
The result is an aesthetic black skin named “Royale Noir”, it even works with Office 2003. W3bbo writes,ĭuring Royale‘s development (the XP Media Center theme), the graphic artists also produced a black version of the skin, sans the overused “glass” effect. After some dedicated searching, he finally uncovered this mystery Windows XP theme by Microsoft. One theme to rule them all.ĭevoted Channel9 member W3bbo spotted an interesting theme on one of the “ people_ready” television commercials airing in the Kingdoms. Now, a young hobbit man by the name of W3bbo saw light of this unheard of theme, and traveled far and wide to uncover its mysteries. It was believed to be too powerful for public consumption and forever archived in the servers at 1 Microsoft Way. Sometime after the launch of XP, somewhere in Redmond, someone on the Microsoft design team was in the progress of developing something for Media Center. Check out his DeviantArt profile and gallery to get more nice themes and stuff for Windows 10.If you don’t fancy the back story, skip directly to download. At the moment of this writing, it works as expected under Windows 10 build 10240.Īll credits go to WIN7TBAR, who is the author of this theme. If you plan to upgrade Windows 10 RTM build to later Insider builds, it is better don't use any third-party theme.

The theme is claimed to be compatible with Windows 10 x86 and Windows 10 圆4 however with Windows 10 following the new continuous updating model, this theme can break on future Windows 10 builds. After that, you can get something like this: To get transparency and rounded borders, you will have to follow this guide. The author of this theme recommends using the AeroGlass mod for Windows 10 to have a more genuine look. The Taskbar is not skinned to become glassy like Windows 7 because Microsoft disabled that ability in the RTM build of Windows 10.

It involves installing UxStyle so you can use unsigned, third party themes.Īfter you have done that, follow these steps: Read the following article carefully: How to install and apply third party themes in Windows 10. It brings the appearance of Windows 7 back to Windows 10.įirst, you need to unlock third party themes support in Windows 10 because Microsoft has locked it down so only digitally signed themes can be used. There is an option to get an almost authentic Windows 7 look in Windows 10.
