Microsoft Zune Theme for Windows XP 1.0

3.9 out of 5 stars 3.9 (84 votes)

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Windows XP / Freeware / 309,696 downloads

This is a special Windows XP Theme from Microsoft designed to look like its new Zune portable media player. This is an official skin for Windows XP that has a dark grey style and orange Start menu.

Reviews of Microsoft Zune Theme for Windows XP

  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    virtualsmart

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 20, 2011)

    The fact is you only have a skin.
    Why don't check out crystalxp.net and download a complete brickopak.
    And change even the color of your folders the way you want.
    Or get a complete Windows 7 look.And dockbar as well.

    You name it!

    For the fact day tried a 3 star.

  2. 4 out of 5 stars
    austin00

    Reviewing 1.0 (Aug 17, 2011)

    It has a dark grey style and orange start menu. It's pretty cool.

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    linjinhuan

    Reviewing 1.0 (May 23, 2011)

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  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    trents

    Reviewing 1.0 (Dec 2, 2010)

    Hi,
    This is nice and cool to know about this new Microsoft Zune Theme for Windows XP.I like to know it and excited to used it...

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    JERRYSRANCH

    Reviewing 1.0 (Aug 8, 2010)

    This will excellent and refreshing for you Desktop! It will bring WOW comments from friends and family because it look very professional. Although you will have to readjust your desktop sounds, and mouse pointers if you use you own; but Zune Theme is worth the changes! Try it!

  6. 5 out of 5 stars
    GLovesMe

    Reviewing 1.0 (Apr 8, 2010)

    Finally, someone at Microsoft is earning their keep and making cool stuff rather than churning out the same old junk.

    This theme is so much nicer than the standard Windows themes that came with XP. Installed without a hitch. Matches my Aquatint Firefox theme perfectly..

  7. 4 out of 5 stars
    patmc7

    Reviewing 1.0 (Oct 24, 2009)

    Makes a nice Halloween theme.

  8. 4 out of 5 stars
    liljoe

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 1, 2008)

    This could look better if they used the win vista orb-get it at http://lee-soft.com/viorb/index.html

  9. 4 out of 5 stars
    photonboy

    Reviewing 1.0 (Oct 22, 2007)

    Update:
    This theme is growing on me.

    A lot of applications are starting to change their colours with more blacks (Lightroom, ACDSee etc) and that blends nicely with this.

    Another plus is the icons tend to stand out nicely against the black. The Task Bar looks great.

    Orange. If I could change this to green I would. Not a huge deal though.

    There are "conversion" packs and themes requiring programs to install but there are risks with those. There's no risk with this theme. It's as safe as any default theme.

    The "Royale" theme is easily Googled if you have XP or XP Pro and is superior to the XP Theme. It's the same theme as MCE 2005 which is much nicer on the eyes than the ugly bright blue XP theme.

    Office 2007:
    Leave on the default blue. Silver and Black suck.

  10. 2 out of 5 stars
    betabet

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 9, 2006)

    Quite a nice theme once you get rid of the desktop. Have discovered it has upset some of the icons in my menu-bar i.e. they disappeared and it has been quite a job to get them back and keep them back!!!!! My original rating was 4 but that has now decreased to 2.

  11. 4 out of 5 stars
    Ayush

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 5, 2006)

    There is a error with the common tasks pane. It is not changed according to the theme

  12. 5 out of 5 stars
    sparkf1

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 4, 2006)

    A very nice theme from microsoft! I hope more officially themes will be released.

  13. 3 out of 5 stars
    whatevrnvrmind

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Looks like Coachella to me.

  14. 5 out of 5 stars
    computershack

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Very nice. I loved the colourscheme on Vista.

  15. 5 out of 5 stars
    GoodThings2Life

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    It's sooooooooo pretty!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D

    Actually, this is the first time I've ever felt comfortable enabling the Themes service. The first thing I usually do is disable it and switch to classic view.

    This, however, is simply gorgeous... the orange is MUCH better than the in-your-face green one, but I wonder... by installing this I may not have the glass transparency of Vista, but I do get the shiny black... what is there left to Vista? *grin*

    Hmm, I guess you either like green or you like orange, lol... the theme is like Vista gone Halloween, so if you don't like Black and Orange, then you should probably avoid it.

  16. 5 out of 5 stars
    elftyrrell

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Awesome! Cleveland Browns colors.

  17. 3 out of 5 stars
    MellonCollie

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    The orange start button is too bright, too distracting.

  18. 4 out of 5 stars
    HurricaneGame

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Got a better screen of this theme?

