This is a shell modification pack that replaces XPish resources with their counterparts from Windows 2000 (with bits taken from Windows ME, screenshots of Whistler betas, and some artistic license tossed in where appropriate). Obviously, the appeal of something like this is somewhat limited, but I expect there's a few people other than me who might want to use the older style, either out of nostalgia, because they find it to be cleaner and more usuable, or simply out of a preference for the pixel-art style. There are a lot of advantages to using the newer operating system, especially after the release of Service Pack 2; if you don't feel the iconset is one of them, now it doesn't have to be 
It also includes a reloader to re-Inexperience your system files if necessary, and an uninstaller to restore them to their original state. It is designed to work on all language versions and editions of Windows XP and Server 2003. 64-bit versions of Windows are NOT supported.
I made this pretty much for my own personal use, but I know there's a (very) few others who are interested in it, so I decided to make a release of it. If you like it, great, otherwise, you are irrelevant. If you want something specific de-XPified, or if you find any bugs, tell me about them, and I'll try to get them sorted in the next release.
Last Updated (2007/03/17): Update for SP3, import some bugfixes from Tango Patcher 2600 8.06. Those security center shields look like crap...
Honestly, I'm kinda curious to know how many people still use this - as SP3 is likely to be the last new comctl32.dll for XP/2003, unless there's some kind of feature request, this is quite likely the last update this'll ever get.
It also includes a reloader to re-Inexperience your system files if necessary, and an uninstaller to restore them to their original state. It is designed to work on all language versions and editions of Windows XP and Server 2003. 64-bit versions of Windows are NOT supported.I made this pretty much for my own personal use, but I know there's a (very) few others who are interested in it, so I decided to make a release of it. If you like it, great, otherwise, you are irrelevant. If you want something specific de-XPified, or if you find any bugs, tell me about them, and I'll try to get them sorted in the next release.
Last Updated (2007/03/17): Update for SP3, import some bugfixes from Tango Patcher 2600 8.06. Those security center shields look like crap...
Honestly, I'm kinda curious to know how many people still use this - as SP3 is likely to be the last new comctl32.dll for XP/2003, unless there's some kind of feature request, this is quite likely the last update this'll ever get.
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Thank you for this
Now i think I may even edit the windows xp install files to make them look like 2000 as well and use nlite to set the install to classic which I love anyways.
Thank you and also how did you manage to get all of this to fit in one install with that size being small? As it started to download as quick as i did (in under 2 secs) I was thinking to my self "ok this program is going to need the files from the 2000 disk to do it but after it installed and restarted, my mouth dropped to the floor
Thank you for this
First the virus issue: it doesn't contain viruses. But in order to change icon you have to modify system files. In this case, that's completely innocent, but a virus could use it to install itself and to make it harder to remove it. This is why some virus scanners recognise it as a virus.
Secondly: it does patch system files on Windows 7 32-bit. However, the location of the most visible icons - like those in Windows Explorer - has changed since Vista. Because of this, only a few changes are actually visible (if you open shell32.dll, the old location for the icons in Windows Explorer, you'll that those are patched, but Windows Explorer doesn't use them anymore). This can be fixed by writing scripts for the new files and repacking.
I haven't tested it on a 64-bit version. I'm fairly sure it doesn't work. However, I have noticed that this tool uses Resource Hacker 3.2 to change the system files. This version did not support 64-bit, while later versions do. This means that it /might/ just be a matter of including a newer version of Resource Hacker to support 64-bit, but as I said, I haven't test it.
(Under the "more like this" suggestions)
I had trouble figuring it out initially as well.