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Change Vista’s Visual Style with hacked system files

March 21, 2007 by Jason

Changing the visual style of is something that has become very popular over the years with XP. In Vista, this is just starting to gain momentum with the release of a few cool hacked visual styles. These alternative visual styles are for the default glass style and offer slight tweaks on the design. Over time there will be more and more higher quality visual styles released for Vista.

If you want to get started, you will need to download the hacked visual style skinning engine files from Rafael Rivera’s site. Rafael has both and x64 versions available. These modified system files remove the requirement for visual style files to be digitally signed by Microsoft. If you need help replacing the system files with the modified files, check out my article on working with system files in Vista. Read More»