Looking for THIS skin.. kinda

from Stardock Forums

There used to be a skin called Aero Diamond for windows Vista. The edges of the taskbar were cut off and curved (as shown in the link below) however it had the original start button (the windows logo in the orb) and the windows were "Very transparent" (none of that frost).

http://www.draginol.com/images/zoomba/test_B7CA/diamong.jpg

 

Now there used to be a screenshot of this theme with a beach background and the side bar was almost the same style as the taskbar (had cut/curved edges).  Can anyone tell me if this still exists out there?  Nowhere on google as far as I can see. What I'd like is to have the theme for Windows 7 (i don't care much for the corner desktop preview thingy anyway).  but if it exists, please let me know :)

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That skin comes as one of those provided with Windowblinds. The degree of transparency can be varied in the config window of Windowblinds.

The curved taskbar belongs to the Vista and XP versions of the skin.

I don't know where you'd find that specific screen shot, though. You might try here:  https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/screenshots/search/Diamond

or it might be this one? https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/screenshots/20772/

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That is the Diamond theme that comes with Windowblinds.

 

Edit: Awwww, ya beat me Doc!

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 2
Awwww, ya beat me Doc!
End of LightStar's quote

Someone needed to beat you... :P    ;P

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You won't be able to use the sidebar skin on Win7 as that feature doesn't exist, only the gadget runtime. If you would like an actual sidebar to park your gadgets on, I recommend the 7Sidebar Gadget. It comes with many skins and some great features. Try it out.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Not the time nor place.

 

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks mates for the input.  I did find what you were talking about and it appears to be my only solution at the moment. Thanks very much! I DID find "images" of the theme I was searching for!! :)  It's called Aero Reloaded!  Now mind you, when I first encoutnred this, it was said to be a "mock up" only.

Eventually someone did make it, complete with the wifi gadget. I used it and lost it during the big move to Win7.  I really regret it.  So here I bring to you folks these images in hopes to ring a bell, maybe someone knows where it might be nestled.. in the ancient archives of google maybe?

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1667/267246320bfd7a933f5b.jpg

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2222/upclosefeatures.png

I dig the blue button :)