Make Windows XP Feel More Like Home For A Mac User

I've switched my main computer at work over to my PC. Not by choice, and my trusty G5 is still close at hand, but now I have to focus on Windows development. In doing so, I found that making a few cosmetic changes and tweaks make it feel a lot more like home.

1. Change the font used for window titles and menus to verdana. XP has lucida grande, but it's a lot less grand on XP than it is on the Mac. Verdana is a good UI font.


2. Make the cursor black. The Mouse control panel has a small black preset that is macish.


3. Use the Silver xp color scheme.


4. If you write code, get ProFont. Windows has crappy small size monospace fonts. ProFont allows you to see more than 5 lines of code in the little spot in the middle of Dev Studio that still shows code after you open up all of those assinine docked panels.


5. Mozilla Thunderbird is pretty close to Apple Mail. Unfortunately, I have to use Lotus Notes at work, regardless of PC or Mac.

I'll add more items as I discover them.