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                         Finally, after about 3 months of grand  release crafted for perfection 3.0, version 4.0 has arrived.  Anticipating what I pointed before that this release will be x64 and  Vista centric development, it may sound little sad for XP users since  those glories fall for Windows Vista mostly and some infamous XP x64  users. However, this release still worths a shot for old fan XP users  since it covered significant updates for 3rd-party applications like  ViStart and TrueTransparency with some fixes  and updates in program  itself, too.

Keynotes

Featured Windows Vista enhancements
The wait is  over. Now Windows Vista users can enjoy the Sevenization equally to  Windows XP users. This version covers more updates in system files. You  can customize Shell UI elements like file transfer and Start Menu logoff  buttons, Startup animation and tray icons to match with Windows 7. It  provides support for modified visual styles with giannisgx89's famous  Windows 7 visual style pre-installed. It's time to go fooling your  friends around with this customized Windows Vista that can be perceived  as Windows 7. If you think there's somewhere I can do more with system  files modification, tell me so I can prepare it for ya. I don't want to  mess with minor character icons though :D

x64 system files modification
Another wait is  over. Now your Windows XP x64 Edition (aka 2003 in XP shell) and Windows  Vista x64 Edition can fully support system files modification. Before I  explain how hard to make x64 system files support, let me tell you that  applications in this version supports x64 now and you can skip this  long paragraph. Since Windows XP x64 Edition doesn't have sysnative  folder for x86 application, I have to find workaround solutions that can  work with both OS and I found subst command-line that redirection  doesn't affact. However, reshacker-like application for x64 is required  and free so I picked Resourcer though it needs .NET Framework 2.0 and XP  x64 doesnt have it coming by default in some case but I have no choice  but to bet in Resourcer and modify its command-line code to work with  resources I have. I sent the portion of my little nasty code as I want  to keep changes minimum to the author of Resourcer and hope he will be  OK with GPL license. Maybe?

Localization support
Yet another very very long  wait is over :D. This feature has been requested for since earlier  versions of Vista Transformation Pack (Maybe even Longhorn  Transformation Pack). As you can see that there will be always  significant changes in program UI each time I release, making  translation file will surely be some kind of troublesome job to track  for changes and fix it. Since Seven Transformation Pack, it appears to  has lesser changes in program UI. This version shall be concluded as  stable for program UI and functions so I decided to start translation  support in this version. You can contribute the localization support by  posting your modified vilang.sif in community so people can host a  mirror with localized file you provided.

Major updates in 3rd-party applications
I don't  know if this should really be called for another wait is over and I'm  starting to feel tired talking like this. There're 3 applications that  got updated in this release which are ViStart, TrueTransparency and  ViGlance. For ViStart, it's more like rewriting than updating so not  much of features updates in this release but dramatic improvement in  performance and stability. It may contain some new bugs with winkey and  new keyboard for now but please bear with it for now since that's all I  can do with my caliber. For TrueTransparency, it's surprisingly more  stable in this version so I decided to unmark this application from  unsafe list as I missed features of Aeroshake and Aerosnap. This version  also come with long-anticipated feature "blur" supported so you'd  better update for sure. For ViGlance, it has some bugs fixed like  incompatibilities with new ViStart 7 and saving pinning items.

Well, that's all for 4.0 release in brief. Though previous version is  called perfection but this version is something beyond the perfection.  Have you seen any pack that does system files modification for both  XP/Vista and x86/x64? No, right? So this is an innovation based on  perfection. Ahhh, seems like I'm getting little cocky from finishing  this challenging task. Let's just download and enjoy the release now :P.