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Artist's Note

Mod of my previous theme. Made a number of minor changes to make it cleaner, such as different borders, new scrollbars, start menus, taskbar buttons etc.

Skinned elements:
- Visual Style
- Winamp
- Foobar
- Miranda
- Styler Toolbar
- Launchy
- Samurize Config
- Gehrunnerjunge
- Windows Logoff
- Wallpapers


Hope there's a few of you that find a use for it :)

Icons - Takmek for Iconpackager.
Wallpaper - http://zyklophon.deviantart.com/art/Hardwood-w-Lights-66313387

Readme.txt for instructions.


Licensing: the artist has specified that ports and mods are allowed.

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Comments (25)

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willister says:

Great update to an already awesome theme :D

Fri, Dec 28th at 03:02pm (1 year ago)
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IcEmAn-X says:

first of all: this is truly awesome! great work!

but i found a little bug in the tahoma & segoe subthemes.
the blank font for the startmenu and the username doesn't seems to work correctly.

here's a little screenshot: http://img4.imagebanana.com/img/b3q5s6bl
/ashenII_bug.jpg


despite of that, it's just great! :-)

Fri, Dec 28th at 04:23pm (1 year ago)
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raoul says:

Oh noes. I forgot to change them for the other 2 font options -.-'

Thanks for pointing it out.

Fri, Dec 28th at 05:36pm (1 year ago)
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raoul says:

*updated to correct those bugs.

Fri, Dec 28th at 06:33pm (1 year ago)
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IcEmAn-X says:

thx for the fix! now it's definitly one of my personal favs of 2007... ^-^

Fri, Dec 28th at 11:41pm (1 year ago)
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ParTKiD says:

Raoul I love seeing others grow, as minor as the improvements seem they really do stand out so much.. great update.

Sun, Dec 30th at 05:41pm (1 year ago)
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raoul says:

Thanks for the kind words :) Glad you tried it out. My graphics skills suck, but this is prolly the closest I cld get to making my desk to look like I wanted it to :P

Mon, Dec 31st at 04:17pm (1 year ago)
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floms87 says:

awesome i simple love it

Mon, Dec 31st at 08:35pm (1 year ago)
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Congrats for the feature, raoul. Really nice!

Tue, Jan 1st at 08:25am (1 year ago)
2962

Great theme! But, could you make a *slightly* lighter version and make the titlebar texts bold?

Thu, Jan 3rd at 02:17am (1 year ago)
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Simieski says:

Yeah I agree with byterrhythm could we have a Avantegarde LT Medium Caps version of this?? Please dont make it lighter tho, Dark styles are where its at!

Sat, Jan 12th at 08:58am (1 year ago)
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raoul says:

Updated. Sorry guys, no grey/lighter version. Feel free to make your mods and upload em :P

Mon, Jan 14th at 01:37pm (1 year ago)
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raoul says:

Display Properties > Appearance > Change fonts.

Mon, Jan 14th at 01:37pm (1 year ago)
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ohmy says:

omfg! YOU made this? this is the theme that made me want to try a hand at my own dark VS.

Sun, Jan 27th at 08:47pm (1 year ago)
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o0whaaat says:

this theme is so sick.....keep up the good work and im using it!!!

Thu, Mar 27th at 04:08pm (1 year ago)
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AvanavA says:

Hey thx for the theme im just having one minor problem. Im new to this and I maybe its just me, but my start menu is not changing. Its just the Windows XP classic menu and im not sure how to change it. Plz help :)

Wed, Sep 3rd at 06:45pm (1 year ago)
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AvanavA: Visual Styles don't skin the Classic Start Menu. :)

Wed, Sep 3rd at 07:55pm (1 year ago)
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AvanavA says:

alright.. heres what it exactly says on the start menu, "Windows XP Home Edition". The start menu is grey with the " WXPHE" on the side of the menu, which is a fading blue-black. The font has changed to this ^^ provided font, but the start menu doesnt look anything like the ^^ picutre. I have windows XP, and im pretty sure its not the "Classic" menu. (Forgive me for the wrong information in the previous post).

Wed, Sep 3rd at 08:27pm (1 year ago)
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AvanavA says:

Nvm i got it thanks jg-visuals

Wed, Sep 3rd at 08:30pm (1 year ago)
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caligula says:

why am i just not seeing the .msstyles like i saw clearly when i downloaded the first ashen?

Mon, Oct 6th at 07:44pm (1 year ago)
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raoul says:

Avana, go to Start > Settings > Taskbar & start menu. Then change the style from 'classic start menu' to 'start menu'.

Caligula, sowee, but Im not sure what you're asking.

Cheers.

Wed, Oct 8th at 06:20am (1 year ago)
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t-bon3 says:

This is the only theme I use, stylish, space efficient, and it looks great on a Thinkpad laptop, it matches the Thinkvantage design perfectly, but;
Ashen seems to have a visual bug when windows are grouped on the taskbar, the vertical 'stack' of taskbar buttons has a strange gray horizontal bar across the uppermost button.
See this screenshot for an example:
http://www.fsiglobal.com/temp/stack.png

Fri, Oct 24th at 05:24am (1 year ago)
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t-bon3 says:

This is the only theme I use, stylish, space efficient, and it looks great on a Thinkpad laptop, it matches the Thinkvantage design perfectly, but;
Ashen seems to have a visual bug when windows are grouped on the taskbar, the vertical 'stack' of taskbar buttons has a strange gray horizontal bar across the uppermost button.
See this screenshot for an example:
http://www.fsiglobal.com/temp/stack.png

Fri, Oct 24th at 05:24am (1 year ago)
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Jeidor says:

hey dude i love this theme its so simplistic.. however there was one thing that bugged me it was the difficulty i had in seeing when i received a msg from msn because the flash bar was very simliar to the normal one. i hope you don't mind but i modded your theme and changed the flash bar to oj. i have another problem and its that i can't keep the original shellstyle you made when i modded the theme. how do i keep the white shellstyle and stop the blue one coming on?

Sun, Nov 9th at 05:57am (11 months ago)
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another perfect theme from you =^._.^=

Tue, Jul 14th at 04:37pm (3 months ago)


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