Longhorn Transformation

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 09 Mar 2005, 09:41

Hey guys. I'm busy downloading this and gonna try it tonight. Wish my pc good luck. I'll let you know how it went tomorrow.

http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php ... 33&catid=3

DEeRaY · Post by **DEeRaY** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:17

I have a copy of longhorn too
Very very slooooooow!!!

If you have the same probs let me know i have a HUGE list of tweaks to get it upto speed...

Which release do you have???

DEeRaY · Post by **DEeRaY** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:22

oops

Nevermind this is the tranformation pack
hehe never mind

dammod · Post by **dammod** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:30

Is there one for win2000?

Post by **maxxis** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:52

Thus far I have only heard bad things about the transformation packs. Stuff going seriously wrong.

Let me know how it turned out.

dammod · Post by **dammod** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:54

Slightly off topic: will Longhorn be 64bit? When is it coming out?

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:56

Yeah, i heard too, but i've been bored with no more games etc, so i've started with new themes, backgrounds etc. and came across this. It's something to do.

Post by **maxxis** » 09 Mar 2005, 10:59

Im busy downloading it. Super slow connection. Going to install it on my work PC. Rather not stuff up my home machine.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 09 Mar 2005, 11:19

The connection is slow. I usually get 50-80k/sec but it's gong at 2.5 (slower than analogue) at the moment. I'm not cappedd so they've probably limited the bandwidth on their server.

Post by **maxxis** » 09 Mar 2005, 11:25

What connection do you have?

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 09 Mar 2005, 11:26

ADSL 512K 3gig cap.

Garret · Post by **Garret** » 09 Mar 2005, 12:07

dammod : There are equivalent 64-bit versions for all the tech previews.

dammod · Post by **dammod** » 09 Mar 2005, 12:08

OK, cool, thanks.

HdB · Post by **HdB** » 09 Mar 2005, 12:15

Try here, it seems faster so far:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/L ... -2332.html

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 09 Mar 2005, 12:19

HdB wrote:Try here, it seems faster so far:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/L ... -2332.html

lol, i've just finished it. Permanent connection so I just let it run. Thanks anyway.

Post by **maxxis** » 09 Mar 2005, 12:19

Thanks man. Already 50% done so I'll wait.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:16

Ok, so last night I did it and .................NOTHING. It changedd my shutdown and login screens and the layout of the folder toolbars like back-forward-file menus etc. But ever so slighty. The desktop is just a htm CSS style which I couldn't get right anyway so it just came up with a blank white screen and unaligned options for calender etc. My opinion: waste of download time. I just removed it and am back to normal.

I'm looking at Style XP. What "themers" are you guys using to enhance your windows look. I've never been for it but boredom with my machine has taken it's toll.

Post by **Anakha56** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:18

had/have the same problem as you Bio have d/l stylexp to see if you need that to get some of it working. will try tonight, whats wierd is how it doesnt change your boot screen. anybody actually succeded at getting this thing to work?

DEeRaY · Post by **DEeRaY** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:41

Yes!

'Right click on your background and goto appearance
Then change the drop down box at 'windows and buttons'
There is were all the themes are

I have one prob though.....
My Side bar doesnt load properly....
Its looks like a half loaded web page, Other wise it looks spiffy!!!!

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:43

Yep, your half loaded webpage sidebar is how my whole background looks. It's the sidebar I mainly wanted to see but even the loaded one doesn't look like it will impressive.

Post by **Anakha56** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:43

i had (uninstalled it) the same prob with the sidebar. everytime i look under themes the theme isnt there. ive nistalled stylexp but i get there themes under the them window not longhorn one had to use stylexp to build it up.

DEeRaY · Post by **DEeRaY** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:45

there actually quite a lot of themes there
And i think they the GOOD!!

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 10 Mar 2005, 11:57

I heard Longhorn has 2 million lines of code. Now that should keep a compiler busy for a couple of days!

Garret · Post by **Garret** » 10 Mar 2005, 12:44

Capanno_Del_Kimakigami : where did you hear/read that? Cheers.

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 10 Mar 2005, 13:35

I heard it from my cousin. :p

Ill ask him where he heard that. He's studying Computer Science.