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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna show you probably one of the coolest of windows mobile skins we've ever seen it takes a while to set up but once you do it's pretty darn cool and when I turn on this device you're gonna know immediately what it's skinned after so let's do it and we'll zoom in a little bit and you guessed it right it looks like Windows 7 this uses wise bar advanced desktop too plus a variety of plugins to get the desired effect and it operates very similarly to how it works on a laptop or desktop so let's take a look at kind of the features included here so we tap the Start menu to get a Windows 7 like Start menu we can go into computer and get a list of all of the drives that we have well sort of rom RAM and anything left on the micro SD card on your device and over here on the left a lot of this isn't clickable but some of it is let's see if we tap documents we jump into My Documents and let's go back to computer and some things don't work such as music it just takes you back to this area and there's some other things you can click on here you can obviously launch any of these programs by tapping on them you can do a search by tapping on the search area again this is where it turns into some kind of a program launcher if we tap on the shutdown button we're taken into kind of a lock screen which looks really cool and to get back in you just tap on the little right arrow and you get a fade in let's see what else you can do you can obviously click and drag the icons and kind of rearrange things we can click on control panel it's a link right to the control panel some of these things down here are very similar to how they look in Windows 7 so we get a volume control a volume slider which we move up and down we can tap on this little button here which is sort of your network status and you can see the buttons in the upper right corner are very reminiscent of Windows 7 you can tap the power button and we can't actually change the power plan like you can in Windows 7 but it kind of looks just like it we can tap on the clock to get a little pop-up like we would on Windows 7 and also this little up arrow actually is a task manager that will let you switch between various open applications so overall a very very cool skin for Windows Mobile death more so for the advanced users there's a lot of things you can change about this to kind of customize it and make it work the way that you want to set up takes a while unless you're an events user so again we're going to post instructions on pocketnow.com on how to do this but if you're not an advanced user you may not want to give it a try or you may be dealing with many hours of frustration but a pretty cool way to use Windows Mobile to have an interface that looks like Windows 7 that's it for now