xp themes

[chosen_one666]

It could have been. My memory is as bad as Spatials.

No, it was Spatial.

Its called Royal Five - its available for Style XP

[Spatial]

Nope, Demon's mind is the worst out of us all

http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showpost.php?p=464443&postcount=701

edit :- and damn my rickety old fingers for typing too slow

[demon9k]

oh right the Style one.....I was talkin about the royale one, pretty sure I posted that one in there some place.

w00t

Yay we're all not crazy!

[chosen_one666]

Oh we are. Just in a different way.

I do like Royale, but I can't stand the green Start button. Much prefer it when it matches the rest of the status bar, or whatever it's called.

[demon9k]

I don't know why but I really like that...

Each to their own and all that jive.

Ever since I got this theme I have never had an urg to change it which is always a good sign. Its even integrated into my SP2 Windows CD for auto install

[simoran1]

ok so im gonna give the royale theme ago as i dont really want to be using anything that takes up resources. now ive downloaded it and un compressed it , what do i do with it?? cheers

[SubparMario]

Open the .nfo file in notepad for the instructions

 | |                                                                            | |
 | |  ________________________________________________________________________  | |
 | | |  Install Notes                                                [-][?][?]| | |
 | | |_______________________________________________________________________ | | |
 | | |   .extract to your system drive\windows\resources\themes             |^| | |
 | | |   .double click Royale.msstyles                                      |?| | |
 | | |   .Enjoy the first official new theme for windows xp since its       ||| | |
 | | |   .release                                                           ||| | |
 | | |                                                                      |_| | |
 | | |______________________________________________________________________|v| | |
 | | |                                                                    WB  | | |
 | | |________________________________________________________________________| | |

[mid]

Phew, that's a relief. Goodness knows why, but whenever I've tried doing the trick to enable the use of 3rd-party themes, my PC suffers from occasional problems of the screen flickering black and back again at times, so I'm running with dull old silver.

[Kotatsu Neko]

Royale is kind of nice, but is there any way to change the colour of the start menu background?

[babs]

You can get themes working without stylexp if you don't want the extra bloat, just get a patched uxtheme.dll from somewhere like this.

[mid]

That's what I did before, and it coincided with a bunch of flakiness, so I switched back.