Make Windows Look Like OS X

Amen to that!

I don’t get the really, you either use windows or mac, not one and make it look like the other. I use windows, I would never think of switching or making it look like mac or linux.

Flyakite OS X is a nice application, but it changes your system files!! So beware when installing and create a system restore. Also the project is dead so don’t expect and updates to the program.

FlyakiteOSX will do the trick. Visual style, icons, window shadow, dock, etc. Everything’s in there. Kind cool for a week or so.. :)

Why not? Because a personal computer system is much more than the OS. The applications are what makes a system more or less usable. Most of us spend far more time in applications than fiddling with the OS interface itself.

In all the areas that matter to me, Windows applications are superior to their Mac OS X counterparts. In some cases (e.g., WebSite-Watcher), there is no counterpart. In others (e.g., email programs and RSS readers), there is no Mac program with anything like the functionality I demand.

Pity I can’t edit my own comments…

Forgot to mention that even though Leopard isn’t out yet there’s a ton of Leopard Visual Styles on the Web :)

For example: Leopard Visual Style, Leopard Styler Toolbar, Leopard RocketDock #1, Leopard RocketDock #2, Leopard Dock Stacks or Leopard Pack for Windows XP

But it only cosmetics..

I guess he want’s the beautiful interface but doesn’t want to give up all the hassles… meh?

Couldn’t windows blinds be used to make it look like OS X, i looked into buying a mac, but for the same reasons I didn’t switch, software, and already having a pc.

I’d have to say it’s a perfectly reasonable request…

It sort of reminds me of all the Mac users who cried about having to buy certain versions of Vista if they wanted to virtualize it and then insisted that they NEEDED a version of Windows virtualized on their Macs because OS X doesn’t do everything they need.

I love that Mac users can go on and on about how they have to have OS X and Windows to do everything they want, but if a Windows user wants the “nice” appearance of OS X, they are questioned as to why they won’t go to OS X and run just it… I bet every OS X user who posted here is running Windows because not all their applications are available on OS X.

I like to make all of my environments—KDE (under BSD & Linux), Win2k, MacOS 10.2, MacOS 9.2—at least ACT as similar as is practical.

Far worse than any of the downsides of any given OS, is tripping over things that works a little bit differently between them. I can’t tell you how many times i’ve accidentally double-clicked a close box on the Mac. (Yes, i still double-click window-control menus to close under Windows, even though i haven’t used Win3.1 in about 8 years. At least it’s been several years since i’ve clicked the close button (which 3.1 didn’t have) instead of the maximise button.)

in my experience, running these kinds of mad themes and skins on Windows will go a long way to slowing down you machine…

I just run standard looking WinXP in the office, and standard OSX on MacBook at home… anything else is just wasting resources IMHO.

I have felt the same before. Ubuntu helped though.

However, in Windows you can get Flyakite for windows:
http://www.flyakiteosx.com/download/
Its a very good looking clone of mac.

It’s not easy to just move. You need the hardware and it’s costly

I just installed FlyakiteOSX. this is my first meeting with an OS,of I like the sounds,cursors,wallpaper,I think I will continue to use it if it doesn’t harm any system files.I didn’t downloaded its system files and other options like itunes.I ve created a system restore folder,yes.

one thing is to worry about resources and another wanting to have a comfortable environment. As for me, I have, lets say, a customization obsession :) I like to customize everything I possibly can: visual style of windows, icons, cursors, wallpapers, skins for Firefox, the way some sites are displayed by overwriting their CSS with my own, etc. :)

A reason for changing the way Windows looks like, again speaking for myself, is that it gets boring after a while or just tiring and straining for eyes, therefor the “comfortable” feeling disappears.

I a someone wants to run a billion and five applications just to get their PC to look like OS X, fine. But, as jackbremer said, they are wasting their resources to an extreme. Putting all that **** on is like putting lipstick on a pig, it’s not fooling anyone. Just buy a Mac, seriously. If you are afraid of not being able to use Windows apps, there is always Bootcamp or VMWare.

I just wanted to say that I was a loyal PC user/builder/programmer for more then 15 years but couldn’t wait for Apple to release an Intel based Mac. Once they did I imediatly bought one and have never looked back at my PCs again. Yes I run windows and depend on it on occasion but I simply do not trust any Microsoft OS as my main OS, and never will. I lost so much data and time because of Microsoft. I have had to repeatedly reinstall their OSes over and over because of driver issues, viruses, mysterious BSODs etc and I must say I am glad to leave that all behind. I am not saying that OS X is in any way superior over Windows and yes it has much less available apps but I am getting way too old to be reinstalling my OS every couple months. I do all my main programming in OS X now and anything i need to do in windows i do using Parallels and for games i just boot into XP using Boot Camp natively. One other reason i switched is because i simply wanted to be able to have 16G of ram, 8 CPU Cores and 4 PCI Express Video Cards. No PC can do that.

