Power to four-hundred percent capacity.
The cool, andof coursefree,Iron Man J.A.R.V.I.SWindows 7
themethat every Iron Man fanatic has been dreaming of.
S.H.I.E.L.D?:As you can see from the screenshot above, this
theme is based on theSHIELDoperating system that'sseenin the
Avengers movie. It'salso designed to giveit theJ.A.R.V.I.Shud feel
making it a personalizeddesign forall Iron Man/Tony Starkfans.
What to expect:This theme willchange the way
yourdesktopandshortcutsfunction.It'll make everythingrunning
applications andmulti-taskingmore efficient. Of course, all this as
a bonus to aslick look.
A Word of Caution:This method is fairly simple, takes about
15-30 minutes to set up and can be considered mid-level desktop
customization. However it is advised you follow my instructions
carefully.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Background:Let's start by getting thegreatwallpaperput together
by edreyes. Just save the image and set is as your background.
Rainmeter:Next thing you need to do is get Rainmeter, the
perfect customization tool.Downloadand install it. Make sure you
choose the 'run on startup' option during installation.
Once you've installed it and have it running you should have
several default illustro skins showing upon your desktop.
The default rainmeter skin (illustro) with our custom
wallpaper.
Rainmeter has many such skins and we are going to download and
installone particular SHIELDskin to bring together thatIron
Manlook.You can move any Rainmeter skin around by simply clicking
and draggin. Right clicking a skin gives you several options. But
more on that later. For now, let's move on to getting ourSHIELD
skin.
S.H.I.E.L.D OS skin by Daelnz:
This will be the base skin around which we'll build our
theme.Downloadthe skin and you'll have a .rmskin file. Run it and
hit install.After installation, go to your desktop and right click
on any of the skins and do the following on the menu that pops
up.Rainmeter -> Themes -> S.H.I.E.L.D. OS
Right click -> Rainmeter -> Themes -> Shield OS
Once you selectS.H.I.E.L.D OS,you'll have something like
this.
The default layout for the SHIELD skin.
On a side note,you candisable all desktopiconsbyright clickingon
thedesktop andselectingandView -> Show Desktop Icons.
Theeasy partisover. Now it's only a matter of editing things to
your preference. For starters, if you right click on any skin,
you'll have an option called Avengersin the menu. The sub-options
in this menu,control toggling on and off of all the skins.
Right click on a skin -> Avengers -> Toggle skins.
You canchange the color(orange, red and blue)of
theeachskinbymiddle-clickingaskin.
There are5main editable parts to thisskin.1. LargeLaunchers.2.
Small Launchers.3. Folder Launchers.4. WebpageLaunchers.5. Music
Player. To change what the launchers open or what music player you
are using, youneed a file called'config.inc'.The file is foundin
theDocuments/Rainmeter/Skins/Avengersfolder. Apath similar
tothis,C:\Users\username\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\Avengers. Open
the file with notepad. Once opened,you'll find several variables
defining thename,pathandiconused for each launcher.You must edit
them as needed. Change the paths,namesor iconsof the launcherswith
programs that you use. You can change the icons byusing the path of
image youwish to use as the icon. Thesameis done for the small
launchers, folder launchersand webpage launchers. To edit the music
player, go to the bottom of the notepad to find anoption forplayer.
Change it toitunesforitunes,wmpforWindows Media Playerandwinampfor
Winamp.Once you've changed all paths and applications as you need,
you canmove aroundthe skins as you like.
All set and ready to launch. (Click to enlarge)
And that's it! A custom Iron Man theme made by yourself! Give
yourself a little pat on the back. If you are already familiar with
rainmeter, you can add more skins to the theme to spice it up. If
you are new to rainmeter, you can play around with this skin and
learn.
Credits:Props toDaelnzfor making theawesomeS.H.I.E.L.D.
skinandedreyesfor putting togetherthe cool wallpaper.
Reset to default:Uninstalling rainmeter will remove the theme
and reset things back to default.- See more at:
http://www.themeraider.com/2012/10/shield-iron-man-theme-for-windows.html#sthash.DNvGGx9X.dpuf