Discovering Great XP and Vista Themes

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jun 24th @ 8:57 PM

I was recently stumbled across a link to this XP Zune theme when searching for ways to jazz up my older laptop. I had forgotten, but I used to really love this theme! The theme was sort of a take off on the also awesome “lost” XP theme - Royale Noir, but with a few tweaks. It’s sort of funny to look at this today, nearly two years later, as I’m running Vista. I still have a very similar color scheme going on now – a dark taskbar and Start Menu and a simple background that shows off my widgets and icons (I guess I’m not much for desktop cleanliness after all). The only variation is that I have blue/greenish windows now. Of course, this led me down the path of looking for a way to customize Vista's themes even more. I know Stardock has professional software to do so, but what about a simple free theme? I ended up here where I discovered a whole slew of themes, skins, and wallpapers for Vista, including the sleek and simple Chocolate Theme (pictured). Nice!

Tags: customization, customize, themes, Vista, Wallpaper, XP, Zune

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wetworker

Check out http://www.customize.org/ they have a great selection of skinz as well as icons

JonnyRocks

chocolate didnt work for me just dropped me to windows classic. The other ones weren't themes and wanted me to change system files. I will check ut customize.org.

sarahintampa

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#Jun 25th @ 10:49 PM

thanks for the link!

sarahintampa

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#Jul 4th @ 2:24 PM

I'm now giving Windows Blinds another whirl - I haven't used it in ages - wish it was free! But there are some even better skins over on devianart for it, as it turns out.

loopline

Thats a pretty slick theme! Another great place for themes is http://www.themes4vista.com. They have some of the same themes as the site you mentioned, but some different as well. All are free.