win2-7 transforms Ubuntu into Windows 7 with scarily accurate results

By , Published April 21, 2010

Win2-7 Pack provides an all-in-one solution for transforming your Ubuntu desktop into one very closely mimicking Windows 7 €“ complete with Windows 7-style taskbar!

Although OS skinning is not to everyone's taste many people enjoy the novelty of doing it €“ as can be seen by the popularity of other OS X and Windows transformation packs on gnome-look.org! 

The latest version of the transformation pack, 4.8 Beta, has just been made available so what better time to try it out?

What you get (a lot)

Win2-7 pack weighs in at a relatively hefty 43.39 MB. Why so large? It's crammed full of extra applications and themes; don't be under the impression that it is just a GTK theme!

The main element of the pack comprises: -

  • Windows 7 style icon themes
  • Windows 7 style GTK, Metacity & Emerald themes
  • Windows 7 sound theme
  • Wallpapers

Added into this are: -

  • Emesene theme
  • Terminal theme
  • GNOMenu themes
  • Pidgin tweaks
  • OpenOffice splash screen
  • Fonts
  • Emoticons
  • DockBar theme

Download

Download available over @ gnome-look.org

Installation

Extract the downloaded archive somewhere accessible. Enter it and run (double click) the "install.sh" file to install.image

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://papablogger.com PapaBlogger

    What a great effort !! Most people are just afraid to walk away from Windows and perhaps this can be useful to make them slowly change to Linux.

  • http://twitter.com/adonetubuntu J.Adolfse

    This is impressive.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/GhostlyChaos117 THE SE7EN SINS

    Not bad, I wonder if it changes your boot logo like it did on Macubuntu, the problem with that is I couldn’t uninstall it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1076280199 Adam Miller

    I think I’m going to try this out…

  • http://twitter.com/adonetubuntu ubuntu install

    Will it work in Natty (ubuntu 11.4)?

  • http://twitter.com/adonetubuntu ubuntu install

    Will it work in Natty (ubuntu 11.4)?

  • Anonymous

    This is wonderful, thank you! I just installed it on my sister’s laptop, running Ubuntu 10.04 and it worked beautifully. I liked that the script told you what it was doing and let you know where it was making a backup of your original configuration- excellent practices that too few people put the effort in to do. The outcome is very Windows 7. I’m using this theme to sneakily introduce my sister to Linux in an effort to never have to wipe de-virus her laptop again and this was the perfect tool :)