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once again... dont worry about it.... "driver integration" is there for you to use, not use, worry about, and make you work more. the dat files are a form so the windows installation can read and do something with, not for you to just copy your drivers in and expect windows to know what to do with them... select the inf for your driver, nLite will integrate them... dont worry about the $OEM$ directory or anything inside of it...

@nuhi <3 @voltaic we can never forget this is a microsoft product. digitally signed could be ANYTHING...

@prathapml I'm currently using this theme in XP+SP2 without any problems at all, have been for about a week now. I was going to be nice enough to check out flyakite's theme and give it a throw, only there is one very big problem with this, the site no longer exists.

@Krezno the sig is actually pretty nice. @Wasim i really dont think MSFN really cares at all.... its not tall, not wide enough to extend the size of ANYONE's web browser window, AND the image isnt being stored on MSFN's servers so they couldnt care less about the bandwidth it is taking up. [EDIT #1] and its an actual 'signature', its "informative", not just a normal picture of random crap...

thanks a lot for this. i seen this a long time ago and lost it sense then. i have been using the theme from www.dumbassjones.com but ive noticed slight problems with it.

thanks newdles. when i created this thread was the first time i visited themexp.org i download say about 5-6 visual styles from the site, all but 1 being zip files. I didnt think anything of it (prolly should have) after double clicking, it asked to install theme... this was fine. then i was blessed with windows for toolbars and other crap. Then i go to my add/remove programs to see "themexp.org something or other" along with like 3-4 ad applications. As a first time visitor of themexp.org i think this is pathetic. i download stuff for linux all the time and NEVER have to deal with this kind of s***. i go to download a simple little theme to make my desktop a little more enjoyable and i GET A SPECIAL LITTLE f***ING GIFT ALONG WITH IT. It's stuff like this that makes windows more enjoyable then linux, going to a pretty "windows users community site" and being blessed with the opportunity to use wonderful spyware with the other 100,000 people out there. PS: Im not trying to start a "linux > windows" war here. im trying to state the linux community is a little more 'friendly' (INSERT my 10 page rant here) C:\> type C:\XP\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 127.0.0.1 themexp.org

an 'online' snapshot is something i wouldnt recommend. im not sure where you would go about for research on this. I would assume you would base it off of PC-DOS so you have access to NTFS and FAT32. pretty much learn about pc-dos, how to do a boot sequence, the tools required in pc-dos for partitioning/formatting/network communication (be it ftp/http/ smb/cifs. then its up to you to design a frontend for it. i guess you could use Windows XP Embedded if you can get your hands on it (this is what Acronis TrueImage uses i believe) otherwise the best help i can give you is this link God's Personal Search Engine

this is a project i think everyone should do. First we need access to write assembler in php. just so i can say "i compiled my program at the exact same time as my compiler" (JIT compilation get it... ha ha funny joke ) something about compiling 100,000 lines of code with an interpreted language compiler, just sounds amazingly cool and yet very funny at the same time. Now when this compiler can compile itself then were good (lets see how long it takes someone to catch this)

Judging by the 'Snapshot Technology Information' Im going to assume you mean Snapshot as in Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage. Designing one if these applications isn't exactly the easiest, and depends how your going to do it. You can create the image no problem. What you have to think of is... "boot disk, select image and partition/hard drive, format partition, extract image. If your expecting to be able to do this in VB or C# you have another thing coming. doing something like this would require extensive C knowledge (i guess you could do it in C++ but not recommended) and ASM if you plan to write this completely from scratch. I guess you could hack PC-DOS with some ntfs/fat32 drivers, your own code for the image format, and design a simple frontend for it all. I would tell you right now, judging by the question and being here (no offense to anyone, i couldnt do this either) that this is a bigger bone then you asked for.

This isnt a question of "do i go left or right". its more of "what do i want to do" "Im getting tired of VB (cause it sucks ) so i want something different but not a lot harder" ... maybe you should go toward C#. "I want the possibility of doing a lot more with the simplisity of the .net framework" ... C++.NET is where you wanna be, you get the power of C++ with the simplisity of the .NET Framework. "I wanna be hardcore and design an OpenGL First-Person-Shooter" or "I wanna learn more of the system and go a little deeper into controlling everything myself ie: memory, structures, etc." ... then you probably want to go straight C++ ive played with C# and C++ quite a bit. Im not sure i want to touch C++.NET so there you have it... i cant vote 3 times so i wont vote at all

I just figured i would tell everyone that you may want to revert from visiting themexp.org very often... My first visit and 1 of few themes i downloaded from there contained a lot of adware/spyware that i REALLY didnt want. to top it off this is a fresh windows install from about 3 hours ago that i get to do again tomorrow. THANK YOU THEMEXP.ORG!!!!!!

Very nice. I think you have done a great job. I just got done downloading about 4 of your themes. thanks a lot