LOL! ... << thinks "back in the day" >> i used to do that! Its not so hard now, but back then, it was all about working out how to hack the resources ... but many peeps over @ Neowin offer that sort of Customization ... so XP really can become something else ... the question i asked myself, after many months of customizing is .... "is it more productive"?! ... it was far from it, SLOW ... Irr-esponsive ... its not all that, a Desktop Screenshot can be comparable, but we all know Aqua is more than that (until i had a Mac, i never agreed) but i'd never go back to hacking away Shell's and Heaps of DLL's!