I'm wondering how people use computer software to create a vista. I know that I can go onto Google or Yahoo! or whatever and download different vistas, but I was wondering if I could make my own that would be realistic.

What programs do you recommend? I would prefer free, open-source software that preferably works on Linux. As for the companies providing CDs/packages of vistas, do they actually create it themselves or do they have to go to take them?

Just wondering.

What do you mean by 'creating a vista' ? Do you mean customizing a Vista installation like OEMs do ? Microsoft supplies tools for doing this and vlite is great for stripping and creating unattended installs of vista.

I don't mean customizing a vista, because I don't think vista has lots of things you can customize in it. I mean how do you create one? Of course anyone can open existing ones and modify them any way they want, but I'm talking about creating one.

As for OEMs, sometimes they include vista with their computers when you purchase them. I've only purchased my computers from Dell, and they included a default vista on it when it came.

So what kind of software would you use to create a vista?

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean.
Are you asking how to do, when Linux is installed on a computer, in order to replace Linux by Microsoft Vista ?
Or do you ask how Microsoft did in order to step from XP to Vista ?
or is your word "Vista" a way of meaning an image to put on your computer ?

I am so confused as well. Vista usually stand for Windows Vista on the Internet. If you mean vistas as in themes, then you can customize them through many different methods available on the Internet.

Windows XP and Vista are very customizable when it comes to changing their themes.

xboxrulz

You mean like rebuilding Vista like you rebuild a linux kernel ? You can forget that, Vista is absolutely not open-source thus recreating and recompiling it is impossible.
About the OEMs, they do modify Vista buy branding it (This Computer>Properties, there you'll see the manufacturer's logo), pre-installing the drivers and integrating other software.


Btw. you can customize Vista in many ways, stripping it with vLite, changing the feeling (themes, sounds, mouse cursor and other completely useless stuff), installing some nifty programs like quick launchers ...

I guess vistas can be used in themes, but all I want to know is how to create a vista, not customize themes on Windows. And no, I don't mean rebuilding Windows Vista. I don't mean customizing a vista either, I want to know if I can make a vista.

Someone mentioned some Linux software. Is there some open-source software that I can use to create my own vistas on Linux? Either that or I can use freeware on Windows to try to create my own vista. I don't want to purchase software to do this because I'm just experimenting with this.

So, back to our first question. What do you name "a vista" ? Now we know that :
. It is not a Windows vista customization.
. It is not a Windows new version.
However, what is it ? Please write down a definition, or give us a link to the definition or to some examples of what you name "a vista".

Wow, this is the most confusing question I've ever seen in an Astahost forum post.

FirefoxRocks, can you please define a "vista" because no one really understands you unfortunately.

xboxrulz

Are you meaning Vista as in the photographic or artistic term of of a very wide shot of something like a land scape?