As requested, here is those small plastic windows that I use on my config.
Can be seen in action on deviantART
Enjoy.

Just a variety of boxes for the graphically challenged.

Here are the pre-made GfX files of my Desktop.
You can Find the Config in the Pre-Exported Configs Section (couldn't up it in one piece for some reason).

Brief Description:

Components Used:

Icon Set : ChaNinja Style (by SubZero - can be found www.wincustomize.com)
Windows Theme: Aluminum Alloy for Windows XP v1.0.1 (by KoL - can be found www.maxthemes.com)
Background: Che (by Sunbeam)
Calendar Image by KenX (can be found http://www.oxygen-inc.com/kenx)
Simple Calendar 1.4 Script by uziq


This particular Samurize Skin was made in Combination of 2 screenshots i found on the Samurize
Web Page and the Windows XP Theme mentioned above.
SysBox (by http://www.samurize.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=711)
and Panther Samurize (by http://www.samurize.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=705)
where the 2 skins and if you put all together in the Blender, then you get that result

Hope u like it
(p.S.) use winrar 3.30 to unrar it

let me know what u think

This is the sidebar you all were looking for. Just one look at it will explain you everything. Long time this sidebar was privated and not given away. Today I release it. You have a chance to download MODIFIED version.
I also have 1280x800 version. If you need it. I will post it!

PS I care about ppl, not rating!

Sofisticated. Try out.

Another sliced skin with quite a few available colors (blue and green pictured) to choose from. There is a 10 pixel high "Center" that you may want to use for high boxes. Just stretch the bounding box beyond 10 points in the PNG properties and it will resize without distortion (I think).

2 Chrome cog's, can be used for meters. One blue, one green. Check out the screenshot.

Nice-ezz

UPDATE

- fixed somethings
- beter quality pictures
- added links to wallpapers
- again smaller file

update

- i sliced the skin not perfectly, it's fixed now
- smaller zip file

***check the screenshot***

aero glass longhorn skin

with much features:
- 8 different colors
- all sliced
- icons and much extra's

use your own imagonation

enjoy it

Thanks to those who led the way.
Inspired by new dego 5.

All the good information i could ever want, in a simple layout making
it easy to skin, adjust and configure to suite your system and personal whims.
Easily expand or shrink this skin to add/remove additional info.

- No skin graphics (weather icons excepted)
- No special fonts
- All components in editor nicely grouped and logically named
- Sparse plugins

Things to do:

Configure the weather.2004.ini plugin for DefaultLocationID and DefaultIconPath.
I think the simple_white icons looks best (included).

Update the Drives section, as this differs between systems a lot.
Add/remove HDD sections as needed.
Update the graph source, temperature source and % counter Per your hd instance.
Update the free space per drive beneath the graph, again adding/removing as needed.
Update the left click input per drive to match the drive letter so it opens on click.
Adjust the alert on HD temp if desired (I have it launch a util called dtemp).

Notes:

The network up/down graphs are actually 2 sitting on top of each other.
One is ranged from 0-10KB (graph micro) so small traffic can be seen, the other is
ranged 0-100KB so larger activity can be seen. Adjust to suite your network environment.
I saw there was a plugin now that will autoresize based on traffic levels, but havn't
tried it out yet.

- ebrew

Just some golden brackets I've kept stored in my Skins folder, figured they could be useful to someone, so here they are. Enjoy