The Secret Windows Theme We Were Never Meant To Have #shorts

Windows XP was an OS full of treasures, and Royale Noir was definitely one of the greatest. #WindowsXP #Windows #DarkMode

[thicco_]

dark mode windows xp looks pretty sick

[my__brain_cells]

"It left most parts of the normal theme intact" so like windows 11

[bucklinspring]

Royale Noir was my favourite XP theme, I ran it for years. Memories!

[RealCaptainPingu]

The Silver, Noir, Royale, & Embedded themes were probably one of my favourites tbh.

[blackice]

I really miss the days when interfaces were this customizable. OS, programs, websites used to have so much personalization. Now everything has the same flat corporate minimalist look. :(

[GrandmaHasDied]

I had Royale Noir on my desktop, and Zune version on my laptop. I even put it on the computers at my high school. It really classes up XP’s default “Fisher Price” look

[AngryApple]

XP was and still is one of the best Windows versions ever

[Sierra]

**I love watching vertical videos with horizontal images padded with blur to fit in those vertical videos, on my laptop with a horizontal screen! It's so nice!!!**

[punkerts]

I use the Zune theme on my XP virtual machine, running on top of my Linux machine.

[Joshtheweatherman]

XP was ahead of it's time! That's why everyone loved it, plus it was polished.

[sirsquirrel]

Window XP + Dark Mode = Pure awesomeness

[ASSK]

Damn this took me way back in time, searching for themes for xp when I was younger.

[rubyviolet]

Windows Vista was such a good aesthetic, that late 2000s futurism needs to make a comeback lol

[Jcvlasmesas]

I used to have the Zune theme installed, awesome looking theme!

[nothingstuffthegooduser]

"for the xp media 2005 and it sort of looked like the original xp theme but on steroids" - my favorite part.

[Ccg]

I loved the royale theme. Used it on my old XP machine.

The windows media center was a unique software. Well ahead of it’s time it just never took off.

[MartieGG]

I miss windows xp being the one everyone uses

[smoothiethepotato]

I like the theme, normally I don’t really like dark mode, but that theme is just something amazing.

[theodoros_]

This brings back memories! These themes were all installed on my XP machine that I had at the time, and they look sick!

[superstar]

It certainly helps that graphic design wasn't so blinding back then