Need Help Newbie

[icepik09]

Well I've got my Dell Laptop and would like to have a MAC OS X theme installed the full thing with the windows different and everything, I'm not sure what build of windows 7 I have all I know is I have windows 7 home premium which was the free upgrade from dell when I bought this laptop, could someone please send me a link or something to where I can just click and install a MAC theme or give me instructions on how to have it thanks guys

 

[derekimo]

Welcome to the forum,

Here's some links to check out,

Browsing deviantART

Snow Leopard for Windows 7 by =sagorpirbd on deviantART

Mac 7 Theme by ~Aaron-A-Arts on deviantART

Here's a tutorial on how to enable themes,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/34579-enabling-custom-themes-windows-7-a.html

Post back if you need more info or help.

 

[icepik09]

thanks man im still having trouble tho, i try to take ownership of the explorer folder like it says and when i click apply it says access denied??

 

[derekimo]

Which theme are you using?

 

[icepik09]

the snow leaopard one

 

[derekimo]

It doesn't say anything about taking ownership.

 

[icepik09]

After it activates it, it makes you go to the folder you extracted when you go to the folder and click on the themes nothing happens.... so theres a note file called instructions and it gives you steps but ive only gotten so far

 

[derekimo]

OK, have you got this take ownership on your computer yet,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

 

[icepik09]

only thing i got to was backing up the shell32.dll Explorerframe.dll and the other file thats a .dll and next it ask to take ownership of the explorer folder but everytime i try it says access denied

 

[derekimo]

Hang on a minute, I asked someone to come and help you out.

 

[icepik09]

ok thank you, sry about this i was a pro with xp and somewhat good with vista but doin the themes on 7 seems complicated as crap, what im pretty much tryin to do is do a complete conversion to look like a MAC OS ive already got safari and all that just need the theme for one lol

 

[derekimo]

ok thank you, sry about this i was a pro with xp and somewhat good with vista but doin the themes on 7 seems complicated as crap, what im pretty much tryin to do is do a complete conversion to look like a MAC OS ive already got safari and all that just need the theme for one lol

That's alright you've got the best help on it's way.

 

[icepik09]

ok cool thanks man

 

[Arc]

Snow Leopard for Windows 7 by =sagorpirbd on deviantART

Leave this one . There are really better things, like Snow Leopard for Win7 Beta2 by =giannisgx89 on deviantART and JONGHYUNPARK Vr.2.1.7 by ~jpyss on deviantART .

Want to replace explorer.exe and explorerframe.dll ? First run the take ownership regedit as Derek supplied . Now right click on explorer.exe, take ownership of it , and rename it to explorerOLD.exe or something other. Place the supplied explorer in place of the original.

Do the same for explorerframe.dll, too .

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

ok thank you, sry about this i was a pro with xp and somewhat good with vista but doin the themes on 7 seems complicated as crap, what im pretty much tryin to do is do a complete conversion to look like a MAC OS ive already got safari and all that just need the theme for one lol

Well Windows 7 is pretty tight when it comes to permission . If you couldn't get permission then Turn Off UAC (Changing it to Never Notify) then reboot the System once. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/299-user-account-control-uac-change-notification-settings.html then Right Click on Explorer.exe and click on Take Ownership. Make sure you followed this Tutorial first http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html to enable Take Ownership shortcut. A command prompt will blink and disappears. Then try to rename explorer.exe to explorer.bak and copy the custom explorer over then Log off and Log back in.

Good Luck,
Captain

Edit: Didn't see your replay Arc

 

[Arc]

Didn't see your replay Arc

It's ok ,Captain I hope you can help anybody far better than me

But I forgot to tell the OP that it is to restart the machine (or explorer) to take the changes effect .

 

[Arc]

Moreover, usually replacing explorer.exe makes only one change , that is it changes the start button. As the download includes the start button, Windows 7 Start Button Changer may be applied to change the button insted of changing\replacing explorer.exe .

 

[icepik09]

oh crap guys i did the explorer.exe thing and now i restart and the screen stays on the logon saying please wait and it keeps blinking the only way i can get into my desktop is goin into safe mode ?? what just happened lol, btw if i can ill post a video from my palm pre on here

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

oh crap guys i did the explorer.exe thing and now i restart and the screen stays on the logon saying please wait and it keeps blinking the only way i can get into my desktop is goin into safe mode ?? what just happened lol, btw if i can ill post a video from my palm pre on here

I have seen that before !! Did you use UxStyle Core Beta to enable custom theme ?? If so go to the Safe Mode and try to uninstall it. If that fails the do a System restore. I had a similar experience with it. This happen if we try to patch the uxtheme.dll and run the software it's either one of them. I would go with patching uxtheme.dll

Good Luck,
Captain

 

[Arc]

As an alternative, you may follow this tutorial : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/28377-theme-how-apply-custom-themes.html . It involves patching of three dll files, and it applies the theme properly