NEW Official Windows theme!! "Energy Blue" c/o MCE - Usable on normal XP!!

[Matt Blair]

Note:
This was originally for XP Tablet Edition. . .but, the Bink news site discovered you can just extract the files and insert them into ANY version of XP (Home, Pro, etc -- remember, it's the stock Media Center theme, so if you have Media Center, don't bother!!). It makes XP seem brand new again! It makes the start button and taskbar more "shiny", adding more depth--along with everything else in XP.

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Bink.nu News Article(just for reference)

Download from Microsoft

Use winrar or any other archiving program to extract the .exe.

Then, pull the files out of the "update" folder, and place them into the base folder. Therefore, ALL of the files are in the SAME folder (and not in a subdirectory).

Then, copy and paste that group of files (from inside that folder) to WINDOWS/Resources/Themes.

Then, right click the desktop. . ."properties". . ."Themes", and click your BRAND NEW "Energy Blue" theme!!!

Hint: Looks GREAT with "cleartype" on. Go to desktop properties, "Appearance" and click the "Effects" button. "cleartype" is one of the options on the drop-down menus.



::EDIT::
Yeesh. . .internet kept dropping connection for some reason and I kept having to press "post this message". Made about 6 topics with the same name and had to go delete all the extras. . .hahaha.