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How To: Make Your XP Look Like Mac OSX In 3 Simple Steps

1 August 2008 11,368 views 14 Comments

Alright. After I showed you how to make your XP look like Vista, some people asked me to post a guide to making your XP look like Mac OSX. Leopard, to be precise. There are two ways to accomplish the OSX look: the easy way – with a transformation pack, and the hard way – manually. I will, of course, show you how to do this the easy way, but if it for some reason doesn’t work for you, email me or comment and I’ll teach you to do it all manually. So here’s how it’s done the easy way:

Step 1: Get a transformation pack.

The best Mac OSX transformation pack for Windows XP is probably FlyakiteOSX. The creator’s website itself is worth the visit, but if it doesn’t load in your browser, get Firefox, and here’s a download link.

Step 2: Install

Run the installer and when you get to the following screen, MAKE SURE you check the box Create System Restore Point. The transformation pack will change a lot of system files and settings and although you should be able to uninstall easily later, you might find yourself in a mess if something goes wrong. This way you can always do a System Restore. Check any other options you want and you’re ready!

Step 3: Enjoy!

After the restart, you should be able to convince all, but the most die-hard Mac lovers that you have an OSX. This is what your desktop should look like now: Like other good transformation packs, this also leaves you a nice Mac OSX shutdown screen: …And a Mac OSX logon screen:

I’ll give FlyakiteOSX an excellent 5 stars. Note: The transformation pack might trigger your anti-virus protection as it changes some system files, but this is probably a false positive. Be careful though, and remember to back up!

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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14 Comments »

arsh said:

uh dear!! its gr8…..!! send me sum coOl trick abt ma windows XP ……..plzl plz

# 6 August 2008 at 12:58 pm

Eerik said:

Look through the blog, you should find loads more great tips for Windows XP.

# 7 August 2008 at 8:31 am

calvin said:

awesome

# 20 August 2008 at 5:28 am

BAS said:

nice blog

# 21 September 2008 at 10:36 am

Blah said:

Hey how do I turn my xp back?

# 11 February 2009 at 1:36 am

Shawn McBride said:

Works Great! Please keep me updated.
Thank you so much,

Shawn

# 6 March 2009 at 9:30 am

Proxy Unblockers Blog said:

Looks great! I am totally greed – 5 stars.
I’ve tried several transformation packs but this one looks amazing. Thank you!

# 22 March 2009 at 1:18 pm

Predator Dragon said:

I did this on my lap-top. Was helpful and was it was just good:)

# 1 April 2009 at 5:48 am

Musviq said:

i like this site thanks

# 1 April 2009 at 10:43 am

coolboy217 said:

nice but i wish you can geet the file, edit view stuff

# 15 May 2009 at 3:03 am

TheDesired said:

You can get it back by going to start menu > all programs > accessories > system tools > system restore . Here you can choose the date and get your XP look back

# 16 May 2009 at 5:22 pm

Jeremiah said:

Hey, I have flyakiteosx and it all works exept the skins for firefox and stuff like that and the toolbar at the top still looks like the windows xp one. can anyone please help me? jeremiah.stevens@prodigy.net

# 1 June 2009 at 1:08 am

Joseph Bailey said:

Blah said:

Hey how do I turn my xp back?
i say:
turn the theme to win xp

# 1 July 2009 at 6:39 am

FirebreathingDragon2 said:

To get the file, edit, view… on PC download Finderbar 1.5!!!

# 7 August 2009 at 6:01 pm

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