How to Install AstonShell Themes

[=== By Nerio ==]

In This Tutorial i’ll show you step by step how to install themes in Astonshell after the many mails i received since i make themes for this application

How To Install AstonShell Themes

How To Install AstonShell Themes For Newbies

Hello Am Nerio: In This Tutorial i’ll show you step by step how to install themes in Astonshell after the many mails i received since i make themes for this application. Well the procedure is really simple and don’t need any knowledge in anything! so follow carefully please! This shot is taken from my Chrystal Fusion Customizer Final Edition….The Wallpaper is By Arnold Ramirez Aka Axis000.

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After you have downloaded astonshell and installed it on your system click on the small icon on your desktop that says Shellswapper here is the shot! A window pop up and its similar…..

To the one shown here, tick the box where it says : Aston if it’s not already ticked, this mean that you wish that your computer switch to Astonshell From The Standard Windows Explorer….. When Ready click on the “NEXT” button

after that another box shows up : this box is seen only if you have windows neighborhood version, or on PC controls some other clients, anyway here you have the choice to switch to Aston for:

1. Administrators Only (The upper Box)
2. All users (The Lower Box)

after that another box shows up, here you will choose the modes for Astonshell

1. Default : makes Astonshell your default Shell, even after restart!
2. Alternative : makes Astonshell work by sides Explorer, this operation is recommanded only if you have a lot of RAM to waste, in some cases this will cause some bugs to the user!
3. IE 3.x compatibility : it’s for old and Slow machines mode, because Astonshell is currently the only Shell in the net that work safely in the slow machines!!

When ready click “NEXT” Button…..

This window cames to ensure that no resources or application will open accidently while performing the switch operation between Explorer and Aston….. In many cases computer needs to restart to switch, in Windows XP, it only Log off!

This will restore the desktop state if you have a specific icons or cursors, and the system color theme.

Don’t Forget: Aston Has its own cursors and icons and color sheme, it’s a part of the Fun it gives us!!

Now, basically you should see it loading, or restarting on Astonshell. with the standard plugins activated by default to give you a better idea how it works, or how it should looks like!

Now, if you wish to install a theme just you downloaded from the gallery section
of AstonShell.com site, it’s very easy, we’ll suppose that you have downloaded my theme called Chronos Final, it’s in a zip file, so copy this downloaded file to this directory : C:\Aston\Themes\.... Right Click it and choose Extract here as its show on the picture!

After you extract the downloaded theme, your theme directory should looks similar to this one. If the extracted theme do not looks like it’s in a Folder like here, create one and insert all it’s content in this created folder, then name it as the theme is supposed to be named!

Now, back to your desktop and double click anywhere in the free space of your desktop, the main menu and click on Theme Wizard

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A box like this one should appear and you should see the name of your favourite theme listed there, you have only now to select it, then click preview on the bottom of this window, it will load this theme. And finally you should be happy with it! Hope it was clear and simple for you all….good luck.

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