Install Instructions

The installation process is kinda simple, but you must know some things before to start to use the theme, mainly due to some restrictions that Microsoft has putted in Windows XP.

Background. If you don’t have installed any theme besides the standard Luna theme (with their blue, olive green and silver schemes) and this is the first time you're trying to install a new one, you won’t be able to do it unless you prepare your system to handle non-Microsoft themes. As Microsoft never had the intention to let you to use foreign themes, they have set a lock in the file Uxtheme.dll which is the file that manages the themes in windows, and is the responsible for check whether a theme is digitally signed by Microsoft or not. If so, the theme can be applied and used with no restrictions, but when the signature doesn’t exists then the theme can’t be applied (of course mine isn’t Microsoft digitally-signed). There is a way to take down this lock, using a tweaked uxtheme.dll file with no signature-management enabled. The only restriction for the use of an uxtheme.dll file is the XP version that you’re using on, and it depends of whether you’re SP1 user or not. I’ve posted both the non-SP1 and SP1 tweaked files for download, please choose one according your needs:

Download Uxtheme file for non-SP1 systems
Download UXtheme file for SP1 updated systems

This file must replace the one located in your System32 folder; if you don’t know how to replace system files, I strongly recommend you read this tutorial BEFORE to try change anything in your system. After replace the file, you must RESTART your system in order to make the changes to work.

The easy way: StyleXP. It’s an application developed by TGT Soft that will let you use any theme available (even non-Microsoft themes) without make any modification to your system files, plus have some extra features such as theme’s management, so you won’t need to tweak anything and you can forgive the uxtheme.dll thing. It’s almost perfect but it has a big flaw, isn’t free. Anyway, if you want to give it a try please go to their web page, where a shareware version is available for download:

http://www.tgtsoft.com

Installing the theme. Ok, you have tweaked properly your uxtheme.dll file or you have downloaded and installed StyleXP. What’s the next? Windows uses a specific folder to store and load all the themes located in your system. That folder is located here (where X means your XP installation drive):

X:\Windows\Resources\Themes\

What you’ll need to do in order to be able to apply and use this theme and all their content, is decompress the file Iceman’s Jaguar 2.0.zip in this folder, paying attention to do it using the “Use folder names” feature in Winzip or the files won’t keep their relative location and the theme won’t work. Once done this, in your Themes folder you’ll have four new files with the .theme extension plus a new folder called Iceman's Jaguar.

Now please open your Display Properties window (do right-click in your desktop and select Properties), in the first tab, called Themes you’ll see four new options available, Jaguar Aqua Blue, Jaguar Aqua Graphite, etc. All you must do is choose the one of your preference and click in the Apply button, that’s all.

Installing the fonts. As you can see, the theme looks good but a bit plain. It’s because you’ll need to install the right font, Lucida Grande. That’s the font used in the theme, and was ported by Hugo from the original OS X. In the decompressed folder Iceman's Jaguar (which is located inside your Themes folder) you’ll find another folder called Fonts with three Lucida versions: Lucida Grande, Lucida Grande Bold and Lucida Sans Unicode. Please install them in your system as is usual, copying them to your X:\Windows\Fonts\ folder. If you have installed any previous version of the Lucida Grande font, I strongly recommend you replace the existent one with this ones I’m providing you, it’s the best Lucida Grande font even ported. If you can’t see font changes in your screen, just restart your PC and you’re done.

Additional Icons. Also in the Iceman's Jaguar folder you’ll find more icons ported from the original OS X and a few that I’ve made specifically for this release, you can use it for customize your system as you wish.