![]() Not much is known about its purpose, however it was likely meant as a way to test the theming engine that was first available in build 2250. Candy seems to be an imitation of the Aqua theme found in earlier versions of Mac OS X ( 10.0 to 10.6). According to the date found within the metadata of the files in the theme, it was made between builds 22. The skin was released in Experience Pack for Tablet PC and was available for free, but the installer only installed it on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition devices, for which it was licensed.Ĭandy is an unannounced and unreleased theme which was found in the leaked source code of Windows XP in September 2020. Microsoft did also release a Windows Media Player visualization and skin at one time. ![]() Because of the freeware nature of this package, it had also been available on software download websites, such as Softpedia at one time. On April 7, 2005, Microsoft New Zealand had made the Royale theme and the wallpapers for the New Zealand theme available for download for all editions of XP through Windows Genuine Advantage on its website but no longer exists in 2019. ![]() Royale was originally made available in December 2004. It presents a relucent, vivid and faux-reflective color scheme with intense blue and green colors. It is accompanied by a new wallpaper (inspired by Windows XP Bliss). Royale (also known as Energy Blue and Media Center style) was originally designed for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and was ported to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. The style was removed from Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, however, it still exists internally for backward compatibility purposes. Other schemes appeared in previous versions of Windows. A slightly darker variant of the Standard scheme, called "Windows Classic", was the default color scheme of Windows 98 (albeit with a dark blue desktop background instead of green, much like the pre-release versions of Windows 2000) and appeared on Windows Vista but not Windows 7. "Windows Standard" was the default color scheme of Windows 2000 and Windows Me and later appeared on Windows Vista and Windows 7, although in the latter it was renamed "Windows Classic". Windows XP includes 22 preset color schemes for the classic style, with four of them being optimized for the visually impaired. It is less CPU-intensive and offers better performance, due to which it is also used by default on Windows Server 2003 through 2008 R2.Ĭompared to other visual styles, it supports greater color and font customization options. Classic style widgets are also used for applications that are not theming-aware even though theming is enabled. It is used when the theme service is disabled and in certain other scenarios, such as Win32 console windows or booting the system in Safe mode. Officially titled "Windows Classic style", this is the built-in look and feel of Windows that was used in previous versions of Windows prior to Windows XP. Nevertheless, the API remained heavily underdocumented. The visual styles API was substantially expanded in Windows Vista and later. Visual styles are compatible with all Windows XP editions except Starter Edition.Ĭompared to Desktop Themes in previous versions of Windows such as Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, the new visual styles have a greater emphasis on the graphical appeal of the operating system, using saturated colors and bitmaps throughout the interface, with rounded corners for windows. Third parties have also released visual styles, though these require modification of core Windows components to work. There were also some placeholder visual styles that Microsoft had used in beta versions of Windows before unveiling the official visual styles, such as "Watercolor" and "Mallard". In addition to the preinstalled visual styles, Microsoft has released additional ones for download. ![]() By default, "Luna" is preinstalled on Windows XP Home and Professional editions, "Royale" is preinstalled on Windows XP Media Center Edition and "Embedded" is preinstalled on Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. Since Windows XP, themes include the choice of visual styles as well. "Luna", "Royale", "Zune", and "Embedded" are codenames of the official visual styles designed for Windows XP by Microsoft. Windows XP visual styles are customizations of the graphical user interface of Windows XP. Customizations of the user interface of Windows XP ![]()
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