Its almost a month since  Windows 7 beta experience program had been closed .Geeks and and Windows Vista users now have Windows 7 on their desktop .Or probably they have the opportunity .But still many people are using Windows XP as their default OS .Cause they don’t have enough RAM and other system resources that offer a smooth run for Windows 7 . Here comes the use of transformation packs those which can convert Windows XP’s appearance to Windows 7 .

After the initial beta release of Windows 7 , many people started creating conversion packs for Windows XP .   I found few working Windows XP to Windows 7 transformation packs and here I am sharing them.

1. WIndows XP to Windows 7 transformation pack .

Windows XP  to Windows 7 changes wallpaper,  icons, bootscreen, Styles, Sounds, Login,Cursor and man other features of Windows XP desktop to Windows 7 .

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2. Transform Windows XP icons and notifications to Windows 7 by  patching user32.dll in Windows XP with that of Windows 7 .

A deviantart user has extracted Windows 7 user32.dll and made available to the Windows XP users .  He has also created an easy to use installer that can replace the files safely .

Windows 7 user32.dll changes  Icons , notifications and and UAC icon in windows XP .

Download Windows 7 user32.dll for Windows XP

3. Convert Windows XP to Windows 7 , without any transformation pack .

Vishal Gupta of askvg.com has a lot of tips and tricks on his site for the customization of Windows XP , Windows Vista and Windows 7 .

Here I am giving a link to one of his post which explains few methods to convert Windows XP to Windows 7 ,without any transformation packs .He has also produced a theme style that exactly takes Windows XP to Windows 7 looks .

Download AskVG refresh theme to transform Windows XP’s appearance that of Windows 7 .

There are many unwanted services in Windows 7, that makes the performance and speed of the installed machine to great level .Here is a few sets of registry tweaks that adds extra options to Windows 7 and there by improving productivity and speed.

Speed up Windows 7 using registry tweak-included :

1. If you are applying some themes in Windows 7 or replacing any file by patching , we need to take the ownership of some particular files . This registry tweak adds take ownership option to Windows 7 context menu . So its make s easy for you to apply the recent tips , tricks and hacks on Windows 7.

2. Tweaks and speed your Windows 7 context menus and sub menus .

3. Disables unwanted messages in Windows 7 .

4. Adds copy to and move to option in Windows 7 right click menu .

5. When compatibility issues occur or when a software is crashed in Windows 7 , these registry tweaks speeds up the closing time.

6. Speeds up Windows 7 by disabling network printers and scheduled tasks on Windows .

7. Removes the search in internet option that comes along when any unknown file type is opened in Windows 7 .

8. Improves the overall response time of menus , tabs and other Windows 7 components .

Download registry tweak to Speed up Windows 7 .

Download Free Windows 7 registry cleaner TweakNow PowerPack 2009

I hope you know to create slide shows and themes in Windows 7 desktop . These slide shows  make use of a set of specified wallpapers from PC . There is a new feature in Windows 7 that could be used to specify RSS feeds for desktop slide shows . So you could use your Flickr or  other RSS streams to build a slide show theme in Windows 7 .

The default Windows 7 slide show section for techknowl theme . (If I am using a set of wallpapers as sideshow )
Eg:  techknowl.theme

[Slideshow]

Interval=1800000

Shuffle=1ImagesRootPath=c:techknowlwallpaper

Item0Path=c:techknowlwallpaperocean.jpg

Item1Path=c:techknowlwallpapermountain.jpg

Item2Path=c:techknowlwallpaperriver.jpg

If you replace it with an RSS feeds .

[Slideshow]

Interval=10000

Shuffle=1

RssFeed=http://www.techknowl.com/atom.xml

Check out thispage to know more about theme structure in Windows 7.
You can read this article create windows 7 themes . After creating a .theme file , open it using a text file and change the above parameters .

After RSS feed theme installation , it would take certain time to load all the files from internet . The current build of Windows 7 has some problems related with the feed refresh time and RSS feed option in personalization control panel .This would get fixed in upcoming releases .

Istartedsomething.com has created few  RSS feed slide show themes in Windows 7 using high quality Flickr photo feeds .

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Enjoy RSS feed slide show themes in Windows 7 .

The default location of themes folder in a Windows 7 is C:WindowsResourcesThemes . All the available and installed themes can be found here . If you want to create a custom Windows 7 themes , the first step is to personalize your desktop . That is ,  arrange you sound schemes , desktop back ground color , screen saver , icon , mouse pointer etc . in a suitable way you like . All most all customizations on Windows 7 can be done from the personalize page , which can be accessed from right click menu .

After creating a suitable scheme(custom sound , background etc.) for your Windows 7 theme , right click and select personalize .

Just as shown in screenshot , there is an option to save theme .From the save dialog box drop down menu , select .themepack extension and save . A copy of the created theme will be saved to the default Windows 7 theme directory .