Transform Windows XP into Mac Os Leopard without using Customization Pack

As we all know that “Mac Os Leopard” has been released from years but its too costly for every person to purchase “Mac Os Leopard“. There are many interesting thing in “Mac Os Leopard”  i.e. its look, new icons, theme, sounds, logon screen, boot screen, etc. If you are using Windows XP but want to enjoy the “Mac Os Leopard” then this tutorial will sure help you.

Below is a list of things which are going to change after in this tutorial:

1.) Leopard Visual Style / Windows Blinds
2.) Icons
3.) Boot Screen
4.) Cursors
5.) About Leopard Dialog Box
6.) Shutdown Dialog Box
7.) Leopard Firefox Skin
8.) Leopard Styler
9.) Leopard System Properties
10.) Wallpapers
11.) Leopard Logon Screen
12.) Few other Changes…

1. Leopard Visual Style / Windows Blinds

You can get the same look in Windows XP by using following theme:

Download “Mac Os Leopard Theme” for Windows XP (Repacked by Me)

Download Tiger 2 Windows Blinds Theme for Windows XP

Download Leopard Windows Blinds Theme for Windows XP

2. Leopard Icons

You can use following icon pack to install them in XP:

Download Icon Pack for TuneUp utilities & Icon Packager

3. Boot Screen

You can get a similar boot screen in Windows XP:

Boot Screen 1:

Boot Screen 2:

Boot Screen 3:

Download All Above Boot Screen Created by Me in one package

4. Leopard Cursors

You can get a similar Cursors in Windows XP:

Credits: uselessdesires

Download leopard Cursors | Mirror

5. About leopard Dialog Box

To change the About Windows box you’ll need to change 2 things: The top logo and the text part.

Download the BITMAP file from here:
Download About Leopard

Below Tutorial Credits: Vishal Gupta

Open “%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll” file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the downloaded BMP file:

Bitmap -> 131 -> 1033 (For XP Professional)
Bitmap -> 147 -> 1033 (For XP Home)

Now open %windir%\System32\msgina.dll file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the downloaded BMP file:

Bitmap -> 101 -> 1033 (For XP Professional)
Bitmap -> 107 -> 1033 (For XP Professional)
Bitmap -> 128 -> 1033 (For XP Home)
Bitmap -> 129 -> 1033 (For XP Home)

Now to change the text of dialog box, open “%windir%\System32\xpsp1res.dll” file in Resource Hacker and then goto:

Dialog -> 14352 -> 1033

Now replace the existing code in right-side pane with the code in following file:

Download About Dialog Box Code

Click on Compile Script button and save the file.

6. Shutdown Dialog Box:

You can get a similar Shutdown Dialog Box in Windows XP

Download required BMP files from here:
Download Shutdown BMPs

Below Tutorial Credits: Vishal Gupta

Extract the file and you’ll get 4 BMPs with the name:
1.bmp
2.bmp
3.bmp
4.bmp

Now open “%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll” file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the mentioned BMP files:

Bitmap -> 14351 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 14353 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 14354 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 14355 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 14356 -> 1033 with 3.bmp

now save the file and open %windir%\System32\msgina.dll file in Resource Hacker and then replace following BITMAPs with the mentioned BMP files:

Bitmap -> 20140 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 20141 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 20142 -> 1033 with 1.bmp
Bitmap -> 20143 -> 1033 with 2.bmp
Bitmap -> 20150 -> 1033 with 4.bmp

Now save the file.

7. Leopard Firefox Theme

You can get a similar Firefox Theme in Windows XP:

NOTE: Only for Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

Download the Firefox theme file from here

8. Leopard Styler

You can get a similar Leopard Styler in Windows XP:

Download Styler Software from here
Download Leapord theme for Styler from here

9. Leopard System Properties

You can get a similar Leopard System properties in Windows XP:

How to use?
Replace original sysdm.cpl in c:\Windows\System32\sysdm.cpl with the sysdm.cpl Provided in the Folder.  Be sure to make a backup of the original file. Use Replacer software.

Download the Leopard System Properties file from here

10. Leopard Wallpapers

You can get a similar Leopard Wallpapers in Windows XP:

Click here to Download the Above Wallpapers

11. Logon Screen

You can get a similar “Leopard Logon Screen” in Windows XP:

Download Leopard logon Screen for Windows XP

12. Few other Changes…

(1). OS X Leopard for Rocketdock=>

Download RocketDock Software from Here
Download RocketDock theme (leopard) for XP |  Mirror

(2). Finderbar for XP=>

Add Mac OS X Style drop-down menus to your Windows Taskbar

Download Finderbar Drop-Down menus software from here

(3). leopard Sounds=>

Download leopard Sounds from here

That’s all for now. After following all the above steps, you will get Mac Os Leopard Look & Feel in Windows XP.

NOTE: About Leopard Dialog Box, Shutdown Dialog Box, Leopard System Properties & All 3 Boot Screen were personally created by me!!