So, I've had the Windows 7 Transformation Pack on my computer for a while, and I'm really getting tired of the blue taskbar at the bottom. Is there any way I can change the color of the bar to like black or something?

I have no idea what the transformation pack is...



right click on desktop > personalize

^hes using xp. a transformation pack makes it look like 7.

nope. thats the down side of using a transformation pack. haha.

damn it. i need to get windows 7 but i dont have a dvd drive

I think you may be able to make a usb boot loader, but you have to have like a 5-8gb capacity USB with nothing on it.

How Do you know that he is using XP?

yup. and you can use this.
http://wintoflash.com/download/en/
its a piece of cake. but seriously bro. you dont need it. what are your specs? im not sure if you can handle aero which would suck.



i know all things.

I've tried the transformation pack before too, but there was always a problem with the two taskbars; the original Vista taskbar was beneath the Windows 7 taskbar. :\

I already checked the specs and there shouldn't even be any problems with downloading it. My hard drive has 80 gigs of memory, and I don't use any of my hard drive space except for installing programs. Everything else goes to my External Hard Drive.



I only have one with 4 gigs of space. :/

memory = ram
and i think that should be enough. im not sure if some of the torrents out there are zipped or not. but id they arent then it looks like most of them are 3-4gbs. sometimes it causes issues during the install but it will prob work. just try.

So pretty much, my ISP sucks. :P Everytime I start the torrent they shut off my Internet, so no Windows 7 for me unless I find one on katz.cd

orrrr, you could go to the library, or school lab ;)

Explain, I'm slow. :P

Well, you said that you internet provider shuts you off, or they have torrents blocked. So if you go to your school lab or the public library, good chances are they don't. So you can do it there.

I can't do it at school. I wish I could. They implemented this thing that basically records your screen the whole time you're logged on. And it's mandatory the teachers have up the program that brings up all of our screens on their computers. The closest library I have is like an hour away, so that's a no go haha.

Just buy it :P

I'm too lazy. :P Won't I need a DVD drive to load it? I just thought about that.

then use ubuntu. very often isp cant track what you are doing then. just use a virtual machine.
download virtual box, and download ubuntu 9.10 and then load it up. it will run the os like a program. and just give it 512 mb of ram. it will use that when it is running.

or use relakks or something. there are plenty of ways to use torrents anonymously.

or of course dont use a torrent. just use rapidshare. there are some rapidshare search engines out there.

So I just download the thing from the VirtualBox site and it runs Ubuntu?

They can't do that, Torrents are completely legal. It's just some things you can do with them are illegal.

That's like keeping everyone from driving because a few people run red lights.



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They can get away with quite a lot. They track how much you download, and if it is too much being downloaded, they find out what it is, and shut off your Internet. My friend downloaded a game from a Torrent, and then they called his house and told him to delete it or he will get his Internet shut off.

They can't do that either.

Well, it's happened before. :/ So explain to me how to get Linux to run with that .deb file I downloaded.

yes. just search youtube on how to run ubuntu in virtual box.


but basically just do new, then go through the stuff, give it 512mb of ram, and give it the expanding kind of storage. not fixed. give it 8gb or something then when it prompts you to, show it where the iso is. if it doesnt then click the ubuntu one and click settings, and then cd's or something, iso, and choose it.

that was from memory and prob makes no sense. lol.

ISPs can (sort of) track your Internet usage, regardless of what OS you use -- in fact, your IP traffic is OS-agnostic (it looks the same no matter what OS you use). The reason ISPs can detect that you're using BitTorrent is (a) BitTorrent generally operates over certain well-known ports (although this can be changed), and (b) BitTorrent packets look different from HTTP packets, which look different from POP3 packets, which look different from AIM packets, and so on. Combining these methods, ISPs can use traffic shaping to eliminate or reduce BitTorrent traffic on a network. That's actually the whole point of BitTorrent encryption -- to encrypt packets such that they won't look like BitTorrent packets.

In summary, switching to Ubuntu won't suddenly make it possible to use BitTorrent, if your ISP is filtering traffic (which some, like Comcast, have been known to do).

.deb is a debian package. It's an installer for a program, such as Firefox, in Debian.

aka you can't boot with a .deb file. You want a .iso