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Wing Commander Windows 95/98 Desktop Theme
(High Color) 

Version 1.0

By Stephane Guibord

guibs@writeme.com

http://pages.infinit.net/guibs

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Wing Commander!  A so wonderful universe where any WC fan would dream to live.  It's with this though in mind that I started to create this Wing Commander Theme, with the help of many Wc fan that I will state later.

I was looking since a while for a Wing Commander theme that would respect  the lova I have for this universe.  Un fortunatly, all the Wing Commander theme I found were mostly incomplete, or not god at all.  So I decided to create one!

I'm not alone in this adventure, so please take the time to go to the end of this text file to see who participated to make this theme come true!

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* Requirements            *
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Windows 95 User: You'll need Microsoft Plus! to install this theme.  I know that they are utilities that do the job and that can be found free over the Internet but I don't garantee that the results will be perfect.

Windows 98 User: Theme engine is inclued within Win 98 so you shouldn't have any problems using this theme and you'll be able to try the Active Desktop version of this theme!

You might need about 10 MB of free space on your C:\ drive

You will need to set your computer's color to 16 bit (High Color)

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* What's in version 1.0 ? *
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- 4 normal High Color Wallpapers
- 1 Active Desktop Wallpaper ( Must be running Win98 or Win95 with Internet Explorer 4 Active Desktop)
- 23 High color Icons 
- 14 cursors (8 animated)
- 32 .Wav files
- Start up and shutdown screens (start, wait and shutdown screens)

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* Installation            *
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To install this Microsoft Plus! theme, just extract everything at the root of your C: drive.  All the files will then be unzipped automatically in the right folders.  It's very important that you unzip everything at the C:\ root.

After you've unzipped the files, you just have to start your Plus! theme (Start, Settings, Control Panel, click on Desktop themes), and choose from the 5 differents Wing Commander's themes of your choice.

You may have to restart your computer to see the Wing Commander's font aply.

To install the Startup/Shutdown screens, go the the ( C:\Program Files\Plus!\themes\Wing Commander\Startup Shutdown Screens\ ) and read the installation note.

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* Active Desktop Theme note *
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Windows 98 Users and Windows 95 users with Internet Explorer 4 Active Desktop installed:

If you want to use the Wing Commander Active Desktop theme version, make sure you selected the option "Views as a Web page", here how to do it:

A) Before choosing the theme, right click on your current wallpaper, the first option should be "Active Desktop", select this option and you'll have 3 more options, Make sure the a CHECK is present next the "View as Web Page".  If not, click on it and the Check Appear.
B) Now you can select the theme : Wing Commander (Active Desktop).

If you do not make sure that the "View as Web Page" is selected, you're just gonna have an all black wallpaper.

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* Credits                 *
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The Wing Commander Theme wouldn't have been created without the help from many Wing commander fan.  Here the name of everyone who participated and what they did:

Theme creator : Stéphane Guibord
Wallpapers : Vincent Formosa (Great work! Outstanding!)
Wing Commander's Active Desktop wallpaper : Stéphane Guibord
Startup/Shutdown screens :  Stéphane Guibord
Icons: Stéphane Guibord
Sounds: many sounds were taking from Rick Thomas Nicholas Web site at http://confederation.simplenet.com/wingcommander/index.html
Windows Start and Exit music: Stéphane Guibord
Static Cursors: Stéphane Guibord
Animated arrows + Asteroid: Taking from the Imperial persuit theme made by the Great Captain Jim!
Animated Vampire pointer: Brad (sorry I don't have your last name... but Great Work!)
Animated Confed sign: Stéphane Guibord

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This theme is only at it's begining.  We could do half of what I wanted to do because ressources were missing. if you have any Wc1 and Wc2 images, sounds or if you have other Wc animated Pointer and general sounds (from all Wc games) or you have a Screensaver on Wing Commander, write me at guibs@writeme.com and your contribution could be added in the next version of this theme.

If you have any questions, suggestions about this theme, just write me at "  guibs@writeme.com  "

Thanks for using the Wing Commander Desktop theme.

Stephane Guibord



