If not to make things simpler for you, then for the sheer delight of it, it’s kind of fun to make your Windows PC look like a Mac. A full theme from FlyakiteOSX, sounds and all, makes it a breeze.
Want a Mac look on your Windows machine? Skins and themes would be nice, but there’s more to that when you want to REALLY emulate a Mac OSX interface entirely. There are plenty of programs available to emulate specific features of OSX, e.g. Finder, icons, etc [example].
But Flyakite OSX is a project that’s looking mature, and it comes with a very complete theme, including sounds and mouse cursors and Explorer customization, things you don’t typically expect from a simple ‘theme’.
The website goes for a Mac look itself, which is a bit painful, but it’s worth the download.
Before you go for it, some caveats
- The performance of your machine in general may be affected, of course. Not too much though.
- The theme does fundamentally change some core files like Explorer.exe but (a) it makes a backup so you can go back with a simple uninstall, and (b) it doesn’t screw up any additional functionality like my Groove button on my Explorer bar.
- I don’t like shadows under my windows, but that seems to built-in in the skin.
- Some things like Windows Media Player will not change. WMP has its own skin, which remains untouched.
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The shadows under the menu can be disabled. In your system tray in the taskbar, there will be an icon for the application Y’z Shadow. Just right click on that, and select disable.
Another warning, once you’ve used FlyaKiteOSX, it’s really hard going back to ‘regular’ Windows.
Hello,
I found this posibility after looking into Search Live.
When I try to download a Win98SE Update, I get:
“update.microsoft.com/mac > thanks for your interest in our products”
Microsoft seems not be bothered; but I am, as cannot make
an update download.
If someone knows of a solution, please let me know.
Best regards,
Adriaan
[...] These little icons appear in all the File — > Open boxes in Windows. Which is very handy. Among the several customizations you can make to this oft-used file dialog box is the ability to automatically sort the file names by name, date, size, or type, and the ability to see the file names in Details or Thumbnails views. (Btw, the skin you see in that screenshot above is from Flyakiteosx). [...]