Windows 98 Plus! Themes For Windows 7
moment of nostalgia when I decided to install Windows 98 on Windows 7
via Virtual PC. It wasn’t exactly as easy as I thought, creating a bootable
CD of Windows 98 on Windows 7 on a machine with no floppy drive was
pretty geeky. Anyhoo … I got it done & listening to the welcome sound of
Windows 98 brought back old memories, rebooting after installing every
driver reminded me of what all we used to do back in the days. Life’s much
simple now, Vista made it so, Windows 7 takes it further, which brings me
to themes in Windows 7. After a long time Microsoft allows us to package
Sounds, Icons, Wallpapers & Colors with ease & share them around. So I
thought why not bring back those good ‘ol themes of Windows 98 on 7.
Here are 4 ready made packages & resources for all 16 themes that were
bundled with Windows 98.
The themes contain:
- Wallpaper
- Mouse pointers
- Desktop icons
- Sounds
- Color scheme
To install just double click on the file. The 4 packaged themes:
Click on the theme to download.
Download resources for all 16 themes:
If however you find that the cursors or the sound scheme is too noobish
then you can choose the default schemes from the respective control panels:
Control Panel –> Appearance and Personalization –> Personalization will bring this screen:
then you can choose the default schemes from the respective control panels:
Control Panel –> Appearance and Personalization –> Personalization will bring this screen:
For Cursor:Select Change mouse pointers from the left sidebar & select theWindows Aero (system scheme)
For Sound:Select Sounds from the bottom options & select the Windows Default
scheme.
Select Change desktop icons from the left sidebar:
NOTE: You can also disable the themes changing your Icons & Cursors by un-checking the “Allow themes to change …” in both windows as highlighted.
