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[runawayhorses]

I've downloaded a small utility that will change the skins of Internet Explorer with one click. Only problem is now, I need some skins!
It came with one BMP format skin, but I want to get several others to choose from. Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.

Tyler

[Anthony A]

runawayhorses, on Jul 26 2007, 03:30 PM, said:

I've downloaded a small utility that will change the skins of Internet Explorer with one click. Only problem is now, I need some skins!
It came with one BMP format skin, but I want to get several others to choose from. Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.

Tyler

What utility are you talking about?

[runawayhorses]

Anthony A, on Jul 26 2007, 03:43 PM, said:

What utility are you talking about?

Hi, this one here.
Internet Explorer Skin Manager

[Anthony A]

I wasn't aware IE was Skinable. I know Tweak UI has an option in it to change IE's tool bar back ground but that doesn't work on IE7. Other than that I don't ever remember seeing a skin for IE.

I changed my theme to Windows Classic and selected slate as my color and it changed the whole color of IE's UI and changed the tab bar quite a bit. Thats as close to skinning IE as I have come. Here is a shot of it.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs217&d=07295&am...7-20_162529.jpg

[runawayhorses]

Anthony A, on Jul 26 2007, 06:06 PM, said:

I wasn't aware IE was Skinable. I know Tweak UI has an option in it to change IE's tool bar back ground but that doesn't work on IE7. Other than that I don't ever remember seeing a skin for IE.

I changed my theme to Windows Classic and selected slate as my color and it changed the whole color of IE's UI and changed the tab bar quite bit. Thats as close to skinning IE as I have come. Here is a shot of it.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs217&d=07295&am...7-20_162529.jpg

Hey, that looks really nice!

I've known for awhile that IE was skinable, but this is the first tool I've seen that will do it with such ease. It's too bad the Tweak UI tool doesn't work for IE7. I would've looked at that one first, as I have another Tweak tool that works really nice. This one looks easy enough and should do nicely though, I hope. I want to get some skins before I dive into it. I've seen several IE-skin sites already, but they're just so full of ads and junk, I just don't want to bother with them. I'm hoping to find a good selection and user friendly site. Some places just want to give ya their spyware if you know what I mean.

[JDPower]

Anthony A, on Jul 26 2007, 11:06 PM, said:

I know Tweak UI has an option in it to change IE's tool bar back ground but that doesn't work on IE7.

I think that skin manager thing works in the same way, and as such I'd guess it doesn't work in IE7 either (plus the fact its not been updated in 5 years)

EDIT: Seems IE7 isn't really skinnable as I suspected: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...515564&st=0

[Andavari]

Skinning IE like that also at the same time will apply the skin to Windows Explorer. I used to use that functionality in Win98, but haven't bothered in WinXP.

[runawayhorses]

JDPower, on Jul 26 2007, 06:43 PM, said:

I think that skin manager thing works in the same way, and as such I'd guess it doesn't work in IE7 either (plus the fact its not been updated in 5 years)

EDIT: Seems IE7 isn't really skinnable as I suspected: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...515564&st=0

Yeah I just read it too. That's too bad..oh well. Thanks for checking into it for me.