| Give XP a better look
Posted: 3/6/2008 10:32:49 PM | For those that would like to change up XP's look a little without resorting to large clunky theme packs that can corrupt your system if you decide to uninstall them later. Here is a Microsoft theme that some of you that use XP Home or XP Pro may not know about still.
Microsoft released this theme to Windows Media Center 2005, but made it open for download to the rest of the public for a while now. The theme is called "Royale Blue" which gives the Taskbar and top page windows a more glosser look.
An example
http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP_1.jpg
Download link
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP.shtml | |
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clamo
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Joined: 1/20/2008
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| Give XP a better look
Posted: 3/8/2008 3:28:25 PM | | Weird. On my Media Center 2005 machines that theme uses a different wallpaper and is called Energy Blue. | |
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| Give XP a better look
Posted: 3/8/2008 6:51:03 PM | Yeah that Royale Blue is the New Zeland version. Microsoft released that type of Royale Blue on Micorsofts New Zeland website.
It's the same as the Media Center 2005 edition the only diff is the wallpaper. | |
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| Give XP a better look
Posted: 3/8/2008 7:09:03 PM | keeping those beautiful looks will slow your system ,better put a picture of you cat/dog /bird
how about a picture of your family
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Posted: 3/10/2008 2:43:11 PM | I haven't noticed this cause any slowdown at all. These do not require another program to run, like, say, WindowBlinds. The two machines I have used a number of these themes on are both single core 3 Ghz machines (circa 2005-2006 Intel and AMD processors).
Now that we're on it, here are some other links.
This is to another theme for XP from Microsoft, the Zune theme, released when the Zune media player went on sale: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078
And here's a uxtheme.dll patcher that will let you use a ton of other themes. Note that Windows will give you a couple of warnings that sound ominous, but you can cancel them and continue. I have had no problems after running the patch program and neither have the other people I know who've done this.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/UXTheme-Patch-For-Windows-XP-SP2-Final.shtml
And here's a link to themes that can be used after running the patcher.
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows/visualstyle/?order=9&alltime=yes | |
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| Give XP a better look
Posted: 3/11/2008 11:01:57 PM | | Don't know about all them high falutin' themes and skins .... and whether what is glossier ... or whether Royal Blue is bluer than blue. All I know is that I still enjoy the nude model on the beach as my desk-top wallpaper. | |
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Posted: 3/12/2008 10:01:54 AM | i have been using that for a long time...
i got it from here though.. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/
there also is a microsoft Zune theme.. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Microsoft-Zune-Theme.shtml | |
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clamo
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Joined: 1/20/2008
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| Give XP a better look
Posted: 3/12/2008 1:17:57 PM | yes it might make some weak computers slow down. but thats easily rectified by spending a few more $100 to a few more $1000 on your system.
just spent $1000+ upgrading mine to a 50% faster gaming rig. everything else just got moved over.  | |
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