Let’s assume for some time that you are customization junkie like me. You have customized almost every part of your Windows XP GUI and showing it to your friend(or girlfriend for some of you lucky guys!!). Your pals left awestruck by your beautiful GUI. But, while the time of shutdown, you get that mind numbing Windows XP default blue dialog box with those dull icons. I am sure you want to change this part also.

Sure, you can change that dialog box by editing system files shell32.dll and msgina.dll. But this could end up with your system messed up until you know what you are doing. Also other software like WindowBlinds provides skinnable dialog box, but are not free and you have to rely on the skin that author has created. So, here is the cool free utility that will do this work for you, Shedko sShutdown (Skinned Shutdown).

This utility intercepts a Windows function call of shutdown and applies a selected skin to the shutdown dialog box. You can apply various skins to this dialog. It supports PNG for themes and fully supports transparency. And best of all is you don’t have to patch your system files, its absolutely safe to use.

Upon installing for the first time, start this applictaion from Start Menu or from Desktop. Now select “Run sShutdown at Windows startup”, save and restart your system. After restart you can configure its various options like skin selection etc from tray icon.

Take a look at my screenshot below.

Download Shedko sShutdown from here.

You can download various themes for Shedko sShutdown from here.

If you want to create your own theme, you can grab a Theme editor from here. 

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