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Offline Fragil1ty

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Windows themes.
« on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 14:42:43 »
So I'm not sure if you're like me, but I like to have a nice looking Windows. I have to look at it everyday, so why not right? But I also like to maintain a degree of minimalism, hence why the current theme I'm using on Windows 8 is the default one, I've just made it perfect in terms of colour and what not.

On Windows 7 I used to use the Windows 7 - Basic theme, I used this theme religiously! But on Windows 8, it's not here but .. it secretly is. As shown in the screenshot below. Does anyone know if there is a way to uncover this theme as it currently is still in the O/S it's just not accessible through Personalization options.

So yeah, does anyone have any more information on this? I'd highly appreciate it, if so.

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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 21 July 2014, 15:33:37 »
First hit on Google for "Windows 8 basic theme". This sounds like what  you need.

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-hidden-aero-lite-theme-in-windows-8-rtm/
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 22 July 2014, 10:35:27 »
I use aero lite on 8.x as I too like the opaque taskbar much better. I've never seen that old ****ty vista style though so I'm not sure what's going on there.
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 22 July 2014, 10:39:26 »
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 22 July 2014, 14:55:04 »
Sounds like Hush might be right up your alley.
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 22 July 2014, 16:58:02 »
Minimal you say

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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 22 July 2014, 19:35:22 »
Hotdog Stand or GTFO
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 22 July 2014, 19:45:52 »
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Re: Windows themes.
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 23 July 2014, 02:13:25 »
too many colors... i can't handle
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 24 July 2014, 13:54:16 »
Quote from: noisyturtle on Tue, 22 July 2014, 19:35:22
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Re: Windows themes.
« Reply #12 on: Sat, 26 July 2014, 01:37:18 »
Quote from: Smasher816 on Mon, 21 July 2014, 15:33:37
First hit on Google for "Windows 8 basic theme". This sounds like what  you need.

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-hidden-aero-lite-theme-in-windows-8-rtm/


Not the theme I'm looking for, I'm looking for the one that is located in Windows 7, thank you for your kind search though, it's much obliged.

Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Tue, 22 July 2014, 10:35:27
I use aero lite on 8.x as I too like the opaque taskbar much better. I've never seen that old ****ty vista style though so I'm not sure what's going on there.

I have in-fact started to use it myself, the opaque has never been an issue for me due to the fact that I use 'startisback' and that can disable a lot of the crappy features that Windows 8 uses, but oh well.
« Last Edit: Sat, 26 July 2014, 01:39:11 by Fragil1ty »
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