  19. 2 out of 5 stars
    googun

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    It's not a very exciting theme :-(

    If you like Windows in black and grey then it's a great theme, but to me it looks unattractive and I couldn't live with it for many minutes.

  20. 1 out of 5 stars
    hugh750

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    I was not impressed with the zune theme, Avoid it!

  21. 4 out of 5 stars
    NyNe

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    the theme seems a bit large to me like the window borders and all take up lots of space, it's definitely better than luna but i've been using vistaxp by kol for some time now and it's grown on me

  22. 4 out of 5 stars
    ballyhairs

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Small and nice

  23. 4 out of 5 stars
    chinch

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    nice skin.. good free alternative to the very limited default set. buuut.. can you say "halloween"? black+orange color scheme

  24. 5 out of 5 stars
    Macross74

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    I like it a lot, i have tried a lot of mods for a darker toolbar, now i have one, the orange start bar is a little annoying, but you over come that pretty quick

  25. 4 out of 5 stars
    markus10018

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Better than the original Royale.

    Microsoft borked the installer though. The shellstyle is not installed correctly.

  26. 4 out of 5 stars
    sarrik

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    A very nice theme, and nice to see one that needs no paid products installed. Maybe that's more common now since I gave up on themes long ago and just settled for the silver one that comes standard.
    One gripe is the orange start button. I'd rather blue or green, but that's my problem.
    More important, however, is the fact that it reset all of my sounds and mouse pointers to default and set up it's hideous wallpaper as well. That seems a tad silly to me, as most XP systems are old enough for the user to have those things set the way the user wants them, even if they're looking for new visual effects. I think if you didn't add anything to a certain scheme, why force a change?
    Sure it's only a few minutes of tooling around and setting them back to where you like them, but hey, it's annoying.
    So I'd recommend you try this out to see if you like it, but save your sound and mouse pointer schemes first.

    Also changes screen saver back to default. PITA.
    Tempted to drop a point for all the useless resetting of things that weren't actually changed or modified.

  27. 5 out of 5 stars
    carstereos

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Great theme, no problem installing

  28. 3 out of 5 stars
    juanker

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    It's a shame it does NOT work with XP 64-bit though.

  29. 5 out of 5 stars
    stevetures

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Decent Royale-style theme:

    Screenshot from another site.
    http://blog.carbonscorin...ts/zune-style_theme.jpg

    This theme (Royale Noir) is making some noise in response too:
    http://www.istartedsomet...80/20061029/royale-noir/

  30. 5 out of 5 stars
    MichaelDHam

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 3, 2006)

    Great New Look for XP ! I love it! Installed with no hitch and all is working well here. Kudos to Microsoft!

  31. 4 out of 5 stars
    Jordanr05

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    Looks pretty nice. It's a re-coloured Royale theme but it fits in with the dark Vista look. I wish MS would release more themes like this - or better yet give the user the ability to change the colours.

    I did notice some weird glitches with the taskbar when playing around with sizes for the close/minimize buttons. It would make my quick launch icons look distorted and make the taskbar itself taller. Weird.

  32. 5 out of 5 stars
    kazoom

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    Looks nice without having to patch anything.
    Its a nice change and theme

  33. 5 out of 5 stars
    pwned32

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    looks great and works fine.. did not affect firefox

  34. 5 out of 5 stars
    dejavu

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    Good! No problem Here!

  35. 4 out of 5 stars
    xrayspex

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    Corbit..it didnt do anything to my FF 2.0. You have some other problem that caused that.

    I like it..the orange start button gets a lil getting used to but over all its a really nice theme.

  36. 2 out of 5 stars
    Corbit

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    It broke the .dll entry point for (get ready) Firefox 2.0. I actually had to reinstall the program. Yes, I'm sure. You're all class, Bill. Looks good, though, and integrated with everything else, so far.

  37. 3 out of 5 stars
    The MAZZTer

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    It's just Luna in a black/orange color scheme... third parties have already painted Luna every color under the sun...

    I recommend a uxtheme patch and then browsing some of the delightful third-party made themes that DON'T look like Luna.

  38. 5 out of 5 stars
    net_junkie

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    Highly recommended. Integrates perfectly.

  39. 5 out of 5 stars
    eternalblue

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    Love it. The desktop image is pretty stupid, but obviously that's easy to change.

  40. 5 out of 5 stars
    peterj1978

    Reviewing 1.0 (Nov 2, 2006)

    I like it, i just love the black and orange coloring they use but the backgroundpicture was nothing for me.

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