Windows makes computers?

Come on people — just answer the question.

Hey PC Perini! I feel your pain. I have MAC envy after seeing my daughter’s iMAC running great at six years old while I’ve been through three PC’s in the same time.

To ease your pain, try astonshell.com. They have dozens of active interfaces among which are a few MAC variants that will help you see your PC as a MAC.

Good luck, they all take a little tweaking but do a great job!

lol download mac os x on a torrent site and boot with f8 and install on a regular intel or amd processor.

I’m not a zealot over OS - I use what works best for what I’m doing. The computer is a tool, it isn’t my life. I make my living with a computer and I use Windows XP since I need to run Visual Studio natively, not inside Apple’s emulation software.

I have three Macs (two iMacs and a PowerBook) and several other systems running Ubuntu Linux. Windows Mobile, Windows CE, 2k are also running different systems for work or home. It depends on the task and the machine as to what runs best and works the best for the task.

Cool Peter. The first real reason to buy a mac. 16G of ram, 8 CPU Cores and 4 PCI Express Video Cards. That might get me to switch. All the other arguments I hear are basically user preferences. I have run with dual processors since the Pentium Pro came out, everything just works better, no waiting. When you run Windows with Boot Camp does it use all the power.

Not exactly Mac but close - these utilities may be interesting to you > http://ajayksh.wordpress.com/tech-attack/the-desktop-showdown/

Stardock has the best windows enhancements and appearance tweaks. I have used their product Window Blinds and Object Dock for years, and I am happy to say that I can almost completely reproduce the OS X look and feel on a PC. Check it out: http://www.stardock.com.

Ken

Oesmowess, Yes it totally runs natively with Boot Camp. Boot Camp is basically just an OS selector not an emulator but only works with Intel based Macs. I even had success putting Windows only on a Mac without Boot Camp.

The only thing you really need from Boot Camp is the drivers for the chipset etc.

Another cool thing to note about the new Mac Pros is it ability to set the rate of the PCI Express slots through software. All the PCI Express slots are full length slots and if you want it to be a 1x,2x,4x,8x or 16x you set it through software. I would love to see a PC with that capability. I love being able to put cards where I went them and not where my motherboard makes me put them. Also the builtin 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports, Firewire 400/800 and the Buetooth and 802.11n are a nice treat too. I do find that USB 2.0 Hard Drives don’t run as fast on a Mac though. I ended up buying new Firewire 800 cases to put my drives in and now they are really fast.

Just to note, I tried out that FlyakiteOSX and its sweet, I run it on my Windows XP in Boot Camp now and sometime when I see the logon screen I don’t know what OS I am booted into and reboot to make sure lol.

http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=1&search=mac

Don’t even THINK about running Flyakite on Vista LOL.

I use Directory Opus 9 (the best Windows mod available but pricey) and WindowBlinds 6 (Tiger theme + WindowFX, Flyakite and ObjectDock) on XP. Any resemblance to a Microstuffed product is entirely unintentional, but (really) any speed loss or lag is negligible. Anyway, I paid for these resources, I’ll use them, and fast enough is fast enough; it’s not a d**k measuring contest.

The MacMini isn’t specced high enough to replace my PC - I don’t need a new screen or HDD - and maybe one day I’ll replace my blessed TC1100 with a Powerbook, but if I did, I’d be installing BootCamp and spending just as much time tweaking an XP installation which would still hog resources anyway. It comes to a choice between either making Bill or Steve rich - or maybe not falling for the ‘mine’s better than yours’ argument.

You can use tons of **** to make it look like a Mac, but it’s fine that you want it to look like one, but to me Mac is the equivalent of ****. I know this, because I tried some of the Macs at the Apple Store and they sucked.

exactly my opinion.

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Computers suck! They’re only good to work and make money on, other than that and saving tons of pictures and hacked music they suck.

although vista is considered to be not as stable as xp.. it think it looks very nice and doesnt need to have the UI changed..

xp’s interface is okay for the first few months but gets old really quick…

if you have had xp for too long (and like the mac look) then this is pretty usefull..

Chris, It’s not that easy. People like me who live in Mexico can BARELY afford to have a PC Macs are out of our minds because they are WAY too expensive.
So, please don’t be like that and actually help us, I think that was a decent question and answering with something like that is rude.

We don’t all have the sponsors and money to make the change. Good for you that can, I know at least I can’t.

Ruben32 - agreed with you. I admit I love OSX interface, it’s much nicer and elegant than Windows. but MAC is the way too expensive in my country..

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Well, its like this folks, after 15 years of running Macs daily in the graphics industry, I like to call it POS-X. There is no way in HELL I would switch to Mac for my home machine. Windows serves me FAR better, and I can make it look any way I want to, but certainly not POS-X.