Featured Windows Themes. With Custom Cursors, Icons & Sound, these Windows Themes are compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8 and Windows 7.Select a theme, click Download and run the theme pack to activate the theme. Do you miss the vintage Windows XP screen? Do you want your computer to time travel to 2010 and look like a Windows 7 PC? Want to change the default appearance of your Microsoft’s Windows 10 screen to look like Windows XP/Windows 7? Well, there are methods to apply Windows XP and Windows 7 themes.
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Have you been using Windows XP since a long time and tired of it’s dull looks? Then it’s time to give a facelift to XP by changing it’s look and feel.
There are lots of free visual style themes available based on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX, XBox, Linux etc. In this article, we present the best of them. If you are installing a Visual Theme for the first time on your Windows XP, then you might want to check our article How to install visual themes in Windows XP? first before applying the themes. Here goes our handpicked list of Twenty Best Windows XP Themes for your PC.
If you are looking for more Windows XP Themes, you might want to check our other article: 20 Awesome Windows XP Themes.
- Is it because of the theme patcher? Because I can't get it to work and I have the latest theme patcher which is intended for version 1809. Everytime I run it, it works fine, however it always says that uxtheme.dll does not need patching and that both uxinit.dll and themeui.dll are not yet patched.
- Windows XP themes are customizations of the graphical user interface of Windows XP. Luna, Royale, Zune, and Embedded are official themes designed for Windows XP by Microsoft. Since Windows XP, themes include visual styles. By default, the Luna theme is preinstalled on Windows XP Home.
- Once you’ve got UxStyle installed, head to Sagorpirbd’s DeviantArt page to get hold of some authentic looking Windows XP themes for Windows 10—UxStyle relaxes the Windows 10 customization.
Windows 8 and Windows 10 no longer include the Windows Classic theme, which hasn’t been the default theme since Windows 2000. If you don’t like all the new colors and the shiny new Windows 10 look and feel, you can always revert to the super-old-school look.
1. Vista Live Pack
One of the best Windows Vista based themes with a touch of Windows Live. There are many color variants, including Vista Live Blue (shown above), Vista Live Green, Vista Live Purple, and Vista Live Red.
Links: Vista Live Green + Vista Live Blue + Vista Live Red | Vista Live Pink | Vista Live Grey
Package Includes: ViOrb, Vistart, Visual Style, Styler, Wallpaper, Uxtheme patcher
Download Vista Live Pack
2. Seven Aero RC
Seven Aero RC is a light weightWindows 7 based theme. The theme replicates the looks of Windows 7 as closely as possible. Nicely made theme, worth a try.
Download Seven Aero RC
3. Windows Leopard XP OS X
Leopard OS X based theme brings OS X looks. If you are an Apple fan, you will love this theme.
Download Windows Leopard XP OS X
4. Luna Element Blue
Luna Element is an extremely elegant blue theme. If you want to keep the default colors of Windows XP but simply want to jazz it up, this one is a good choice for you.
Download Luna Element Blue
5. Ambient
Another Windows XP default color based theme but with a touch of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Download Ambient
6. CoverSutraXP
CoverSutraXP is a very elegant and stylish Windows XP black theme. The start button is replaced with Apple’s logo. However this is not a Mac based theme.
Download Cover Sutra XP
7. Zune Theme Color
This theme is based on Microsoft’s official Zune theme, which came in a default Orange color. Zune Theme Color is a modified version of this official Zune theme with a wide array of color choices, including pink, blue, green, red, violet, purple, black and so on.
Download Zune Theme Color
8. Xbox XtremeXP
Xbox fans will love this theme. Even if you are away from your Xbox station for browsing on your PC, you will never miss your favorite game station. The theme is inspired by WMP Xbox skin by Microsoft and comes in Blue and Green colors.
Download Xbox Xtreme
9. SmoothGnome
SmoothGnome brings Linux look and feel. The theme is simple, elegant and light weight.
Download SmoothGnome
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10. iQuantum
A very stylish and beautiful theme in Black and White colors will surely change your Windows experience.
Download iQuantum
11. Aqua X
Aqua X is another good looking Mac based theme. The aqua color makes your Windows XP look cool and refreshing.
Download Aqua X
12. ClearLooks
Another Linux based theme for XP, this one brings Ubuntu Linux Distro look and feel to your computer. Nice looking theme for Linux lovers.
Download ClearLooks
13. Royale Vista
This is a sleek Vista based dark theme for Windows XP. The theme pack includes Vista Icon pack and a styler toolbar.
