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Windows XP Zune theme

by Ryan Carter on November 3, 2006 at 07:09 PM

The new Windows XP Zune theme is here, and it is hot. You might mentally compare this theme to Royale Noir, it does look a bit like it, but it's not. This theme is of course to commemorate the launch of Microsoft's alleged iPod-killer in a few weeks. Whether or not you like the Zune, this theme is cool for XP regardless, sporting a black-ish slate color and an orange start button. The background is pretty cool too. Any guesses as to where these folks are in the desktop background picture? What are they doing, and who is on stage? Of course, I think it is Ballmer doing to the can-can in a tuxedo. I could be wrong.

Thanks Joe and khuffie for the tip!

Tags: freeware, microsoft, osupdates, windows, xp, zune

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BrentNov 3rd 2006 7:24PM

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Coachella Music Festival. Realized it off the back with those white tents (beer garden), and nothing around them other than the Coachella Valley palm tree's.

Currently have that set as my theme... with one of Autoblog's Michelin's SEMA display hi-res pic for the wallpaper.

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KaosNov 3rd 2006 9:14PM

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+1 Coachella

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Peter KirnNov 3rd 2006 10:41PM

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Okay, I've been staring at this and Royale Noir, and it really *is* Royale Noir with different highlights / browner shade of black. (And, in turn, Royale, in that garish blue.) And nothing matches the black color on Windows Media Player 11. These conflicting shades of *black* are driving me a bit batty.

But yes, otherwise, a nice theme, and earned a place alongside my favorites from Deviant Art. This one is good when your eyes are tired and you need giant widgets. (Seriously.) But as for the faux-hipster Coachella photo ... erm ... it'll be cool in like ten years when everyone has forgotten about the Zune. ;)

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kNov 4th 2006 1:16AM

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Just so everyone knows... this theme does not install correctly. If you notice the theme is a mix of the zune and classic theme. The shell style is not installed correctly. To fix this go to c:windows:resources:themes:zune and create a new folder called "Shell" and inside the shell folder create another folder called "NormalColor" move the shellstyle.dll from the zune folder into the normalcolor folder and reapply the theme. Now the tasks list in the shell will be themed correctly, as well as other areas.

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ScottNov 5th 2006 8:24AM

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OO-GLEE

(Remember the movie "Enemy Mine"?)

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DavidNov 4th 2006 10:06AM

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does anyone know the name of the app that's running on top of the windows screen? kind of like os x's "quickbar"??

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infoghostNov 4th 2006 8:56AM

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My guess, Object Dock.

http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/

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vishalNov 4th 2006 10:09AM

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One thing to note here is Firefox running on windows
:)

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Ryan CarterNov 4th 2006 10:13AM

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The app running is Punk Software's RocketDock. It is one of the best apps I've seen and it's free. here is the link to it:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/20/rocketdock-a-mac-dock-clone-for-windows/

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Chad L.Nov 4th 2006 10:02PM

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Great theme, I'll be keeping this one in the rotation.

However, does anyone else think that this would have been nice to have before Halloween? I mean, given the colors and all. :P

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johnNov 7th 2006 11:43PM

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the theme has a bug. the options that appear in the left hand column when you open any window such as my computer or my documents doesn't have the theme applied to it.
here are the instructions to fix it.
http://www.skattertech.com/2006/11/windows-xp-zune-theme/

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