Comments on: Unofficial Windows XP Themes Created by Microsoft

By: Helpful Nerd

Helpful Nerd — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:39:52 +0000

Hey everyone, Howdy Geek

Love your site, big fan. Great info, and I check your site all the time for new stuff. Just wanted to add another comment about the Windows Themes by MS. I found another official / unofficial theme called Embedded.

I recently started my own blog, helpfulnerd.com to help people with their computers. If my blog gets 1/4 the traffic you get I’ll be very happy. I collected all four themes and made them available through Mediafire. There is a download link at the bottom of my article. No junk, no crap, no adware, etc, just the four themes in one handy download.

I hope you all enjoy. A big shout out to the Geek for making this article, the one that inspired me to write my own. I hope you don’t mind that I just plugged my site. I love your site and use it often, and I enjoy helping people with their computers too. We nerds and geeks are a community right? I takes all of us to help.

Thanks
Helpful Nerd

By: Msk

Msk — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:54:03 +0000

The zune theme is stylish coz of its black & orange mix. Royale is just glossier than the default theme.

By: Orange

Orange — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:21:30 +0000

@ Eli What? upgrade your computer!

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:25:19 +0000

There is also a theme on crystalxp.net under bricopacks that is called Vista Inspirat 2 that give you a new theme like the real Vista. It even has the cursor set!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:59:23 +0000

Hey! I love you guys! seriously for months now ive been stuggling to get my xp theme to work atleast, ( its not in the themes drop down menu ) had to deal with ugly classic windows. Downloading Zune told me that my themes manager wasn’t enabled, so off i went turned it on and Voila!! there she blows a beautiful load of skins and the ability to change it to xp whenever i want!! Thank god!!

Cheers

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:33:10 +0000

Does anybody know how I could hack the resource for the Zune theme to make the start button turquoise?

I did the ol’ bitmap switch with my own BMP, but it screwed up everything. lol.
Any ideas?

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:05:10 +0000

I’ve been using zune theme for quite awhile now, and i think that it is great.
There is this patch for the zune theme that lets you change the color of the orange.
Pretty neat, check it:http://th04.deviantart.com/fs13/300W/i/2007/067/e/b/Zune_Theme_Color_Mod_by_atomikscr.jpg

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:15:26 +0000

Windows XP Embedded theme was released on october 07.I prefer this one.He looks pretty.Combined with WMP11 in blue are specially cute.
1.)Embedded Theme
2.)Media Center Theme AKA Energy Blue
3.)Zune Theme
4.)Royal Noir
Kind regards.

By: Josh Dunlavy

Josh Dunlavy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:59:23 +0000

Does anyone notice how incomplete most of these Microsoft themes are? Pitiful.

Zune Theme: Check out “Music Tasks” in My Music directory. See the graphic in the lower-right corner? Ugh! Also, don’t any of you notice the incomplete pink pixel on the start menu (if account picture is displayed and you’re not on a domain). There are other mouse-over errors introduced in this Zune theme that are all solved by the amazing “Zune Complete” package. Google it.

Noir Theme: Anyone who uses this theme has low standards. Completely ugly with incomplete roll-over effects. Beta at best.

Royale Theme: This is actually professional. So, out of three signed msstyles, we only get ONE usable theme from Microsoft.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:29:30 +0000

Hey I got these, was happy to find others rather than standard ”green-blue-silver” royal noir is nice. Works fine for me. Using XP sp2 on laptop. No problems as of yet. So happy to find these, hope someone can find some more. Happiness to all and all peace.

Ryan

p.s. zune theme is really cool too.