XP Powertoys

If you're running XP and you haven't seen these already you should have a look at the XP Powertoys. They're useful and occasionally fun utilities Microsoft put out for more advanced windows users. There's the essential Tweak UI, a graphing calculator, an advanced alt-tab screen (that shows a preview of the window you're alt-tabbing to - this is apparently a standard feature of Vista), tools for managing RAW files and lots of other cool stuff like that. It's well worth a look.

Originally Posted by jono1 If you're running XP and you haven't seen these already you should have a look at the XP Powertoys. They're useful and occasionally fun utilities Microsoft put out for more advanced windows users. There's the essential Tweak UI, a graphing calculator, an advanced alt-tab screen (that shows a preview of the window you're alt-tabbing to - this is apparently a standard feature of Vista), tools for managing RAW files and lots of other cool stuff like that. It's well worth a look.

Very cool tools on there
Just tried the 'Alt-Tab' thing, but since Im using programs such as 'Windowblinds', it kinda looks messed :P

windowsblinds messes things up in general I find. A much better idea is to just get a patched uxtheme.dll file and use visual styles.

I remember seeing these somewhere a while ago and thought about installing some of them. Well, that never happened as i forgot all about them. I'll install some now

thanks

Originally Posted by jono1 windowsblinds messes things up in general I find. A much better idea is to just get a patched uxtheme.dll file and use visual styles.

Do you have somewhere where there are some cool 'visual styles' around?
Because I love my current skin on windowblinds, but hate the annoying ad every time I turn the PC on :P

Well (assuming you're running XP SP2) you first need to download this and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file.
Then you can go to www.studiotwentyeight.com for some really great visual styles including mac and vista ones.
Once you've found the style you like, download it, extract the zip file to c:\windows\resources\themes then go to the display properties window, click on 'Appearence', and in the 'windows and buttons' dropdown menu, select the style you chose. or, if it doesn't show up in there, find the .msstyles file and double-click on that.