Ok Fans of macs I have done my reserch and checked it twice and I now present my tutorial on how to make your windows XP desktop look like a Mac operating system. For those who think its really hard your wrong and without any more jiber jaber lets get started.

Step 1: The Downloads
Ok for this to work your going to need some items to make it work.
The first one is the skin to make your windows look like a mac.
Its called Panther you can download it here.
Second your gonna need a doc for your programs. The best free one out there is Yz's dock and you can download it here The dock
Thirdly every good mac desktop needs a program to run what are called widgets. There are two good programs out there called Konfabulator, which is a shareware program that reminds you to register it every seven days and the registration is only $20 USD. Also there is one out there called Samurize
which is freeware. I prefere Konfabulator but its up to you. Download Konfabulator here and Download Samurize here.
Finally no mac desktop is complete without the icons which can be found hre.

Step 2: Applying the skin

Put the skin in a folder somewhere on your pc. Right click on your desktop and click properties and from your select style screen go to browze and go to the folder you put the skin in and apply it.
Your desktop should now look like this,


Step 3: The rest of the applications

Ok where in the final stretch All you need to do now is move your taskbar to the top. Run the Yzdock installer and add your favorite programs to it. If you want to add a trash bin follow the instructions here
Finally install Konfabulator or Samurize and run a widget. If you have konfabulator you know how now.

Your final desktop should look kind of like this:


Now for you people who want one quick program to install the skin and doc you can use Flyakite it makes your whole computer look like the Mac os

You can download it here from here

Hope you like it and give me some feed back.



This post has been edited by KuBi: Jul 15 2005, 10:58 PM

I'm glad you wrote another one. Personaly this may be easier then the last one(though the last one is still easy). I changed the name of the topic because it looks like the older one, just to keep you safe .

Really nice tutorial man, good job and thanks for the contribution! Though next time try to go for origanality please .

Well, a good tutorial you got there man. I have a program that can easily change your Win XP desktop to a Mac-like desktop. It is called Aston and it is a good program at that.

One thing I like about this very program is that it considerably increases your computer's speed. And I mean, it really does that. I aint blabbing about this one. I have tested it on this one and I have had my friends rest it too and every one had the same story to tell after having installed the program into their respective computers.

Why dont you guys go try it out. I bet you'll like it.

Kevin Rose mentioned Aston way back when in an episode of The Screensavers....Will Aston change everything? After installing it, will I have the dock bar at the bottom?

No you won't have the dock on the bottom. I just downloaded it and tryed it out. I didn't like it too much. What I had was the status bar on the bottom, a drop down menu on the side. And a few drop down menus on the top. No dock. I changed it back the second I got it, I don't like having to go Into Start > Program Files just to get to the program that's on my desktop(Desktop Theme I believe, die!).

I guess i'm a lil late, but Konfabulator is now free.. lol So make haste my friends, btw, excellent tutorial bro. I already had panther, but now, i've got the dock and widgets too! awesome!

nice tutorial... but i'm never gonna use it. i think that if u use all those windowblind thingy's it will slow down your computer. And i allready had a couple of problems with them.

and, I HATE MAC!

Like wassie, nice tutorial but I like the windows themes way too much more than a Mac.

I just get free themes for windows blinds and stuff. I don't care if it slows down my computer, it is already slow. But once again, very nice tutorial.

Im using Windows Vista. And the theme on that is so much nicer than MAC's theme =D