Complete Newbie

Hi there :-) <br /> <br />To be able to make or change skins (wrappers around programs so they dont look like windows default, these wrappers are mostly made out of BMP&acute;s or PNG&acute;s. In the future this will probably change to vectorbased stuff or so.. nevermind that) & icons you need one or more graphics applications such as Photoshop, MS Paint etc.. <br /> <br />Now the first thing you do (well,.. after getting to learn these programs some more..) is download some nice skins :-) Most come zipped, so unzip them to a nice place on your harddisk, open some of the pictures & start tinkering with them :-) <br /> <br />Icons are the same, just download some, open them in a graphics application and start playing with them :-) <br /> <br />A lot of people also &quot;hack&quot; into their files, for more information about this I suggest you go to the following site and read the about section: <br />http://wint.virtualplastic.net/ <br /> <br />A nice place to start reading (and the reading will take some days if you want to read it all...) is VP.net, the people on this site collected all they could & can find about &quot;surgery&quot; for windows :-) <br />http://virtualplastic.net/ <br /> <br />I hope this will give you some directions, have fun! <br /> <br />PK