how do i change my xp icons into vista instantly without installing bricopacks?. i also want to change my boot interface to vista. i installed vistaCG theme but the folders are not replaced. and there are no sidebars. do i miss something?. what do i have to do with shellstyle.dll? thanks in advance for your replies

You can use Vista Rainbar to get the sidebar. To change the icons, you can use something like IconTweaker or IconPackager and use a Vista icon pack.

 
thanks for replying, i used icontweaker, and and installed the vista theme on the tweaker but theres only 12 icons available, the hard disk's icon looks like the recycle bin, anyway can you please give me a good vista icon pack link? thanks

 
Bricopacks are the easiest way to do it..

 
im afraid of using bricopacks   it may cause some errors  

Why aren't you afraid of changing the boot screen then? That could cause even bigger problems Trust me, the Bricopacks are safe to use..

Truly Talking, and as Legace said, bricopacks is the easiest and safetiest way to customize your windows XP user interface. Bricopacks comes with its own set of modification method which is same to all modifications it does, its not like we changing our icon system with icon tweaker & then patching the msstytle seperately & believe me doing all the things individually & with seperate software will put more & more burden on your RAM So I can say without any doubt that bricopacks isn't gona be your nightmare if you install them correctly
Currently, non of the bricopacks from CrystalXP comes with a boot skin modifier But through personal experience I can recommend you the Flyakite OSX (I've used version 3.5)
But That is not the only method to change your boot screen
While using bricopacks, You can use Boot Skin (freeware) to change your boot skin manually or else Tuneup utillities (a shareware where changing the boot screen is just one of its minor facilities)

thanks for your replies, the reason that im afraid is that several people are experiencing problems in bricopacks. anyway if im using the bricopack should i install it in safemode? thanks

also wil bricopacks will use a lot memory? thanks

You are in a support forum, so the people who get it right won't come here (usually). Only the small amount of people with problems come here. And yes, it's better to install in safe-mode.

The Bricopack itself won't use that much memory, but the additional programs (RocketDock, TransBar, Y'z Shadow, etc.) will. You can disable those additional programs, though

 
thanks legace, i do have 1.5gb ddr1 ram pentium D will it suffice?. il just press f8 before the windows xp screen right? to be in a safe mode?. thanks again

also currently i have vistaCG visual style. should i uninstall it first? or it's alright to install bricopack when i do have vista cg thanks

i installed the inspirat, but it looks like the same but the folders are changed and the icons but no taskbars or any addons (the rocketdock transbar etc.) any ideas?.

The performance you've stated is more than enough to install the bricopack

Nope VistaCG is just a visual style, you don't need to uninstall it

Try to go to the Display Settings>Appearence & Apply the visual style

If this is not possible, Which Windows service pack you have? Is it Vista Inspirat 1.0 you installed or 2.1 ?  

 
hi, vista inspirat 2 works perfectly, one question though, how to remove my documents recyclebin and my computer from the desktop, i wanted all my icons to be in the rocket dock thanks

also, do i have to update the inspirat to 2.1? thanks

 
Go to Display properties>Desktop Tab and press 'Customize Desktop' button, there you can tick the icons that you want to show/hide in your desktop. There, you can select to hide the icons (Unfortunately, you cannot hide the recycle bin in this manner in XP )
There is a small hint in my mind to do this but it has gone so deep since it has been a long time with my past experience with XP
 

There is no updating of Bricopacks like Windows update, The latest bricopack version is Inspirat 2.1 (You need to uninstall any previous version to install another