Turn Windows Vista into Mac OS X visually

Posted by Martin in Cool, Entertainment, Operating Systems, Windows  Tags: , , , , , , ,

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Microsoft pimped up Windows Vista quite a bit when you compare it visually to Windows XP. It seems to me that they have put lots of resources into the design which probably should have gone elsewhere but that’s my personal opinion. If you run Windows Vista and like the way OS X is designed you could install Vista OS X which transforms the Windows Vista theme to that of Mac OS X.

The Mac OS X theme can be installed on all 32-bit editions of Windows Vista and is fully Service Pack 1 compatible. UAC has to be disabled before installation, it will fail otherwise. The user is asked during installation to check the elements that he wants to install. He can choose eight elements in total that include Screensavers, Wallpapers, the Visual Style or the Dock.

I suggest you check all of them to make sure you get the full OS X design. Minimalists will have to check at least the System Files and the Visual Style to be installed. The System Files contain the uxtheme patch which is necessary to apply the visual theme and additional new designs for the boot screen, welcome center, buttons and so on.

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The Windows Vista OS X visual style comes with an uninstaller that completely removes the theme from the system again.

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rruben says, April 8th, 2008   

Heej funny,

I’m gonna try this out.

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Vista OSX V3 - Tu Windows al “estilo Mac” | Incubaweb says, April 8th, 2008   

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Theme Windows Vista OS-X-Style with Vista OS X [Featured Windows Vista Download] » Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done says, April 8th, 2008   

[...] Windows Vista only: Windows XP users with a serious Mac crush have FlyakiteOSX to make their desktop resemble, if not work like, a Mac, but Vista users—even those upgraded to Service Pack 1—now have Vista OS X for a similar OS paint job. The installer (unfortunately) requires that you disable User Account Control to move forward, but you’ll get screensavers, wallpapers, a “Dock,” and more goodies, all accessible from the basic “Themes” menu. The gHacks blog states that the theme completely uninstalls itself when you’re ready to move back to Windows; I haven’t tried it myself, so let us know your experiences in the comments. Vista OS X is a free download for Windows Vista systems only. Vista OS X [via gHacks] [...]

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Change Windows Vista To Mac OS X « Techno Point says, April 8th, 2008   

[...] { April 8, 2008 @ 4:45 pm } · { Windows } { Tags: mac, os x, themes, vista } Windows Vista only: Windows XP users with a serious Mac crush have FlyakiteOSX to make their desktop resemble, if not work like, a Mac, but Vista users—even those upgraded to Service Pack 1—now have Vista OS X for a similar OS paint job. The installer (unfortunately) requires that you disable User Account Control to move forward, but you’ll get screensavers, wallpapers, a “Dock,” and more goodies, all accessible from the basic “Themes” menu. The gHacks blog states that the theme completely uninstalls itself when you’re ready to move back to Windows; I haven’t tried it myself, so let us know your experiences in the comments. Vista OS X is a free download for Windows Vista systems only. Vista OS X [via gHacks] [...]

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Theme Windows Vista OS-X-Style with Vista OS X [Featured Windows Vista Download] · TechBlogger says, April 8th, 2008   

[...] Windows Vista only: Windows XP users with a serious Mac crush have FlyakiteOSX to make their desktop resemble, if not work like, a Mac, but Vista users—even those upgraded to Service Pack 1—now have Vista OS X for a similar OS paint job. The installer (unfortunately) requires that you disable User Account Control to move forward, but you’ll get screensavers, wallpapers, a “Dock,” and more goodies, all accessible from the basic “Themes” menu. The gHacks blog states that the theme completely uninstalls itself when you’re ready to move back to Windows; I haven’t tried it myself, so let us know your experiences in the comments. Vista OS X is a free download for Windows Vista systems only. Vista OS X [via gHacks] [...]

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Make Vista look like OS X | JJjunk says, April 8th, 2008   

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James says, April 9th, 2008   

About an hour after I installed this, Windows Defender ran a quick scan and found a Trojan.Dumper. I confirmed this later with ClamWin Anti-Virus. This is the first virus I’ve had in over a year, so I’m pretty darn sure it came from this download. Especially since the Trojan was located in the Install Shield directory under Program Files. First time gHacks has, potentially, let me down. Otherwise no harm was done and the rest of the site’s content is awesome, keep up the good work.

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Martin says, April 9th, 2008   

James did you check the setup file or program directory ? What was the name of the virus ? Maybe it was a false positive ? Can you post the log ?

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Martin says, April 9th, 2008   

I did redownload the file and scanned it with AVG and it did not find a virus. Do you still have the installer on your system ?

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ranger_cole says, April 9th, 2008   

I also found trojan with this download. windows defender found it.

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Martin says, April 9th, 2008   

As I said it might be a false positive

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Trasformare Vista in OS X con Vista OS X « Marco e Massimiliano’s Weblog says, April 9th, 2008   

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Computing Freeware: Turn Windows Vista into Mac OS X - 10 Daily Things says, April 10th, 2008   

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Veasna says, April 11th, 2008   

Sound Rock!!! I’m testing it now.. Let see what would happen. It’s Winmac VistaX.

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dboi says, April 13th, 2008   

AVG didn’t detect the trojan but Windows defender did. I went ahead with it anyway (and probably regret doing it, not because of the ‘virus’ but what happened).

Things messed up during the installation and a system restore point was not created. So I had to go back through another restore point, which meant removing Vista SP1 altogether and reinstalling it.

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AT says, April 14th, 2008   

hi dboi. I had the same problem, the programm didnt create a restore point and now, I can’t either remove vista os x totally from my computer nore i can’t setup the osx theme and my sidebar and taskbar are grey and i cant change it. please help…

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Kitsune says, April 15th, 2008   

In my opinion. This is horrible. The help didn’t even help me. To uninstall, it told me to go to the vista os x folder. What God Damned Folder? In Windows/Resources/Themes ? In Program Files? Now Im stuck with this theme, and can’t get rid o it with system restore. ‘Safe Installer’ my arse!

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Mattay says, April 17th, 2008   

i got a trojan to and removed it and everything was messed up….it sucked all i got was the dock and the background and i chekked everthing

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paul damaskinos says, April 23rd, 2008   

installed okay,but didnt like it,no transparencey.used the uninstall,which said it is now uninstalled,when restarted windows, still have oxs bootsceen,logon, welcome screens,and ugly folder icons even in animated start panel icons.tried recovery,deleted all the folders i could find,and its still there,if you are just curious like i was,do not install this program.

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matt says, May 2nd, 2008   

I installed this - and had a heck of a time getting rid of it. i found an uninstall folder in program files\rk

recovery doesn’t work either.

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