Noozii Visual Style by Nookian

(Pronounce: nu-zi. it is a variation of noisy)

Last updated: Dec 16, 2008
(if you use an earlier version, download the latest one)

Attention: The visual style has no logoff/shutdown button (see explanation below).

This visual style is an experiment with noise! It is definitely a deviation from the usual smooth and gradient visual styles.

You will see noisy window title, buttons and dialog background. Other feature is that it has very thin scrollbars (to save space). I know no other noisy VS so if you do, pls let me know so I can link to, thx.

1. The startmenu has no shutdown/logoff button. And the main reason is that the default shutdown/logoff button has hot tracking (solid) background when hovering. So no matter how gorgeous the logoff button is without hot tracking, that hot tracking rectangular box behind the active logoff button is kind of out of place (you know what I mean).

One way to eliminate the problem is to use the hot tracking the same color as the highlight and flat logoff panel (I used this technique in other skin). But for this skin, that is not the case. So the logoff/shutdown buttons have to go. Instead, you create a shortcut to a logoff program in the Quick Launch toolbar (see the door icon at the top left corner in the preview).

Download shutoff the app: [link]

Then go to "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch" (replace UserName by your actual user name) and create a shortcut to shutoff.exe there.

Alternatively, you can have a shortcut to shutoff on a dock.

Removing the logoff button also allows me to have two fully vertical panes in the startmenu.

2. To have the transparent taskbar as in the screenshot, you need to run fadebar. Download [link]

3. If you use styler TB to drop shadow, you also need to put NoBar in the package in the corresponding folder in the styler folder and then use NoBar shadow. If you do not use StylerTB shadow, ignore this section.

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Thanks ~vekanoid, ~krissirk, ~luckylook33, ~emmanemma for improvement suggestions.

If you found a problem, send me a note.

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Suggestions and critics are very welcome (as well as fav ).

This work is released under creative common license; free to mod for personal use only.