Have you restyled your whole windows to make it look clean and polished ? Did you work countless hours trying to find skins and icons, to make everything just right ? And there is only a few things left and you just cant style them.. like the control panel and ill show you how..
1. The Icons
First off all you need a complete Iconset for Iconpackager and off course IconPackager itself. The set i created and used is Vista XP Deluxe Icons. Be aware IconPackager styles your Control Panel Icons only if you have the "licensed" Version and the section within IP checked. Be sure to check it under "Packages > Include" to the right of the application.
2. The Copy Process
As you will see IconPackager can only skin a default set of Control Panel Icons. So what do we do with the unskinned ones that cant be changed ? This is the solution: Simply drag them to the Control Panel Item "Administrative Tools", which is just a Folder and you will be able to easily access them in near future as a link to the original file.
Below you can see the unskinned items as links in "Administrative Tools", you could even change there icons too, because they were turned to links.
3. The Cleanup
What now ? Hiding the unskinned icons which you wont use very often anyway from the Panel. We can do that by using "Tweak UI" from Microsoft Powertoys pack. Download it here.
Then Launch Tweak UI and goto "Control Panel" Section to hide the elements you copied to "Administrative Tools" first. You can off course toggle them to visible again if you need to!
4. Finished
And your Control Panel could look similiar to this:
