Hello;
I´ve been using CrystalXP for about a year now on my Notebook without problems.
Now i got me a new PC with an Athlon 64 x2 processor, installed Windows XP x64 Edition and wanted to customize it with Crystal Clear.
So i downloaded the brico pack and installed it and the rocket dock shows up, but otherwise nothing changes. I´m told to reboot, so i do it. When the computer booted, there still was the standard XP login screen, but a new mouse cursor. So i was puzzled, but logged in anyway. But after abot 30 seconds after entering my password, it still says it´s loading my preferences. After a while the screen changes to the Crystal Clear background, but there aren´t any interfaces. No task bar, no icons, nothing, just the wallpaper and the mouse cursor.
I could still open the task manager and start programs from there, so after a bit of probing around i decided to uninstall the brico pack. After i rebooted, Windows had the grey classic style and warning messages kept popping up telling me about how files were missing or could not be loaded. My Windows installation was screwed up. I reinstalled Windows and tried to install Crystal clear again, with the same result.

I´m about to install Windows a third time now, can anybody tell me what i did wrong or what i´l have to consider when using Crystal XP? Or maybe it was just a bad download (probably not, since the installation didn´t report any errors)?

I really wand that Crystal clear style, but i´m afraid to bugger up Windows a third time.

Hi fishbong

Please read this, you can change your icons in X64 too, but not with a bricopack, there are lot of other tools (like Iconpackager and more)

Thank you for the fast answer.

I´m sorry for not having found this info myself, but i gotta say it´s rather hard to find, being at the bottom of the brico pack site.

Well anyway, its a real shame BricoPacks aren´t compatible with x64 Windows. Is that going to change anytime soon? Is Rocket Dock at fault here, seeing as its not compatible with x64 Windows as well?

Thank you.

Not yet, maybe in the future    

But you can customize your system with other tools

Sorry, I`m not sure about Rocketdock ...

Yeah i know, i´ve been using WindowsBlinds and StyleXP, but i found Crystal XP to be vastly superior. Also i LOVE Rocket dock, sucks that i can´t install it on my new comp,  or at least not under XP x64 Edition.

well....i have the same problem here
unfortunately, I didnt read that fucking note that x64 versions arent compatible (usually on setups it doesnt continue because of a pop up with the msg that the software is not 64bit compatible).
i just had the exactly same problem, after install, reboot, had nothing but cursor and taskmanager, but if i open
C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\explorer.exe then everything starts up and begins working, even if i deinstall that bricor packet Oo (some error msg of the yshadow and ubericon thing pops up, but i can just click them away).
the only remain problem is that i just see my x64-symbols in the control panel (x64 systems have a group of special tasks in the control panel) and the "standard" symbols:

are gone
what exactly did the setup do? i guess it modified the original control.exe and explorer.exe and replaced it with your modified vista explorer.exe and control.exe, where can i find them?
maybe thats the only problem for a working x64 vista inspirator^^

edit: guess i was wrong , the explorer.exe keeps shuting down itself from time to time Oo

Well... can some body please answer to him? I have the samen problem when I execute the 32-bit explorer.exe

Try to do a system restore to a point before the installation of the Bricopack.

yea do the system restore like legace said you wont lose all you programs and it saves time !