Using the color palette of Windows XP, I successfully reproduced all 17 classic themes, which are:Įach theme is just a *.theme file. Luckily, it supports custom colors without patching or third party apps. There is a hidden "Aero Lite" theme in Windows 10 which is used as the base for High Contrast themes. I managed to get something that looks close to the original classic themes. However, let's not go into that territory. The Aero engine, which is the only one available in Windows 10 (and Windows 8), has no support for title bar gradients unless system files are patched. Microsoft has removed support for most color and font metrics and only keeps themes based on visual styles. Windows 10 comes without the classic theme engine. Unfortunately, there is no direct way to get the exact appearance of any of the classic themes, especially the ones which have title bar gradients. They have a special place in my heart as a reminder of the good old times of Windows 2000, which was my favorite operating system for many years. It might also interest you (and others here) to know that the assorted tip feature (starting with "Click here to begin") in the Chicago Beta 1 series of builds (most notably Build 122) was later seperated from the taskbar and reintegrated into the "Welcome to Windows 95" application (having almost certainly been merged with the "Welcome to Windows" box that appears on the first boot after such Chicago Beta 1 series builds as Chicago Build 122 before the shell loads), though even as late as Windows 95 OSR 2.1, you will see a more recent attempt at the "Click here to begin" message with a slightly more modern look whenever the EXPLORER.EXE shell is abruptly executed.Īlso, as far as I know, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and later, or installations of Windows 95 up to OSR 2.1 as well as installations of Windows NT 4.0 up to Service Pack 3 that were installed together with the updated shell from Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher did not have the "Click here to begin" feature at all, since it was not a charactoristic found in the updated web integrated versions of the Windows shell files from what I've seen before.Advertisеment I always liked how classic themes looked. (or was it win98?)Actually, the actual message was "Click here to begin", and was first featured in "Chicago" a few months before the name was changed from Windows 4.0 to Windows 95 in August 1994, with the earliest build publically available to have this minor charactoristic being Build 122 from June 10th, 1994. Remember to add that horrible "Click here to star!" arrow that points to the start button These days everything is just pastel and shiny or glossy, no contrast. Oasiz wrote:Ah, I liked the solid, bright contrasts.
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