The company laptop that was assigned to me for work purposes turned out to be a real resource hog. No prizes for anyone who guessed that it was running on Vista.
So I kindly decided to make the laptop the way I want it. After backing up all the past interns' documents and, of course, my own, I installed Windows XP on it. Everyone kinda migrated to Windows 7, so there were some spare XP CDs lying around unused. This reminded me of the days when Windows XP just made its debut. Everyone practically gave me their Windows 98 CDs for free. Vista, which is basically Windows "fail" ME No.2, unsurprisingly had no unused copies floating about for me to grab (not that I would). No one ever bothered buying it.
So here I am fiddling around with Windows XP and I finally got reminded about what I really loved about it. Stability and hardware compatibility aside, it was so modifiable. There's a truckload of themes, skins, audio packs, and even guides to personalize your own copy of XP.
First I downloaded UXTender, which is a tiny program that patches your Windows XP in order to allow theme customization within the Desktop Appearance settings. And voila! Total awesomeness.
So I kindly decided to make the laptop the way I want it. After backing up all the past interns' documents and, of course, my own, I installed Windows XP on it. Everyone kinda migrated to Windows 7, so there were some spare XP CDs lying around unused. This reminded me of the days when Windows XP just made its debut. Everyone practically gave me their Windows 98 CDs for free. Vista, which is basically Windows "fail" ME No.2, unsurprisingly had no unused copies floating about for me to grab (not that I would). No one ever bothered buying it.
So here I am fiddling around with Windows XP and I finally got reminded about what I really loved about it. Stability and hardware compatibility aside, it was so modifiable. There's a truckload of themes, skins, audio packs, and even guides to personalize your own copy of XP.
First I downloaded UXTender, which is a tiny program that patches your Windows XP in order to allow theme customization within the Desktop Appearance settings. And voila! Total awesomeness.
Firefox using Black Office themeFollowing this, I remembered that I had been playing around with a funky piece of software a few years back. It goes by the name of BootSkin. It allows users to change the Windows XP boot up loading screen. There's a ton of boot up screens I could've downloaded off the net, but I decided to create my own anyway. Check it out:
The limitations to the image modes of the boot screen really screwed up the quality. I guess I'll just have to make do with what I have. Anyone who is interested in the boot up screen may drop me a comment and I'll email it over. In the meantime, I'll be spending my lazy, DSTified-longer Sunday afternoon tweaking my XP.
On a sidenote, I don't really get Daylight Savings Time. There's just no practical usage for it. Does it exist just so that people of America may boast about having sunlight all the way till 7.30pm? That's just cheating.
The limitations to the image modes of the boot screen really screwed up the quality. I guess I'll just have to make do with what I have. Anyone who is interested in the boot up screen may drop me a comment and I'll email it over. In the meantime, I'll be spending my lazy, DSTified-longer Sunday afternoon tweaking my XP.
On a sidenote, I don't really get Daylight Savings Time. There's just no practical usage for it. Does it exist just so that people of America may boast about having sunlight all the way till 7.30pm? That's just cheating.
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