I've just noticed that all the screenshots feature some rather nice looking black (almost vista-style) borders, rather than the standard bright blue (or the other silver/green options normally available).
Can someone please tell me what utility did this.
Cheers.
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just a black in black XP -style. Johns favourite BTW.
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Unfortunately, I don't think its anything simple. I only get Blue, Olive Green and Silver as options here. I'm pretty sure there is some other XP Theme utility at work.
One reason I ask is that I've seen a number of forum postings (not this forum) slagging many of them off as malicious software or just poor quality products.
It's been covered a few times on here (search for windows theme I think). There is one called Royale Four out there somewhere that comes close to it.
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And it's almost exactly the same with the Black version.
I got it off DeviantArt. Search on there for RoyaleFour.
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There is a "secret" theme called Royale Noir that is a black theme.
More info here:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/
Thanks for the responses. I wasn't too happy about using a hacked DLL though, so I had a further look around and found a Zune theme which looks pretty much the same:
- http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/default.htm
The theme is currently (as of 02-Mar-2007) listed halfway down the page on the right and gives you the black frames from a proper Microsoft installer MSI file (XP SP2 required).
The backdrop is pretty lame, so I'd recommend changing it for:
- http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=403817990&size=o
Cheers,
Dave.
All the 'hack' is is to allow unsigned themes, it doesn't change anything else...
I slipstreamed the modified uxtheme.dll into my Windows installation and have had no issues at all - I really really wouldn't worry about it.