visualprefs type thing for windows?

[cycloid]

i'm sick of windows being boring looking (no "get another os" answers please i have 4 computers already!) and want to skin it a little. the "appearance" prefs are a bit limiting especially since one can only choose the color of "3d objects" and it auto generates the highlight/shadow color cos i'd like to have a single solid border around stuff generating a chunky feel rather than a same-old pretend 3d feel. thoughts? anyone on windowblinds? (98se) does it really clog the system up? etc.

[cycloid]

ok, found what i was looking for, it's called 3d color changer  (3DCC) and does pretty much what i wanted, i.e. give you full controll over the palette inc higlinght/shadow colors, i've also found something called eppidesktop which lets you replace system gadgets (inc the start button) with bitmaps, but i havent played with that yet

[cycloid]

just to clarify

1. i have an amiga
2. i use viaualprefs + fullpalette on it
3. i wanted to know if anyone knew of anything similar for windows

= where the fork else could i ask such a question!?


anyway, eppiedesktop, which replaces the help,min,max,restore,close,start menu and scroll arrow "gadgets" works a treat, it apparently just patches the image pointer table in memory in a cunning psudeo amigan fashion, unfortunatley it does not support a few other gads, such as the resize gadget,check boxes etc (apparently there are other "patches" that do, though) and i cant figure out if/how to do transparency. but it works and because it's a hack as opposed to a task it doesnt crash, heh!

anyway stuff like this can be found and rated at virtualplastic.net if anyone feels forced to use windows but likes to discuise it :-)