Download Royale Vista
14. Luna Inspirat
Based on Luna colors, this theme revamps Windows into a glossy and elegant interface. The theme comes in Aqua, Graphite and Typha with right-sided shell styles, three styler skins (light with blue buttons, dark and light with green buttons) etc.
Download Luna Inspirat
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15. NeoGeniX
NeoGeniX is a dark theme with neon effects for text. This theme has four color choices: Blue, Green, Orange and Hot Pink.
Download NeoGeniX
16. ChaNinja Style RC5
ChaNinja Style RC5 is a bright and stylish theme which comes in 10 different colors. The Red version of this theme is set to put your Windows XP desktop on fire!
Download Cha Ninja Style RC5
17. Royal Inspirat
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This theme is inspired by the Windows Media Center Royale theme. An elegant theme with a soft touch for your XP PC.
Download Royal Inspirat
18. VXP
This modern classic looking theme brings a lot of colors to your Windows XP. We are sure your kids will love it!
Download VXP
19. Modded Royale
This XP theme is a modified version of Microsoft’s Royale visual style with thinner title bars, compact start menu and a different start button. The theme comes in three colors: blue, black and green.
Download Modded Royale
20. FuturaXP
A futuristic looking theme with metallic colors. This theme makes your desktop never look the same again!
Download FuturaXP
Enjoy your new XP!
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How To Get Windows XP/Windows 7 Look on Your Windows 10 computer
Do you miss the vintage Windows XP screen? Do you want your computer to time travel to 2010 and look like a Windows 7 PC? Want to change the default appearance of your Microsoft’s Windows 10 screen to look like Windows XP/Windows 7? Well, there are methods to apply Windows XP and Windows 7 themes on your Windows 10 computer.
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Luckily for Windows tinkerers, there are many tools that can help you customize Microsoft’s OS to suit your own tastes, on-screen visuals, etc.
In this article, we will show how you can skin Windows 10’s taskbar to give it a Windows XP appearance.
Classic Shell
Let’s first start with ‘Classic Shell’, which lets you skin the taskbar in Windows 10 and change it to Windows XP or Windows 7. The user can change the taskbar text color, change the color to make it different from the title bar color, change its transparency or set a background image or texture for the Windows taskbar. It also adds some productivity improvements, adding various tweaks to File Explorer and the Start menu.
Install the program on your Windows 10 machine and then right-click on the taskbar and select Settings. Toggle the Use small taskbar buttons switch to ‘On’, then click Colours and choose blue that is to the extreme left on the third row down. Scroll down and ensure that Show colour on title bar is enabled.
Once those Windows tweaks are taken care of, then download the Classic Shell XP Suite or Classic Shell Windows 7 suite from Winaero and extract all its files to any folder you like. The archive contains the taskbar texture, the wallpaper and the Start button to be used with Classic Shell. Right click the Start menu button to open Classic Start Menu Settings.
UxStyle
Conversely, you can also use the theming tool UxStyle to do the job (use the Windows 10 Technical Preview version). While this process is a little less involved than the Classic Shell one, but the end results is a touch more authentic, although the software you need isn’t all freeware.
Once you have installed UxStyle, go to Sagorpirbd’s DeviantArt page to get hold of some authentic looking Windows XP themes for Windows 10 — UxStyle relaxes the Windows theme signature requirements just enough to get these themes installed.
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The themes come in a RAR archive, and you need to extract them to the %windir%ResourcesThemes folder (just type the path into a File Explorer address bar). If you don’t already have a program that can extract RAR archives, 7-Zip will help you to do the job.
Once that is done, you can open up the Personalisation dialog as usual: Right-click on a blank area of the desktop and select Personalise. Choose Themes, and then Theme settings. If you scroll down, you will be able to view your newly installed XP themes.
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You will also notice that they are no changes in the taskbar, as this needs another tweak. You need the utility StartIsBack and a separate set of Start menu and taskbar skins. In this case, you need to copy your downloaded RAR files to the folder C:UsersAppDataLocalStartIsBackOrbs (for the orbs) and C:UsersAppDataLocalStartIsBackStyles (for the styles), at which point StartIsBack should be able to view them.
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Right-click the Start menu button, choose Properties, and the StartIsBack options panel appears. You can finish the XP transformation under the Appearance tab. Please note that the program is only free for 30 days, after which you will need to register it for $US2.99 ($4).
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UXstyle doen’t exist anymore. Development has stopped years ago. The last version was for windows 10 preview edition, it won’t run on current versions of windows 10.