Save/Open file window
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NEXTLevel has been featured as DD
Big thanks to ~chalkley3 for suggestion and `manicho for featuring 
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
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Comments: 1069
hey this theme looks awesome i patched my system files and have installed other themes with the .theme extension but i can use this one any idea how to fix it so i can use this one? thannks
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Please follow the guide here [link]
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alright i got the side preview pane figured out
now all we need is a foobar2000 skin
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great skin- thanks for your hard work
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can i get this skin for xp ? if so please tell me how
where are the vista skins for xp?
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Not possible, there's no NEXTlevel for XP
Vista skins for XP? Check the Windows Utilities for visual styles...
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I cannot seem to apply this theme. Any help?
I click on the msstyle and try to use the personalization way, but neither works.
Running 64x vista.
Used VistaGlazz to patch.
*theme files work.
icons changed through stardock iconpackager
Also, what is the .ini file for?
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What happen when you double-click the .msstyles file?
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and i am quite sure that my files are placed in the right place
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very very nice theme. I was wondering if there was anyway we could or you could create another mod so that the two additional bars on the taskbar are removed. There's a little too much confusion on the taskbar.
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You should try the alternate taskbar then
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yeah i'm in the process of learning how to edit theme files. I'm good with image editing i'm just having trouble learning how to extract, and add things into themes.
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I mean the alternate taskbar in the package
There are 2 visual styles in the .zip
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what i meant is that i like the simple taskbars with no gradients or lines in them, just plain and evenly transparent. Thanks for the comment tho, and as i said very nice theme
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Beautiful and Excellent theme dude!!, thanks
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I can't seem to get the themes to show up in the customization window (right click desktop > Personalize > Theme > ?) but I can fire it up manually by going to the location where you install it and clicking the file itself.
Anyone else have this issue or am I just a noob?
(Wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter).
Thanks in advance!
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You're not a n00b, you simply don't read instructions 
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how do i use the 'holy sh7t' shellstyle?
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Apply the vs, and you've got it
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i did and it just looks like a grey version of the normal shellstyle
i mean the one with the image previews etc on the left of the explorer
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Not sure what do you mean. When you apply to whole vs you don't have to do anything else concerning the look of the windows explorer
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wish this would work with xp, looks great.
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No way, I got no WindowBlinds & I don't have Vista anymore
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Looks great, I can't wait to install it!
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I made a DeskMod with its theme,
was very good!
[link]
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This one is nice also, thanks dude.
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took a bit of doing to to get transparancy, but it works awesomely now, thx!
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How did you set up the transparency? I'm interested in it, as I'm creating a brand new vs
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I loaded em up with TuneUp, and at first that didn't give me transparancy, but it seems like it loads two version, one thats transparent and one thats not, the AT version being not transparent, so I used the other one, rebooted and presto!
one question tho, now when I get messages through msn or xfire, the icons in the tastbar don't blink (normally they go to orange and back when you get an IM), do you think this will work in your next VS?
other than that, awesome work, this is what my desktop looks like right now: [link]
on the left is my main monitor, and on the right is my smaller secondary monitor with the taskbar and everything
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Uhh the AT version has no transparency? Might be some error from your side. The AT version with alternate taskbar, then other one is older version with regular taskbar.
The button blinking... well it's the way I designed NEXTLevel. Don't pay attention to this function too much as I have set up blinking time to infinite.
The problem won't exist in Orion
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any one knows how to change the windows explorer text color? the grey text makes almost like it's all disabled, i want it to be black so it's more clear. great theme btw.
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This is complicated process.
I see nothing wrong with the colour text. Of course the problem may be that you've set a large transparency & got very light wallpaper, or this can be also a badly set up monitor's colours
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One of the best Aero replacement themes around!
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Hey man, I downloaded this just now and for some reason, when I click the visual style file it always comes up with the Vista Basic skin and not the Aero one like I wanted. My machine does support Aero (I'm using it now), but both folders NEXTLevel and NEXTLevel AT both seem to contain the same visual style.
Please help me sort this out because this is the only Vista VS that's actually any good.
WB ASAP Stu
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Thank you a lot
Hmm... how is it with other styles?
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Works fine with NV2 and NV3 from InvaderJohn. I'm using plain old Aero at this minute.
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