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Vista Transformation Pack
Version: 6
Downloads Count: 281,590
License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Nov 29, 2006
Operating Systems: Windows XP
File Size: 30200 KB
Author: Window X's Shrine
- WinPatrol 2009 729,592
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- Vista Transformation Pack 281,590
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Most recent User Reviews for Vista Transformation Pack
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Reviewed by: Joe007
04-16-2009
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths: Curntly Nothing is happening
Weaknesses: its just still installing and its taking a very long time to install
Overall Evaluation: Nothing, i didnt see how it would look
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Reviewed by: MATR
11-19-2007
Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks
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Overall Evaluation: Excited and started using vista transformation pack gladly. Apparantley it was very good looking and impressive, even though it was taking bit more time for the system to get started. But within couple of weeks the following problem arised. As the system has windows xp, the user has to enter the password to login. Once the user did this, the system was behaving as if it was going to start, but (within 2 minutes) it was showing the password screen again. I think this is because of this transformation pack. I request you all please let me know the solution, if you can think of one. Thank you all.
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Reviewed by: cpaguy123
05-28-2007
Duration of ownership: 3 Months
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Reviewed by: lumpofblubber
05-24-2007
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: It looks just like the real vista. a 13 year old like me cant fork out a thousand. but this gives me everything i need from vista
Weaknesses: how to change the language? i cant understand spanish
Overall Evaluation: improve xp without paying a single cent. what more do you want?
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Reviewed by: kuroganeki
05-16-2007
Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks
Strengths: easy install, true vista look, doesn't require a high graphics card, very customizable fetures
Weaknesses: BIG file, takes long to instal
Overall Evaluation: i completly love it!!! it is SOOOO awesome!!!!!!! thanks PC world for having this!!!
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Reviewed by: rivers699
03-10-2007
Duration of ownership: 6 Months
Strengths: The look and feel of Vista! The install was a breeze, although the warnings were scary. The Aero Glass transparencies look just like Vista.
Weaknesses: The only weakness is having to wait for it to "build Vista Icons" at start up and having to click OK before the desktop loads each time.
Overall Evaluation: I recommend this program for those that are not ready or are unable to upgrade to Vista. A very good program. Download the installation file from the author's website.
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Reviewed by: mleftin
03-05-2007
Duration of ownership: 1 Months
Strengths: Looks and feels like Vista. Downloaded fairly easy. No trouble installing the program.
Weaknesses: You may have a problem checking the boxes in the initial setup.
Overall Evaluation: Overall the program gives the XP machine the look and feel of Vista. The Aero thumbnails and the dock setup work perfectly. My Campaq Presario had no problems with the Transformation Pack.
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Reviewed by: wcarr16
02-25-2007
Duration of ownership: 4 Days
Strengths: Beautiful UI with several strong feature enhancements. No ridiculeous hardware requirements or broken drivers/software, and especially no DRM issues.
Weaknesses: Installation choices could be better explained. You presented with a multitude of choices to check off. If you're not sure, better to halt installation until you know what options to check off. Side bar is handy but included gadgets seem somewhat less stable that the rest of the UI. RSS reader has problems updating and I generally have to reset preferences on a restart. May be a wrong checkbox from intallation
Overall Evaluation: Love the look and utility. Got off the bleeding edge two years ago. Moderately fast, stable system is more important to me, but I like to tweek. Vista while pretty would have required a $500 hadware upgrade plus the cost of Vista. Too many issues and unknowns at this time. The Transform pack gives me 90% of the functionality and appearance plus 100% of the speed and stability of my XP Pro installation. Highly recommend.
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Reviewed by: sabrosura
02-17-2007
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
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Reviewed by: sid4workeller
02-10-2007
Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks
Strengths: Easy as if it was built for me
Weaknesses: Haven't found them yet. But, give me a month.
Overall Evaluation: If this was any easier, my X wife could handle this.. My present wife, found it to be very easy and wants it downloaded to her machine .
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Reviewed by: Elippl
01-28-2007
Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks
Strengths: It looks like Vista and has some of the things in the OS. The mouse pointers look great. The icons are Vista like as well.
Weaknesses: It can be a change that you won't be able to return to normal XP with out system recovery. Not all of the side bar's icons are working. The windows aren't transparent. The start bar has icons in it. The boot screen look really bad anf fake.
