As with previous versions of Windows Microsoft prevents users from using third-party visual styles with the visual style engine included in Windows 7. This is enforced by requiring each visual style to be digitally signed by Microsoft, without the signature the visual style will not be loaded. The trick to use third-party visual styles is to remove the digital signature requirement. In the past there have been a lot of tools to do this but for Windows 7 there is only one right now called UxStyle.
I can see a lot of people picking this one out of this list as their preferred theme. The pure black base and luminescent blue makes it perfect for almost anybody looking for a flashy theme. You may want to change the fonts to make it look even better.
A designer theme with pleasing subtle colours. Both modes, Light and Dark, are available. This theme supports gradient colour schemes for various desktop elements, something not found in a lot of themes. The colour combinations and their saturation settings also very carefully done; very mild in nature. You also have three types of Windows Explorer outlines — borderless, bordered or rounded. Two caption button styles are also included. Another beautiful dark theme. Before Windows released their own Dark Mode theme, it was regarded by many as the best dark theme available for Windows Papyros is one of the earliest themes for Windows 10 but is still updated and it completely compatible with the current version of Windows.
The one thing about Windows Vista that was admired by almost everyone was the Aero Glass. Third Party Visual Styles There are plenty of premium and free visual style generator programs that can help you skin the Windows. The program like WindowBlinds help you generate your own Skin for the window decoration and Shell. WindowBlinds is a paid program and you can only apply those custom visual styles if that program is installed on your system. There are few other similar programs like Talisman Desktop and Deskspace that has the same functionality.
Though you can't expect much quicker support and quality designs from open source and free community due to development and support cycle being slower.
If you're serious about theming your desktop then it is better to go premium with tools like WindowBlinds. You don't have to stick with the default Visual styles that Windows offers.
Changing themes and visual styles is very easy once you patch the Windows with system file patcher. If you choose one of the programs listed in the article then you'll be able to skin the Windows the way you want.
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