Windows X's Live recommends:
Before and after making any changes to your system: Check Windows for registry errors
and make sure to run a free scan to check check for windows errors causing speed loss

After playing around with Windows 8 Developer Preview build 8102 in VirtualBox and explore system files for new resources, I can finally grasp the ideas of how I should update Windows 8 UI properly. To be honest, I don't really like the idea of having plain green logon background at all so checking system files helped me a lot to decide proper resources. I must apologize to all Mac OS X fans for delaying Lion projects again but the poll vote has very high momentum and new Windows 8 is just out with lots of updates so please wait for little longer until I can fully concentrate in Lion projects in next month.

Keynotes

Developer Preview theme UI updates
Normally, you can expect updated Windows 8 theme after new build is leaked in a day or two. However, it takes time to polish resources for proper theme. Now is the time I considered 'This is it'. Aero 8 Metro Mod 1.5 by our deviantart friend @jTc42 is work with quality with well refinements. I also tweaked his theme file a little to get the same colorization as ones in Windows 8 but that wouldn't matter if you use Auto-colorization feature.

Metro Start UI
In Windows 8 Transformation Pack, I started using Newgen instead of Mosaic with Windows 8 UI style. Now Windows 8 UX Pack will be using Newgen as well with my personal configuration that resemble ones in Windows 8 default configuration. It starts as full screen UI like ones in Windows 8 so if you want to switch back to desktop area, click on Desktop tile at the bottom left to return to desktop. You can click on the right edge of screen (dark grey bar) to open StartBar and click on Start to show Metro UI again.

Windows 8 Metro Start Orb
Although Start Orb changer is claimed to be safe memory patching explorer.exe start orb resources. However, Methods like changing winlogon's shell in Start Orb Changer is considered unsafe and potentials security risks, ViOrb is still the safest way for changing Start orb without causing any security risks. It may have some bugs with Windows 7 but I can still handle it to display properly. Hopefully Lee'll be back and update this project again soon.

New wallpapers
For christ's sake, we finally get tons of new wallpapers from Windows 8 and I put them in Screen wallpaper group. For Desktop/Logon Screen, I added new 'Developer Preview' option for default wallpapers. You may notice that Logon Screen ones isn't plain green like real Windows 8 but what I checked from system files convinced me to keep it like that. It could be lock screen UI or whatever in near future but this is certainly background for logon UI related stuff in this build.

Fixes and improvements
I received complaints about asking for admin rights everytime on startup with UX Launcher and now it's fixed for good. Everything will run smooth and fine with changes and improvements based on Windows 8 Transformation Pack. I also added .NET Framework 4.0 requirements check and proper uninstaller too.

Thanks to enthusiasm people like jTc42 and staff in Newgen team. They managed to pull out awesome updates within one week after release of Developer Preview build. Their recent updates yesterday made this whole pack a lot more awesome. I hope you guys will enjoy this release and it won't be soon before long for Windows 8 Transformation Pack 2.0 to get more awesomeness XD.

- Windows 8 UX Pack Product Page
- Download Windows 8 UX Pack 3.0 (Removed due to DCMA complaints)

Juboraz
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Re: Windows 8 UX Pack 3.0 Released
Reply #10 on : Sat April 14, 2012, 02:38:27

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good

josat57
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waiting
Reply #9 on : Sat March 10, 2012, 00:38:11

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Wow i can not wait to see how effective this all exciting windows will be!

morgan
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for xp
Reply #8 on : Fri October 07, 2011, 19:44:59

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when are we going to get windows 8 all the way up to 4.0 or 3.5?

Roffello
Posts: 1

Re: Windows 8 UX Pack 3.0 Released
Reply #7 on : Tue October 04, 2011, 10:14:51

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I don´t find the down. link... everyone kome another Programms.. i love Win8 ;D Please HELP

jancelorozco
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bueno
Reply #6 on : Sat October 01, 2011, 11:22:23

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god

zevelke
Posts: 1

Re: Windows 8 UX Pack 3.0 Released
Reply #5 on : Wed September 28, 2011, 07:51:46

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just want to try it out

sodacycle
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A Bug??
Reply #4 on : Wed September 28, 2011, 06:53:08

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Everything installed fine, I even used the start orb when I first installed this, then I uninstalled the orb. The problem I have is that after I customize the tiles ex: add twitter, gmail, remove pictures, and i have to restart the pc for whatever reason, I lose those settings. The tiles reset to default but my background image change stay's there. I've tried uninstalling it all and reinstalling it, but to no avail. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64bit.

hood
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Something strange
Reply #3 on : Tue September 27, 2011, 05:45:51

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I can't uninstall WTP8 v1, can't install WTP8 v3 over v1. Can't do anything. Can't install WTP8 v1 over installed one. Dunno why.

lordrt
Posts: 1

Re: Windows 8 UX Pack 3.0 Released
Reply #2 on : Tue September 27, 2011, 02:18:02

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Can we get something similar for XP as well, apart from the 8 TP?

Tata
Posts: 1

Re: Windows 8 UX Pack 3.0 Released
Reply #1 on : Thu September 22, 2011, 03:47:50

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Thank you, v3.0 is working very well :)