Windows Vista introduced the popular Aero effects which Windows 7 incorporates into it’s new interface. One thing it does not offer though is the ability to use the ‘classic’ theme many of us know and love. Although this theme was introduced in Windows 95, it is still very functional and clean. However, if you would like to use the classic...

The default Windows XP theme is called Luna. This is the rather disgusting blue taskbar, program title bars/borders and the big green Start button. It looks awful. Luna can be changed to either Olive Green (equally disgusting) or Silver (the only which looks good out of the set for Luna). Many people can’t stand Luna and switch to the “Windows...

Ordinarily I am very, very against "skinning" a web browser because it usually makes it perform like absolute crap. Usually what will happen is that some internal menus won’t work and sometimes it even interrupts web site loading. However, when I saw that Personas was actually developed by Mozilla Labs themselves (i.e. the guys and gals who made...

For a while now I’ve been using the Zune Windows XP theme (download). That one is by Microsoft and a complete theme compared to Royale which is incomplete (there are "rough" spots here and there). I like the "Classic" XP theme but it’s a bit too bland. However there is an alternative called HmmXP. It is not by Microsoft and...

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