Windows is a beautiful system. Nowadays, it doesn’t follow its old visual styles, but back then, the looks of Windows Vista and 7 were very great. This was a thread I have been planning to do since I created my failed Physical Media thread. It’s the same formula as that thread. I will count betas cuz, why not? They have unique styles!
Whistler: This might be a fan favorite. The Watercolor theme was a beta to the Luna theme in XP. In my opinion, it looked better. There were little squares on the top bar, and a cute blue theme that you can switch to Olive, Silver, and Dark Blue.
Windows XP: The basics of the Windows Visual Theme. It sported a blue color with 3D Shading, and a cute bliss background (that not only became a meme, but was also on Whistler). It was just very great. You could switch between Olive and Silver too.
Longhorn: Basically Luna, but with the experiment of Aero. We’ve got Jade and Luna and I forgot the third one. It just looked awesome!
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition/Media Center Edition: Here’s where things start getting interesting. This is my personal favorite. I even mimicked the theme on Windows 10! It’s Luna but looks like Aero! And with a better Bliss background than Luna.
Windows Vista: This might be the best theme ever. A nice combination of Green, Blue, and Yellow, So many ribbon logos, great taskbar, great darkness, great use of Aero, best use of colors, I like everything about this visual theme! This is what started my Windows YT channel! So why I don’t hate Vista? I actually grew up with it! Maybe it was a new PC at the time. I tried to do it on VM and it works! There’s no lag or BSODs! So why hate it?
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009: I don’t get it. A version of Windows XP on 2009? Weird, right? Anyways, this Visual Theme is great too! It’s the Royale theme but darker. This operating system was made for life support, and many people like it!
Windows 7: The same as Vista, but focuses more on the color blue. With beautiful glass textures, and some beautiful use of blue. The theme is not as good as Vista’s, but it also defined my childhood.
Windows 8.x: Nothing to say here, just Windows 7’s theme but modernized. Overall, the Visual Style is decent
Windows 10: This is kinda boring. Only two themes, Light and Dark. You can’t change the Visual Style. (At least not without paying not to Microsoft) Fortunately, there’s Classic Shell, which is a great program to edit your taskbar, and start menu. I put my theme to Royale, and I am keeping it.
So, which one will you choose? And this time, not only is it very recommended to say why, but I have disabled multiple choices
EDIT: Removed a piece of Engrish
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