[UPDATED] Tutorial: Sword Art Online Theme (Rainmeter Skin) for Windows

*** UPDATE July 1st, 2013 ***

Sorry for the late updates! I will include how to change your Icon picture in this update :)
Scroll down to the end of post for the tutorial :3

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Halo-

As promised, here is the tutorial of SAO Theme for Windows (*≧∇≦)/

Disclaimer: I'm not the owner of this awesome theme! I'm just sharing it with you guys

(Video is my own resource)


Original Author:


SAO Skin pack by ~rdrag at deviantart
Project SAO by aerionel at deviantart
SAO Kirito by milkkybunny at deviantart
SAO Menu 刀剑神域菜单 by suixin0812 at Baidu 



First off~
1. Download your rainmeter here.
(http://rainmeter.net/cms/)

2. Install the Rainmeter~

3. Download the Rainmeter skin here.

4. Click on the "Downloads Skins Sword Art Online Kirito" to get the .rar file.

5. The password of the .rar file is sharemulator

6. Extract your .rar file

7. You should see something like this on your extracted folder

8. Install the 3 .rmskin files by double-clicking them.

9. Run your rainmeter and right click on it > Rainmeter > Skins.

10. You should see the Kirito, SAO, and SAO Menu after you installed the 3 of them.

11. You can click on their components to display the menu.

The left-side menu is called "SAO main.ini",

The RAM monitor is called "SAO ram.ini",

and so on.

12. How to edit the SAO Menu?

Simply right click on the SAO Menu > Edit Skin.

13. A Notepad will be opened automatically and we will modify the codes there :)

14. You can use ctrl + f to search this = m1Item1String.

It will show you the title for the first menu (apple logo).

You can change the title here :D

15. Now for the tricky part; modifying the program.

After changing the titles, if you scroll down a bit, you will find the "m1Item1Item1Action" groups.

They hold the URI of your programs.

16. You can change the program URI by following these steps:

- Right click on the program you wish to be added to the menu.

- Click on Properties and you will find something like this:

- Copy all the text on "Target".

- Paste the text between the [ and ] symbols.

- You can change the other URIs as well with the same steps :)

16. Now refresh your rainmeter by right clicking it and click on "Refresh Skin".

Voila! Your programs are ready to work :D

Notes: I haven't tried to add or delete the menus, changed the icons, and so on.
I will let you know ASAP (check my facebook) if I managed to modify more :3

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*** UPDATE: How to change your icons? ***

1. Locate your Rainmeter folder (the path where you installed it) as for me, it is located on My Documents > Rainmeter.

Next..

2. Go to Skins > SAO Menu > @Resource folder.

3. Inside the folder you will see the default icons, you can change the icons by simply using any Image Editor software (e.g.: Adobe Photoshop).

4. After modifying your icons, do not forget to save it and refresh the Rainmeter by Right Clicking the Rainmeter on your Desktop and click on Refresh Skin.

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