Get your old Win32 apps looking like their Windows XP counterparts! XP Style Hacker is a small unique tool that instantly transforms applications that do not recognise Windows XP visual styles to be "style aware". Your applications will instantly gain the look and feel of the Windows XP environment, no coding needed!

Add stunning looks to your application menus. Customize menu colors, highlight styles (includes Office 2003 and Office XP style), menu border style. Use unicode for menu captions, add menu item bitmaps, menu background bitmaps, show menu tooltips, control tooltip timings.

Enhances application menus, gets you professional looking menus without addition of a single line of code.

Supports VB6, VB.Net, C#.Net, VC++ and Delphi.

Powerful HTML / CSS Editor with full support to W3C CSS standards. Features include powerful CSS validator / IntelliSense, smart preview, detect site-wide css problems, detects invalid properties, effortlessly upgrade to standard-compliant XHTML / CSS, syntax coloring, Site / colors management, CSS code indent, system-wide find/replace, templates / code snippets support, 300+ options, Integration with 30+ HTML Editors, OfficeXP UI and much more!

SMLabel is full feature label control which enable you to add picture and 2 captions in the same label.
This control add some great features like caption fade, caption effect as shadow, embosse, engrave,...
Source code are available.

SMButton let you have total control over the button. You can set and customize each Windows Style (including true XP, MAC, Office 2003, office 2002, 3D, Flat,...) with a lot of features including: caption fading, shadow control, drop control, picture control,... Many features are include in this powerful and robust components.Source code are available.

ProgressBarXP™ is the XP style progress bar control for Visual Basic. You can now have the XP Luna style even if you aren't running on Windows XP.

Several drawing styles are available. There is an XP Luna style that works on all Windows platforms (not just XP), as well as more traditional thick and thin borders. ProgressBarXP is also the only control available that properly draws progress bars in any XP Visual Style, even third-party styles.

Office XP and .NET Style ActiveX Menu Control is the easy to use ActiveX control for VB that gives your application Office XP style menus, as well as the new Office 2003 style menus in just minutes. It is a drop-in menu enhancer for Visual Basic, you do not have to change the way you have used visual basic menus till now. Simply drop this control on the main form of your application and run the application.

FastReport Studio is an powerful, compact, and flexible environment for giving your application the ability to generate reports quickly and efficiently. All the tools you need to fast and professional develop reports, including a report engine, report designer, previewer, dialog window designer, and four macro interpreters - Basic (VB) style, C++ style, JS style and Pascal style.

Design your own Windows GUI with SkinStudio. SkinStudio lets you create your own Start bar, Start button, title bar buttons, push buttons, scrollbars, toolbar icons, progress bars, and much more. Your new interface can then be applied by popular programs such as WindowBlinds to change the look and feel of the entire Windows GUI.

As Windows XP is here and not all the older programs can take advantage of the xp themes option (xp visual styles or xp skins), we thought that a program who can resolve with one click this problem will be very useful for you: XP Skins by CronoSoft!
XP Skins it's a Windows XP utility that help you to change the look of older windows programs with one click of the mouse: now all your programs will support xp skins (Windows XP themes).

TuneUp WinStyler lets you change the way Windows looks on your computer. You can change the look of the complete desktop easily. The start menu, taskbar, even the panels and windows of all modern applications get a new look with the click of a button. offers You can change the look of nearly any icon. With numerous themed icon packages you can even change all icons at once. Change the Windows logon screen, and much more!

A Frame control provides an identifiable grouping for controls, which supports XP visual styles and flicker free drawing.

Supports:
- XP visual styles
- Flicker free drawing
- Contained controls state handling
- plus more ...

This is a lightweight ActiveX control that will help you group controls in your applications, providing XP visual styles without flickering.

Windows desktop can be boring with its standard icons, blue welcome screen and lackluster choice of display themes. Give your PC a digital makeover with your personal touch. Visual Styler is an easy and fun way to revamp your PC desktop appearance. Glossy, metallic, shiny or funky plastic looks are all possible, plus a great variety of icon packs, wallpapers, logon screens and display themes. Easy to install and use.

Change your start-up screen! Stardock's LogonStudio is a free program that allows Windows XP users to edit, change, and apply new logon screens. It comes with several logon screens to choose from along with thousands available on-line from websites such as WinCustomize.com. LogonStudio comes built with a visual editor to make it easy to create your own logons which can then be uploaded to websites to be used by others.

Customize the look and feel of Windows XP with WindowBlinds. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to completely change the look and feel of the entire Windows user interface -- title bars, push buttons, scrollbars, the Start bar, and more. Version 5.5 adds support for Windows Vista, includes faster performance, and updated skins.

IconPackager is a desktop-enhancement utility that lets you change all the icons used by Windows at once. You can download these packages at Web sites such as WinCustomize.com or create your own by replacing the icons of individual items on your computer one by one, then saving them as an icon package. It's very easy to use and has thousands of icons available in packages on the Net.

WindowBlinds allows users to totally change the look and feel of Windows to meet their needs. It's more than just eye candy though, user created "skins" can add extra functionality to Windows along with restrict what users can do with their windows if necessary.

WindowBlinds 4.5 includes the new ability to change the color of visual styles through hue shifting along with modifying the brightness and saturation of the visual style.