Saturday, October 28, 2006

Royale Noir theme for XP

I've been using the Royale Windows XP theme (the one that comes with XP Media Center Edition) on all my XP (MCE and Pro) machines for a while now. I just found (via Digg) that there's another variation of the Royale theme available -- Royale Noir. In classic Digg fashion, it's sensationalized as a "hidden XP theme." Whatever its history is, it looks cool. I haven't bothered to dig up screenshots to compare, but it looks very much like the black theme that will come with Vista.

You can download the theme here. I just took the RAR version available from multiple links/mirrors from the Digg article, and re-compressed it as ZIP for those of you who don't have PowerArchiver/WinRAR/etc. The installation instructions (which, by the way, are not from me) are included in the zip file.

(By the way -- the background image in my screenshots is my dog Sydney -- and it doesn't come with the theme.)



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