It doesn’t reduce contrast as much as LAB, however, making it a little easier on the eyes. Like LAB, Anthem Two also adds a heavy black bar to the top of all themed windows. It also reduces contrast dramatically across the entire system and reskins most of the UI. LABĪB‘s major visual change is a heavy black bar that runs across the top of every themed window. It also shrinks the window control buttons, which may or may not be to your liking. It flattens the Windows interface as much as possible, relying on subtle variations in grey and white to distinguish different parts of the UI. Simplify 10 is actually a pack of Windows 10 themes, all collected around the same simple aesthetic. Combine it with SillySamPixelArt’s Windows 95 theme pack – which includes sounds and icons – for the best effect. If you’ve been hoping to return to gradient title bars, rectangular buttons and bevelled edges, this theme will take you there. This theme restores as much of the Windows 95 operating system’s aesthetic as it can. For maximum effect, you’ll want to install the Arc icon pack alongside the theme, also from DeviantArt. ArcĪrc includes several variations of its main black and white theme. It also themes the context menu in a lovely dark gray to complete the look. Unlike Penumbra, it’s not completely dark, with light grays sprucing up the interface. Seda is another dark theme from DeviantArt. But once you have it set up, it’s a beautiful, dark theme that makes using your system at night a pleasure. You’ll need to apply the patches above before and manually place the theme’s files in the right folder before you can use the theme. Like the other themes we review in the rest of this list, Penumbra is not made by Microsoft. It’s basically a glorified collection of wallpaper images with some color matching. Taiwan Culture Sketches is the only theme that’s actually from Microsoft that made it onto the list. After that you can get the Classic Shell XP suite for Windows 10 to get that unadulterated XP look. To get an authentic Windows XP look, you first need to get Classic Shell, which provides the necessary customization tools for Windows 10. Doesn’t that blue-and-green taskbar just look so welcoming and bouncy? Let’s get started with possibly the most nostalgic and universally-loved theme in Windows history – Windows XP.
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