Royal Noir Theme Windows XP

Just a hint:
The version you offer is not really finished.
Instead try the officiel Zune Theme by Microsoft or this Royale Remixed Pack.
Therein you find Royale, Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Working without uxtheme.dll Patch.
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Royale-Remixed-Theme-fuer-Windows-XP_22527696.html

Martin you are wrong here. Most internet users were fooled by this news too. Actually this Noir isn’t any official Windows theme. Do you honestly think MS will send out such an unfinished work out?
In reality some one took the XP Luna theme and modded it with Photoshop to produce this crap theme. You should make the correct changes to let people know the truth. If you google properly you will find one hack which tells you how to turn Luna into Noir. MS denied Noir was there product.
And since it is the original theme modded, you don’ thave to hack the uxtheme.dll.
Now say thankyou!

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Looks the same as the MS Zune theme.

If you are looking for a perfect black Vista style without installing anything this is the best hands down. He also has a few great Luna themes.

http://vishal-gupta.deviantart.com/art/VistaVG-Black-for-Windows-XP-64306875

i was wondering as well, this Royale Noir is just a unfinished old themes two years ago.

@gm The difference is the fact that the Zune theme promotes more of a black/orange variant, while this particular version is a dark blue.

@dF uxtheme.dll is only for unsigned themes. Official Microsoft signed themes do not require it.

For those looking at a lighter version: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP.shtml

I didn’t have much time to locate an official link, so softpedia will have to do.

That replacer tool whiped out my complete system (msvcrt.dll error) Had to reinstall.

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“dF says:

Just a hint:
The version you offer is not really finished.
Instead try the officiel Zune Theme by Microsoft or this Royale Remixed Pack.
Therein you find Royale, Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Working without uxtheme.dll Patch.
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Royale-Remixed-Theme-fuer-Windows-XP_22527696.html”

I used both Yahoo! Babel Fish and Google Translate to get this combined translation of the chip.de article’s text:

“With the “Royale Remixed theme for Windows XP, your desktop looks chic and elegantly/nobly made. The theme officially developed by Microsoft for Windows Media Center “Royale Remixed”, formerly known as “Royale Noir”, presents Windows and Office 2003 in a chic black-and-blue tone. Also included in the download is the Royale theme, a blue version of the theme. Royale Zune is available from the same designer as a separate download. (Etc.)”

Also, I examined the enlarged screenshot of the Start menu that appears in a separate window after clicking on the small “Dialogfeld”/”OK” shot, and directly compared it to my own computer’s after installing the Royal Noir theme as Martin instructed, and they are indistinguishable from each other, appearance-wise. Also, aside from the English/German difference in the Display Properties screenshot in this article, compared to the one on the chip.de article page, they also appear identical. So, I’d say if one is unfinished, so is the other one - and all without patching the uxtheme.dll file…

omg i love the royal noir skin thingy ty

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One word = PIE.