| Here are some free utilties to make your Windows environment a little more Packer-friendly. All utilities are provided here by permission from their authors. I've tried to give some simple instructions with each one, but please understand that I do not provide support for any of these utilities. If you need assistance, then you may want to hire a highly-skilled, fully-insured, factory-authorized, ASE certified technician.
Start Button With 'G' Logo by Dennis Jenders
djenders@csd.uwm.edu · www.uwm.edu/~djenders
(sorry, I lost track of how to contact Dennis) Change your Windows 95 Start button from this  to this  . - Download this file: gstart.zip 269Kb
- Unzip it in a temporary directory.
- Follow the instructions in the provided readme.txt file.
Helmet Wallpaper from the South End Zone  Check out this very simple wallpaper image. It's just a helmet in the center of the screen with plenty of open field (natural grass of course) around the sides so that your desktop icons won't get lost. Each zip file below contains two wallpaper images, one with the helmet facing left and the other facing right. - Download one of these files:
sez640.zip 208Kb 640x480
sez800.zip 223Kb 800x600
sez1024.zip 294Kb 1024x768 - Unzip it in a temporary directory.
- Move the bitmap images to your windows directory (usually c:\windows\).
- From your Start menu, select 'Settings' then 'Control Panel'.
- Double-click on the 'Display' icon.
- Scroll through the Wallpaper window to find the images that start with "SEZ".
- Highlight the image you want, then click 'OK'.
NFL Icons by Steve Staser
sesj1@concentric.net · www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/4358/   . Change your desktop icons or your start menu icons to any of 30 team icons. The set also includes an NFL icon and the two conference icons. - Create a new directory somewhere called NFLICONS.
- Download this file: nflicons.zip 58Kb
- Unzip the file in this new directory.
- On your desktop, right click on the icon you wish to change.
- Select "Properties", click on "Shortcut", click on "Change Icon", then click on "Browse".
- Find your new NFLICONS directory and select the icon you want to use.
- Click 'OK', then click 'OK' again.
Packers Desktop Theme by Richard Becker
rbecker@wlgore.com · www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/6669/ - Download this file: packers.zip 533Kb
- Unzip it on your C drive (or whatever drive contains windows). You must use an unzip utility that supports long filenames (like WinZip 6.0a or later).
- The unzip process will add a new screen saver file in your \Windows\System\ directory. It will also create a new directory in your \Program Files\Plus!\Themes\ directory which contains all the files necessary for the theme.
- From your Start menu, select 'Settings' then 'Control Panel'.
- Double-click on the 'Desktop Themes' icon.
- Click on the "Theme" drop down box and select your new theme.
- Click 'OK.
  Also, be sure to check out Rick Stavanja's Packer Pages. He's got wallpaper images, icons and animated cursors that will spruce up any Packer fan's PC. |
