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However, the taskbar and start menu do seem a bit out of place on a Mac because of their rather outdated visual design. In conclusion, iTaskbar is a nifty application that adds a feature many users feel is missing from their Macs: an OS X version of the Windows taskbar and start menu. Add Mac OS X Spotlight Universal Search Function To Windows. I admit, Mac OS X’s Spotlight feature is the one that I can’t live without. It’s so useful, really wish Microsoft can improve upon the search experience in Windows’s Start Menu. Yes they did make search better in Windows 8.1 to include Bing’s universal search. ITaskbar is a straightforward macOS application that can add a Windows-like taskbar, start menu and quick launch toolbar on your Mac, is very easy to use and offers lots of options for. Mac os X Fos for Windows 8.1 theme is made for using ONLY to a WINDOWS 8.1 system. This is one of my best Themes ever. Back to the future to Windows 8.1no more windows 10, with a theme with default rounded corners of explorer's window, in os X style, made from ZEUSosX for Windows 8.1. Windows 8 taskbar free download - Taskbar Eliminator, Taskbar Shuffle, Taskbar Hide, and many more programs.
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Here's another visual transformation guide. We saw quite a few of those on Dedoimedo, including how to make Windows XP look like Windows 7, then how to make the latter look like Windows 8, and we also dabbled in Android, changing its appearance to be like Windows Phone and Ubuntu Phone. Yup.
Now, we will make Windows, specifically the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview, look somewhat like Mac OS X Yosemite, so that you can feel posh and special and stylish. Not that the stocks looks are bad, mind, but we wanna have some fun, and this tutorial will show you how to do that. After me.
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Where to start
If you look around the web, you will find dozens of guides offering partial solutions to your emotional thirst. Some are quite complicated, and others only work up to Windows 8. Well, here, we will accomplish everything with just two downloads and some optional tweaking with wallpapers and icons. But that's it, basically. So we end up having this:
You will have to download the Mac OS X Yosemite Skin Pack from skinpacks.com, and also Skin Pack Auto UXThemePatcher. Make sure you choose the correct version, Style or Theme, because the latter does not support Windows 10 Technical Preview.
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And that's it. Begin by installing the patcher first. No need to reboot. Then, install the skin pack, choose the optional components available with the installer, and then start tweaking to your liking.
After a few moments, you will get:
Additional tweaks & customization
We've just started. Now, you will need to invest some of your time and imagination in making everything presentable. All right, MetroSidebar looks like an interesting concept, but it is really unnecessary, so we will chuck it away. You might as well install a Mac-like wallpaper for extra authenticity.
At the bottom of the screen, you have RocketDock, a very cool dock for Windows. You can drag & drop icons onto it, as well as rearrange them. Right-click to delete items or add special widgets and separators. You can also change the size of icons from the default 50px to anything you like.
The taskbar will be relocated to the top of the screen and made small, white and fancy, with the theme lookalike borrowed from Mac and some versions of Linux. You might want to consider setting the taskbar to auto-hide. Furthermore, you might also want to hide the Recycle Bin from the desktop for a clean, tidy effect.
The other side of the transformation: window decorations. The whole point of having a Mac theme is to have a bunch of traffic light colored buttons and that rounded, posh feel. Indeed, if you have applied the theme patcher, you'll get that.
However, windows titles maybe be surrounded in a rectangle of a different color from the window border color, so you will have to right-click on the desktop > Personalize, and change the color balance until you get the desired transparency effect. And you will be enjoying yourself, for sure:
Extras
There are several optional things you may want to consider. For me, it was the choice of monochrome icons (black & white), to make the dock look even more presentable and classy. This has nothing specifically to do with Mac OS X, but it may give you new ideas and inspiration for how to alter and polish your Windows theme even further. Please take a look, or just ignore completely. Your choice.
I chose the ecqllipse 2 icon set from deviantArt, and then individually replaced the icons in the RocketDock. Goes well with the Mac theme, and the reduced number of different colors makes it all feel expensive.
Gallery
Some more pictures, just to waste everyone's bandwidth:
Conclusion
This is a very neat tutorial. Personally, I like the Windows 8/10 flat theme, but this transformation is also quite cool, and it might infuse your system with new, unexpected freshness. The process is fairly simple, with safe restore points, no need for any reboots, and everything is fully reversible. Should you not want any extras, just make sure the Skin Pack added programs do not startup with Windows, place the taskbar at the bottom, reset the theme, and you're done. You're back to defaults.
Anyhow, I hope you will find this entertaining and pleasing, even though it may not be the most useful guide in the world. But if you have other ideas and suggestions, I am more than willing to listen, as well as sacrifice my machines for testing. There you go. Enjoy.
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The Mac OS X dock is something that Windows doesn’t have. It’s similar to the Windows taskbar, but the dock is more of a 3D alternative. However, there are a few software packages that add Mac OS X clones to Windows. This article shows you how to use a freeware program to add a Mac OS X-like dock to Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 for free.
XWindows Dock is a quintessential dock which replicates the Mac OS X dock functionality. It includes a 3D mode that matches the original Mac OS X dock. You can add the software to Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. Check out the software’s website, and select XWindows Dock installer to add it to Windows.
When you have opened XWindows Dock, the dock should be at the bottom of the desktop as in the shot below. To add more shortcuts to it, drag and drop desktop icons onto the dock. Start menu shortcuts can also be dragged onto the dock.
You can also add separators between the dock’s shortcuts. Right-click the dock, and then select Add > Separator. Position the shortcuts between the icons by dragging and dropping them along the dock. To remove separators and icons right-click over them, and select Options > Keep in Dock.
For further options right-click the dock, and select Preferences to open the window in the shot below. If it’s not already selected, select the 3D Dock Mode option. However, the 3D dock cannot be repositioned in the same way as the 2D alternative.
Select the Show all running apps in Dock option. Then running apps will also be displayed on the dock alongside other shortcuts. To open a preview window, move the cursor over one of the dock’s running app icons, press Alt and click over the app icon simultaneously.
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To further customize the dock, add some Mac OS X PNG icons to it. The XWindows Dock icons are customizable, and you can replace them with some of the more electrifying Mac PNG icons from the Iconfinder website. Input the keyword Mac OS X into the site’s search box to find some Mac OS X icons for the dock. Select an icon’s download option, and save to a folder. Right-click one of the dock’s icons and select Properties. Then drag the new icon onto the window in the shot below to add it to the dock.
XWindows Dock is just one of the software packages that adds a dock to Windows. Others, such as Object Dock, also have similar options. With them you can add the classy Mac OS X dock to Windows.