Windows XP Zune Theme

I was never that of a theme fanatic and used the windows classic setting on all of my previous computers because I thought it would speed up my system. I feel a little bit old fashioned to defend this stance against my friends who love to use themes for their windows operating system. It is not anymore a question of speeding up the system, with dual core cpus and gigabytes of ram available for most computers that are sold these days.

I did find a great theme pretty quickly which does look better than the Windows Vista Basic Theme if you ask me. The only thing that I had to change was the wallpaper image which did not look that great. I would like to begin by explaining a common error that I received while trying to enable a theme other than the windows classic theme. The error was “The theme could not be loaded because the theme service is not running”. I hit Windows + R, entered services.msc and hit enter again. The theme service was not started and i set it to automatically start at Windows startup and started it as well immediately.

The problem was that the message was still there when I tried to activate another theme. I decided to try a reboot which fixed the problem. I could activate other themes without problems.

If you do not know how to activate themes do the following:

• Right-Click the desktop and select properties
• Select the Themes Tab
• All of your themes are located in the Theme pulldown menu
• To activate a theme select it and click Apply

The Zune theme for Windows XP can be downloaded from this official link.

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Tags: microsoft-windows, windows xp theme, xp customize, zune theme
Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

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4 Responses to “Windows XP Zune Theme”

1. netking says:

   May 5, 2007 at 10:22 pm

   Post title : Windows XP Zune Theme

   and at the end of the post : The Zune theme for Windows Vista can be downloaded from this official link.

   Is it for Vista or XP ?

   Reply
2. Martin says:

   May 5, 2007 at 10:28 pm

   upsa. It is for Windows XP. Changing it right now..

   Reply

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