Overall Evaluation: If you wan't a look a like of Vista and aren't planning to upgrade this is perfect for you. If you only want to keep it for a week or just for the looks don't try it. Vista comes out January 30 and I'm waiting for Vista to be mailed to me. This is nice but XP doesn't have as many problems and is less of a problem to use.
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Reviewed by: Kapricorn62
01-15-2007
Duration of ownership: 1 Months
Strengths: Looks & feels like Vista
Weaknesses: occasional error message upon start up (only 1...only sometimes)
Overall Evaluation: I love it! the install for me was a snap, the directions were fairly simple, and it installed on the first try. Makes you feel like your OS is Vista
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Reviewed by: Foshizol
12-28-2006
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: Download and install went fine for me I don't know what everyone is complaining about.
Weaknesses: Programmer needs to spell check. To many warnings that you may mess up your I understand one warning but they make it scarier then it really is. True computer techs don't mind doing a full format and reinstall. I didn't really care for the gadget stuff that came up, but that's because I already use Yahoo Widgets.
Overall Evaluation: I like the look of the tool and the folders, and my Icons seem crisp. I like the way the My Computer folder looks inside. This is why I love to install new linux distros so I can look at something different for awhile.
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Reviewed by: water
12-28-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths: none
Weaknesses: none
Overall Evaluation: Prevx1 calls it malware will not alow me to run it
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Reviewed by: gregmb
12-28-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths: Corrupt file.
Weaknesses: Corrupt file.
Overall Evaluation: Corrupt file.
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Reviewed by: micki99
12-28-2006
Duration of ownership: 5 Weeks
Strengths: beautiful. like the whirly when working rather than the hourglass.
Weaknesses: none so far
Overall Evaluation: Find it attractive. Also find that my pc works faster since I installed it. Had problems with initial installation. Had to uninstall and reinstall, but since then no problems. Like the bar at the bottom which shows how much further to bring up page. Very attractive and easy to use. Did not download from pcworld. Got it from site recommended by Kim Komando. check her download section.
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Reviewed by: Blazer
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths: non
Weaknesses: corupt zip file
Overall Evaluation: instead of downloading from PC World, if you go to www.windowsxlive.net you will get a proper (uncorupted) file
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Reviewed by: shortstuff2604
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: This is not a zip file, canot open it
Weaknesses: can not open this file
Overall Evaluation: poor can not open this file just like everybody else who trys to use it . try to make this file avalable
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Reviewed by: Marcelo
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths: Who nows?
Weaknesses: Lack of care
Overall Evaluation: Yeap! The problem is that the .zip file has only the 10% of the data that should. The description says that the file is 12500KB and the downloaded file is only 1.2K. Does any body take cares to check out these problems?
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Reviewed by: joeyford1
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths:
Weaknesses: corrupted archive
Overall Evaluation: Unable to extract from archive.
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Reviewed by: nirrp
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: ??
Weaknesses: Invaid Archive: vtp5_5.zip
Overall Evaluation: End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive.
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Reviewed by: jryder27
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Months
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Overall Evaluation: Empty Zip
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Reviewed by: CKam38
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Months
Strengths: not valid zip file
Weaknesses: wont work
Overall Evaluation: cant use =no good
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Reviewed by: yuquotqueen
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
Strengths: poor
Weaknesses: poor
Overall Evaluation: Zip File Would Not Open
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Reviewed by: roti
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
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Overall Evaluation: It doesn't open. Says file corrupted. Worthless Was very dissapointed
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Reviewed by: sklein
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Months
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Overall Evaluation: I downloaded the file but it would not open. It is either a corrupted file and/or it is not a valid archived Zip file.
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Reviewed by: yangbon
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths:
Weaknesses: THE ZIP FILE WAS EMPTY. HARD TO EVALUATE A PROGRAM WHEN THE ZIP FILE CONTAINS NOTHING
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Reviewed by: pipolisious
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
Strengths: The zip file does not open!
Weaknesses: The zip file does not open!
Overall Evaluation: The zip file does not open! So how can this be evaluated if it can not be installed?
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Reviewed by: labjr
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Months
Strengths: could not download the transformation pack as the files are corrupted
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Overall Evaluation: wish I could use it but the files are corrupeted and would not download so I am disappointed as I would like to have seen how it works
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Reviewed by: sirknight6
12-27-2006
Duration of ownership: 0 Months
Strengths:
Weaknesses: It doesn't seem to be a valid ZIP file. I cannot open it.
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