Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they’re both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.
Honestly, I think Windows 8 Beta’s theme was the best looking (if you ignore the issues with the start screen): pairing Aero with the squared windows actually looked really good.
That they not only removed Aero in the final version but also soccer their lawyers on anyone who tried to bring it back was just incredibly shitty on their part
I used Royale Blue for ages, it was super easy to find the installer for and was signed by M$ so needed no UXTheme patch.
There was also Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Noir is a dark theme (Not to be confused with dark mode) and Zune, which was a different shade of black and sported an orange start button. Lastly there was also Royale Embedded which was a darker shade of blue, and had a blue Start button.
XP, though? Hell yeah. I still miss that theme.
Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they’re both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.
I disabled the UI stuff where it would look like Windows 2000 from XP until it stopped letting me. Different strokes, I guess.
https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma
Put this thing in a VM and then let a scammer remote into it, see what he does.
Honestly, I think Windows 8 Beta’s theme was the best looking (if you ignore the issues with the start screen): pairing Aero with the squared windows actually looked really good.
That they not only removed Aero in the final version but also soccer their lawyers on anyone who tried to bring it back was just incredibly shitty on their part
XP or NT, I’d go back
98 SE.
The Media Center theme was a nice twist on the default XP theme I’ll admit.
I used Royale Blue for ages, it was super easy to find the installer for and was signed by M$ so needed no UXTheme patch.
There was also Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Noir is a dark theme (Not to be confused with dark mode) and Zune, which was a different shade of black and sported an orange start button. Lastly there was also Royale Embedded which was a darker shade of blue, and had a blue Start button.
Windows 95 blew my mind.
Then windows 98 preview also was amazeballs