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- HELLO..................
- And thanks for taking the time to look at my No Beef Theme Pack.
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- This theme is intended for use with Microsoft Plus! or a similar theme installer
- program. If you do not have a theme installer you can download some great
- ones at http://www.freethemes.com. They have a wealth of great desktop themes,
- and related materials as well.
-
- Well.......if you don't have Plus!, you can install all of these by hand
- by going into the control panel and assigning each cursor, sound....etc.
-
- If you do have Plus!, then you should already know what to do.......but if
- you don't.......read on:
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- INSTALLATION
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- To install the theme, proceed along the following steps:
- Double click on the "NoBeef.zip" to open it, and unzip the contents to:
- C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes\NoBeef. Then go to your control panel.
- Then go into the desktop themes. Click on the pulldown menu and go to the
- bottom of the list. You will see "Other". Click on other, and you will then
- see a regular file listing. Click on the "NoBeef" directory. Open it, and
- then you will see the "NoBeef.theme". Double click on it to see a
- preview of my theme pack.
-
- To install the screensaver, proceed as follows:
- Copy, the Cows.scr to your C:\Windows directory.
-
- To install the startup, wait and shutdown logos, proceed as follows:
- *.sys file type is usually hidden in most people's computers.
- Hence, you may have trouble in finding *.sys files for copying
- the files. To see these hidden files, you can use either
- suggestion below:
- Suggestion 1: Go to Explorer, choose View menu, then select Options...
- In the dialog, enable "Show all files".
-
- Suggestion 2: Use a DOS window, in which most *.sys files
- can be viewed normally.
-
- Step A: Extract the new .SYS file to a temporary directory.
- Step B: Move (backup) original "start-up" logo, "LOGO.SYS" from the
- root directory of your boot drive, usually C:\ to another
- temporary directory.
- Step C: Use DOS window or Explorer to copy new logo file to the
- root directory, usually C:\, and rename the new copy to
- "LOGO.SYS".
- Step D: Restart your computer, and you're done!
-
- NOTE: If you cannot find logo.sys in your drives, including the host
- drive, chances are Win95/98 is using the logo that is
- embedded in io.sys as your start up logo. In this case, you
- don't have logo.sys to backup. Simply place the new logo.sys
- in the root directory of your boot (host) drive.
- Logo.sys in the root directory will take precedence of the one
- embedded in io.sys file. To get back to the original win95
- logo, simply rename the logo.sys to other name.
-
- * To restore the original win95\98 logo, you must save (backup) the
- file in Step A. Then just copy the original logo to the designated directory.
-
- SUMMARY
- ~~~~~~~
- I made the zip like this because:
-
- 1. I somtimes download theme packs that are not any good, and if we
- all put the directories for our themes into separate directories, then
- it would be much simpler for someone to get rid of them.
- 2. If at some later date I need some space, it will be easy to get rid of
- (or transfer to floppies) some theme packs that take up a lot of space.
-
- CREDITS
- ~~~~~~~
- The "No Beef" Theme was created by Debra K. Shaw. The cows pictured on the
- wallpaper are from http://www.lmb.uni-muenchen.de/groups/schaetzl/contents.htm.
- The icons were created by me, and the sounds have be revised from various other
- sources, and adapted to this theme. The cursors were also taken from other themes
- and adapted by me.
-
- The NoBeef animated startup, wait and shutdown logos are my first attempt at
- creating logo files. These will hopefully be revised, to perfection, at a future point
- in time......meaning......I HAVE A LOT TO LEARN!!! Perhaps you will enjoy them
- anyway.
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- This software contains material reproduced without the explicit permission of the
- authors or publishers. In result, this software is not sold or exchanged for any form
- of monetary or otherwise profitable gains.
-
- PUBLISHER
- ~~~~~~~
- Debra K. Shaw
- shawrescue@hotmail.com
- http://www.uslink.net/~rescueme/index.html
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