Windows XP Suite (WIP)
Luna, Silver & Olive Styles for Windows 7,8 & 10
Monday, May 25, 2020 by SimplexDesigns | Discussion: Skinning
Got enough done to show of a re-creation of the Windows XP theme for modern day systems, some XP elements had to be remade from scratch as they were way to small dpi wise and looked super blurry. Luna style is 100%, I am currently working on remaking the Silver and Olive elements(Might make other colors depending on feedback). Hope you like what I have done so far. Ps. I plan on modernizing it to more of 10's style as an alternate theme later on. 
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Reply #22 Sunday, June 28, 2020 8:54 AM
Yeah I wish I could do that, but there are no settings for me to set it up like that. In Skin Studio, I have those sections wiped so that it defaults to the sp_button bitmaps in the windowblinds style.
yeah, I've never attempted to do it myself. I assume if you skin the win7/10 arrow section, it will override the xp parts and want you to skin the shutdown section as well. Would be cool to combine the 2.
I could use the arrow button you shown for the more options button, but idk if I can have a custom sized button there. I will have to tinker with that later this week. I just finished the Metallic Style. So I just need to tweak the Olive and all the base styles will be done.
Reply #23 Sunday, June 28, 2020 8:57 AM
Here's a fun thing that not everyone knows:
Add the line ArrowColour= and the number of a color to the code section of the start panel left side, and the arrow will change to that color on mouseover. It's handy when your normal text color is black and mouseover is white.
Make sure you spell it colour, not color or it won't work (Is that Neil's fault?)
Reply #24 Sunday, June 28, 2020 9:06 AM
I will have to keep that in mind for the Blue/Olive styles. Thanks for the tip!
I also was testing out an old Xp menubar design. It works ok, but not sure what other programs will have it on all toolbars.
Reply #25 Wednesday, July 1, 2020 3:55 AM
All 3 Basic styles are done. Working on Royale now.
Reply #26 Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:12 AM
That olive substyle looks great. it was my fave substyle back in the day. nice job!
Reply #27 Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:20 AM
That olive substyle looks great. it was my fave substyle back in the day. nice job!
Thanks! Royal is also now in, however because of the way the startmenu works, the jumplist on windows7/8 are not useable. Thats just a minor issue I dont plan on fixing as these are mainly designed for 10 
The taskbar text is supposed to be white, but when you enable light mode on windows 10 2004 version, it breaks the theming of those buttons. Hopefully stardock responds to my issue in the windowblinds support section.
This is what I normally looks like when you have dark mode enabled. Bottom pic is when I have light mode on.
Reply #28 Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:51 AM
Found a work around to my jumplist issue for some of the themes that use white text on right side of start menu.
Reply #29 Friday, July 3, 2020 4:43 AM
Looking great! Can't wait to see Watercolor and Zune XP working aswell.
Keeping a very VERY close eye on this theme
Reply #30 Sunday, July 5, 2020 7:46 AM
Looking great! Can't wait to see Watercolor and Zune XP working aswell.
Keeping a very VERY close eye on this theme
Watercolor style added. In testing phase now before its ready to upload. Dont mind the double control panels in my start menu It seems to be a bug in Start10 for 2004 build of Windows 10... haha
Reply #31 Sunday, July 5, 2020 7:47 AM
That Whistler Watercolor theme would be grand with a blue taskbar
Might look into that now that I have it built.
Reply #32 Sunday, July 5, 2020 2:20 PM
Now i just gotta look for a fresh WinXP iconpackage to go along with it.
HD Wallpapers and whatnot i already have, guess im all set for when it hits. Nice work!
Reply #33 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 3:03 AM
Now i just gotta look for a fresh WinXP iconpackage to go along with it.
HD Wallpapers and whatnot i already have, guess im all set for when it hits. Nice work!
I have published the theme. Should show up under windowblinds section eventually.
Reply #34 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:54 PM
Greeat! Lets hope they verify it soon-ish.
There are some skins that received updates that i've seen thousands of master skins release before it got updated, and that was a month ago (and i still think the skin isn't updated)
Reply #35 Thursday, July 9, 2020 6:41 AM
hope that the font is not to big on this answer
Great Screenshots. Hope its published soon here 'cause using windowblinds on win10 is very frustrating since there is no real xp' ish theme.
Reply #36 Thursday, July 9, 2020 8:27 AM
hope that the font is not to big on this answer
Great Screenshots. Hope its published soon here 'cause using windowblinds on win10 is very frustrating since there is no real xp' ish theme.
Waiting on them to verify it. I will post link when it eventually goes live.
Reply #37 Thursday, July 9, 2020 10:16 AM
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Reply #21 Sunday, June 28, 2020 8:42 AM
Yeah I wish I could do that, but there are no settings for me to set it up like that. In Skin Studio, I have those sections wiped so that it defaults to the sp_button bitmaps in the windowblinds style.