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deadmellotron
After taking forever to crack WindowsBlinds, I'm attempting to go at a Tiger Graphite theme, and I like what I got so far, but there's one thing that's irking me about the whole theme. The thing that is bugging me are my icons. I googled the themes around for graphite on XP, and all the icons look like they do on Macs, you know what I'm talking about? Like where it says Computer and how much space is being used, that kind of stuff. I would install the themes, but it's not available for my version of XP since I have Service Package 3.

This is what I have so far:

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Does anyone know what I can get my icons to look like they do on Mac?


And before you reply Joseph, my computer is doing just fine and it's not dying or anything. It's running exactly the same, lol.

Edit: Oh yeah, I took the screenshot before I changed the wallpaper, haha. I feel stupid.
Maccabee
Well with that dock there is an applet to add a trash can so you dont need it on your desktop and then use this icon



Add a hard drive icon to your desktop and right click it and go to customize and change it to this.

Then atleast you will have a desktop that looks complete.
deadmellotron
It won't let me change the icon. :/ It's saying it has to be an icon file.
Maccabee
Forgot about that part. It has to be converted to an .ico image.

http://iconverticons.com/
deadmellotron
Yeah, I just thought to do that, haha. I have to edit the thing first in Photoshop and get the white part out around it so it's transparent.
deadmellotron
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Alright, I got that all set now, but I'm not satisfied with how it looks. Is there a way to make the text span wider for the icons?

Edit: All I need to know now is how to get rid of the shortcut arrows. I tried getting rid of them by editing the registry, but it didn't work.


Edit (Again): Okay my friend google helped me on that. I'm trying to find some sort of widget that docks to the bottom right of the screen that monitors how much physical memory I'm using and like a memory meter for my hard drive and external hard drive. I found some on Yahoo, but their widgets for that kind of stuff wouldn't move, it stayed stationary, no matter what preferences I used. Is there anything you would suggest?
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