Windows Media Center Edition Theme is free if ya didn't know

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:04 pm

I'm not big on the bubbly Windows XP look, but the Media Center edition theme is a free download from Microsoft. Basically a slicker Luna theme look called Royale.

Link: Media Center Edition Theme

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:57 am

I d/l'ed this a few months ago and I love it. Best thing to do, IMO, is to set the size of titlebar text to 9pt (stole the idea from IBM's default configuration of the Luna theme on Thinkpads). No more titlebars taking up 10% of a window's screen space.

Cuda68 · Post by **Cuda68** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:08 am

I was always fond of Fluxbox myself.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:54 am

DCrazy wrote:I d/l'ed this a few months ago and I love it. Best thing to do, IMO, is to set the size of titlebar text to 9pt (stole the idea from IBM's default configuration of the Luna theme on Thinkpads). No more titlebars taking up 10% of a window's screen space.

Nice, that looks better !

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:20 pm

Wow, Royale plus the smaller title bar text makes it look pretty nice. Good finds.

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:26 am

Wow, thanks. I really like this a lot better than XP's default theme.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:31 am

I'll stick to my CoolXP2 black theme.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:23 am

where did you grab that one from Krom??

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:47 am

Got it off a site called stylexp a while ago, can't find the link to it anymore though. It also requires a patched uxtheme.dll to work, but there are some programs out there that can patch it automatically, just google for uxtheme.dll patch.

As for the styles, since I can't find the original link I'll just put em on sploitz:
CoolXP2
CoolXP3

Neo · Post by **Neo** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:33 am

Hey, that link just takes me to some New Zealand wallpaper page. =( Can somebody help me find the MCE theme?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:34 pm

Neo, scroll down. See Royale.zip? That contains the theme's installer.

Interestingly enough, I just downloaded this on another computer, and was shocked to see that MS has released a Genuine Windows plugin for Mozilla-based browsers. MS usually isn't one to recognize the existence of other browsers... perhaps they're warming up to the competition?

/dreams of MS bundling FF with Windows...

Windows Media Center Edition Theme is free if ya didn't know

Windows Media Center Edition Theme is free if ya didn't know

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