Royale XP Theme...
 

Came across this nice free visual theme leaked from Windows XP MCE 2005. Includes installer for regular XP versions.

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/9/3/9-3-42.shtml

Click Here for a screenshot.

EDIT: Link fixed :)

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links dead mate getting error when trying to download :dozey:

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Worked ok here :)

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stupid firewall

*mutters*

:rolleyes:

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Nice one, thanks.

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kewl theme worth downloading even runs on sp2 with no style xp installed :cool:

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erm! What's so exciting about that? :confused:

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Each to their own I guess :p:

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Pass :confused:

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I prefer the minimalist approach personally: http://www.deviantart.com/view/2116649/

or this one: http://www.deviantart.com/view/8833258/ (not tried it, but it looks pretty nice)

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Pritty good theme, I'm gonna keep it on mine, looks better than the standard Windows XP one :D

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Nice theme, wish there was a silver version though. :(

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A theme in my honour.. how kind ;) :p:

Seriously though, I could modify it if you wish?

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You can hack .msstyle DLL's and digitally sign them? (cos they ain't gonna work as a normal native XP theme otherwise) What I'm getting at here is that I (and possibly others, can't speak for anyone else) won't use non-native themes, e.g. windowblind, style XP themes etc.

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All you need is the patched "uxtheme.dll".
None of these theme's would work without that. (in fact I'm not aware of any non-microsoft themes that don't require a patch of some kind)

I would just edit the theme in stylebuilder.. not much to it really.

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Yes, but then it's no longer native, you're altering your OS to add a theme.

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yeah... ?

I wasn't making any claim that it wasn't was I?
I just offered to edit a theme that was itself already a non-standard theme..

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But it's a native XP theme isn't it? Just a leaked one.

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It worked in my system without modification.

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to be honest I thought Richard was commenting on the theme I linked, not the first post.. .. but anyway, I haven't got an unpatched version of XP to test out whether it's native or not.. :p: :D

Maybe, you'd like to be guinea-pig for us then Bifta? ;) :)

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Ah, I thought he was commenting on the original theme, which I've been running since matey posted the link, it is a native theme, and very nice too.

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Fair enough, all the questions answered :D.. I'm off to find a religious thread.. tataa.. :wavey:

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Its a nice theme, I have also been using a "Longhorn" theme which is also very nice. (Available on p2p somewhere)

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Yeah I have a unmodified xp home installation only thing on it really now apart from standard is new direct x and sp2, and it installed and is fully working without any modifications to my system, i wont run style xp or other rubbish like that ( my view ) which hogs memory and tends to cause system problems i found. especially once ur mucking with bootscreens and icons and wanna restore them back it never does it right.


As for the longhorn theme ( or transformation ) on most p2p networks i installed that on my spare pc, it is ok if you get a good installion remove it to go back to xp standard but again we are going back to modfication here, so i steer clear of that.

Anymore of the quality shown with first post here with MCE 2005 theme be wicked.

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I agree on the installing stuff that modifies operating system files, it was a risk i took knowingly just to test its reliability and i found it to be ok.

I have set stylexp so it doesnt load anything apart from the process "Stylexpservice.exe" and that uses at peak 2200KB memory and <1% cpu load (my pc has been on all day and that process has used 0 cpu time) so it isnt a scratch on performance.

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I have to say that is one dead smart theme.

Installed! :D