Simple BLACK xp theme Wanted:

Ice Rich · 30 Jun 2007 at 09:03

Hi all,

Does anyones know of a simple xp theme that is mostly black?

Been looking for ages, most have weird fade munes etc budled with them.

Any help appricatied

Thanks

afraser2k · 30 Jun 2007 at 09:12

Royale Noir. Excellent theme and I use it myself.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17645816&highlight=royale+noir

riddlermarc · 30 Jun 2007 at 10:10

^^ That's what I use on my work laptop, looks lovely and is way nicer than the standard blue, green or grey ones!

Dano · 30 Jun 2007 at 10:12

The Zune theme is also pretty good.

Ice Rich · 30 Jun 2007 at 12:37

Thanks for replys, using that royal noir theme now - its great, much better.

Would be perfect if it was totally black though rather then black/gray.

Inoshishi · 30 Jun 2007 at 12:40

I use the Zune one here.

lokkers · 30 Jun 2007 at 12:58

I've been using the Graphite theme for a while - it's basically the standard XP them but in black/graphite.

skanky · 30 Jun 2007 at 13:59

i like the zune theme.

Theguy · 30 Jun 2007 at 14:04

do you mind posting a screenshot of the 'zune' theme please?

allllec · 30 Jun 2007 at 14:26

Theguy said:
do you mind posting a screenshot of the 'zune' theme please?

second that - and a download link for it - does it need uxtheme mod thing ? (i forget the name)

using royal theme myself, its quite nice just a little bit crappy acount the start menu button? o well very pretty never the less

BurningHorizons · 30 Jun 2007 at 14:33

go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078

allllec · 30 Jun 2007 at 14:37

sweeeeeet. ta

topgun06 · 30 Jun 2007 at 15:09

afraser2k said:
Royale Noir. Excellent theme and I use it myself.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17645816&highlight=royale+noir

Just got that, looks very nice

Now my Firefox skin looks odd... and nice black skins for Firefox? Ill have a look myself.

marc2003 · 30 Jun 2007 at 15:24

might not be dark enough - it's only the taskbar/title bars that are black but try area04.2 :cool:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45532008/

you'll need to have patched your uxtheme.dll to use this.

jaric · 30 Jun 2007 at 16:13

topgun06 said:
Just got that, looks very nice

Now my Firefox skin looks odd... and nice black skins for Firefox? Ill have a look myself.

BlackJapanMAX is a nice black theme for Firefox.

allllec · 30 Jun 2007 at 16:27

marc2003 said:
might not be dark enough - it's only the taskbar/title bars that are black but try area04.2

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45532008/

you'll need to have patched your uxtheme.dll to use this.

see now i like that a lot - so much so icant go back to zune but the text is just fugly and the strippey backround to windows is a little too much :-(

marc2003 · 30 Jun 2007 at 16:48

^^go to the appearance tab and change the font size.

allllec · 30 Jun 2007 at 16:51

Makes it bearable but foobars the start menu and besides that issue the stripes are too much for me. but thanks for the headups

Theguy · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:17

Thank you for the Zune link, its very much like the noir theme, but with orange! heh. i am using this now

SideWinder · 30 Jun 2007 at 20:45

Using the Zune, trying it out...how do i change the size of the text in the bar at the top of IE? Where it displays 'Overclockers UK Forums' ?