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Windows XP themes on Wine


Be default the look of Wine is ugly – it always reminds me of the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 days.

Wine Theme Configuration

But actually Wine supports theming – just like Windows XP – so you are able to apply the traditional Windows XP themes to Wine, like for instance the The Luna Theme, The Energy Blue Theme, The Royale Themes and The Zune Theme.

You can apply a theme to Wine by doing the following steps

  1. Open a terminal and then run winecfg
  2. Select the ‘Desktop Integration’ tab
  3. Click on ‘Install Theme’
  4. Download a theme – perhaps the The Royale Theme from here
  5. Extract the file into a given folder
  6. After that browse to the folder that contains the theme’s .msstyle file and select it and press open

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Howto: Office 2007 on Linux with Wine

Microsoft Office 2007 is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft’s productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007.

New Features in Office 2007
Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface (initially referred to as the Ribbon UI), replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, or Windows Vista.

The ‘Ribbon User Interface’ is a task-orientated Graphical User Interface (GUI). It features a central menu button, widely known as the ‘Office Button’. The Ribbon Interface has been rumored to be introduced into Microsoft Office 14.

The new user interface (UI), officially known as Microsoft Office Fluent, has been implemented in the core Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and in the item inspector used to create or edit individual items in Outlook. These applications have been selected for the UI overhaul because they center around document authoring. The rest of the applications in the suite will also be upgraded to the new UI in subsequent versions. The default font used in this edition is Calibri. Original prototypes of the new user interface were revealed at MIX 2008 in Las Vegas.

Getting Wine Ready for Office 2007

Wine Configuration
The following guide is based on a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024×768 virtual desktop.


Wine version used:
wine-1.1.9
Windows version emulated:
Windows XP
Office version:
Microsoft Office 2007

Download and install the latest Wine available by following this guide.


$ winecfg

When the configuration dialog appears set the virtual desktop in the graphics tab and click OK.

Then download winetricks using wget:

$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks


sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 allfonts

Installing Microsoft Office 2007
Office 2007 requires a libraries, which are not included in a plain Wine-installation. These libraries could be obtained from CrossOver Games, which is a derived version of Wine made to support games under Linux.

Download and install CrossOver Games either by hand or by using the official Ubuntu or Debian package.

After the install then

Copy rpcrt4.dll.so into Wine:

$ sudo cp /opt/cxgames/lib/wine/rpcrt4.dll.so .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

Rename the native Wine-dll version:

$ sudo mv .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll.bak

Rename CrossOver Games version into the original name:

$ sudo mv .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll.so .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll

Moreover you will need to rename msxml3.dll into *.bak too:

$ sudo mv .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msxml3.dll .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msxml3.dll.bak

After the renaming it is time to run winecfg again and set msxml3.dll and rpcrt4.dll to “native windows” select save and exit.

Now it is time to mount the Office 2007 cd media and start the actual Office 2007 installation.

$ sudo mount -o loop -o unhide Office-2007.iso /mnt

Now cd into the mounted directory

$ cd /mnt
$ wine setup.exe

Type the serial number and click install.

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Windows 7 Themes for Windows XP

Windows 7 is the upcoming version of Windows and the successor to Windows Vista. Windows 7 is expected to be released in 2010 and includes reworked user interface, however, Windows XP users can download the Windows 7 desktop theme and enjoy the look and feel of Windows 7 before it’s release.

To some extent the Windows 7 desktop theme looks similar the themes found in Windows Vista. However, there are some enhancement, as you can see from the screenshots below:

Windows 7 theme for Windows XP

Windows 7 theme for Windows XP

How to install the Windows 7 theme in Windows XP

  1. Download Windows 7 Theme from here
  2. Install “UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe” from “UX Theme Patcher” folder.
  3. Double click on the “Windows 7 M1 VS.msstyles” in “Theme\Windows 7 M1 VS” folder to install the theme.
  4. Enjoy the look and feel of Windows 7 in your plain old Windows XP

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Review: HTC Touch Cruise and HTC Polaris 100

HTC Touch Cruise

Back in September I got a HTC Touch Cruise.

User Experience
The phone is very slow to boot and become ready to use. It has boot times, which could be compared to normal Windows-based computers, which means around 20-50 seconds.

The user interface and the user interaction feels sluggish, very sluggish in fact. I upgraded to the newest firmware version available, but it didn’t reduce the slowness.

Compared to the Apple iPhone user interface and user interaction the iPhone is ages ahead.

The single positive thing about the HTC Touch Cruise is the availability of the TomTom navigation software, which transforms the HTC Touch Cruise into a really full-blown car navigation system.

Last week I turned down on my HTC Touch Cruise and started using my old Nokia E50 again as it is a lot more faster to use.

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TomTom

TomTom is a well-known Dutch manufacturer of automotive navigation systems, including both stand-alone units and software for personal digital assistants, and mobile telephones. It is the leading manufacturer of navigation systems in Europe.

iPhone 3G is going to offer some solid GPS functionality right out of the box.

TomTom recently announced that “TomTom is just about ready with an iPhone version of its software that it plans to sell through the iTunes App Store.”

TomTom could bring real GPS navigation software to the Apple iPhone.

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