This is my Ultimate, end all guide to making XP look and feel like Vista. This is not a single-option guide, you can customize your machine the way you want it. Do all of this at your own risk, I will not be responsible for any damage done to your machine. Also, I will constantly update this guide if I find anything interesting.
Being a large guide, so I broke it up into several sections:
1. Theme and Visual Styles
2. Cursor and Sounds
3. Boot and Logon screens
4. Icons
5. Transparency / Glass
6. Sibebar
7. Wallpapers
8. Screensavers
9. Start Menu and Button
10. Firefox and Explorer
11. Transformation Packs
12. Other Features

Hidden Recorder is an invisible and easy-to-use PC activity monitoring tool that captures screenshots of the active application window or the entire desktop at the predefined time intervals varying from 5 seconds to 1 hour and saves the recorded images to a specified directory on the hard drive.

The images can later be viewed with the built-in image viewer. This tiny and smart spy software can be used at home to control what the members of your family do on the PC when you are not watching. It is also a great employee monitoring and surveillance tool that can help you prevent the misuse of corporate resources and other, more serious, incidents. The program loads on Windows startup and quietly runs in the background completely hidden from everyone but you. It uses very little resources and does not degrade the performance of the system it is running on. The program can also be password-protected, so that even if someone learns the hot key, he or she will not be able to disable the snooper or modify any of its settings.

RestoreIT combines the ?set and forget? data backup of RestoreIT with the hard disk cloning of DriveClone. This makes for a powerful but user-friendly data backup solution that enables recovery from virtually any kind of data disaster, including hard drive failure.

RestoreIT automatically backs up all files on your computer to a protected partition on your hard drive. After a virus attack, a Windows crash, or a software installation gone wrong, RestoreIT will return your system to normal, even when Windows does not boot. RestoreIT also lets you to store a complete snapshot of your C: drive to a networks share or to an external USB hard drive.

DriveClone saves a complete copy of your hard drive to CD, DVD, or to a USB external hard drive. This 1:1 copy lets you quickly recover, replace, or upgrade your hard drive in case of any catastrophic data disaster. Your files, settings, and installed software will appear exactly as they were when you created the cloned image.

Omniformat
OmniFormat is a free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG. For a full list of supported formats please see our FAQ page.

3D Virtual Desktop is cool small program which doesn’t require even a installation and lets you manage 4 desktop in 3d Environment. You can rotate it left or right and can have 4 desktop with as many programs opened. You just have to download and unzip it. Then run the “YouDm 3d” to start the service. You might not get any effect when you just click it. You need to set some of the settings and then use the hot keys to move your windows in and out and rotate to chose another desktop.!!!
You will have to use the hot keys like ctrl and shit so that you can rotate around the desktops. Here is the configuration screen. Don’t forget to choose your language when you start the screen. This can also be configured to start with windows.

You can also choose to use anti aliasing feature and your graphics hardware to be used or not. It will depend on you hardware. Right now , my screen becomes little blurred when i rotate it but thats it. Thats not a problem.

Mp3Doctor is the ONE AND ONLY software specialy designed to improve/modofy/fix/repair your Mp3 or Wav files. The philosophy of Mp3Doctor is to bring to the home or professional user a SIMPLE and EASY way to manipulate in a very accurate and advanced way the sound files without the need to be an expert in audio. Now everyone could give some make-up to his sound files before burning a CD or just to have a standarized set of Mp3 or Wav files.