Four New Windows 7 Themes Released By Microsoft

Martin Brinkmann
Dec 25, 2009
Updated • Feb 6, 2017
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Microsoft has released four new themes for their operating system Windows 7. Some users who have not made the switch yet may wonder how it can be that Microsoft seems to be pumping out themes for the Windows 7 operating system but released less than a handful for Windows Vista and XP combined,

Two aspects play a role. There is the new and improved theme engine in Windows 7 that makes it much easier to create and share themes.

Anyone can create new themes on devices running Windows 7, as a new theme is automatically created when a user changes the wallpaper of the system. It is possible to add additional wallpapers to the theme and change colors, sounds and other elements.

The second reason for this seems to be a change in strategy. Microsoft seems to have realized that these things make a lot of users happy. That in turn is good for Microsoft as it changes the perception of the company's operating system and company.

It needs to be noted that we are talking about lite themes here. They cannot be compared to full conversion themes that modify things such as the taskbar, start menu and icons of the operating system. Those still require that you patch system files before they can be applied.

The four new themes have been released at the Personalization website over at Microsoft. All themes can be downloaded from that website free of charge. Themes can be installed on the operating system with a simple double-click on the downloaded file.

The themes as you can see consist of a dog, cat, summit and Christmas theme.

Update: Microsoft in the meantime has been very busy and uploaded dozens of themes to the official personalization gallery for the operating system. Windows 7 users can download and install those themes with a single click, and while they make only basic changes to the operating system, they often do contain nice wallpaper images that you'd like to beautify your desktop with.

Update 2: Microsoft has changed the themes site for Windows 7 in the meantime. The starting page lists links to themes, wallpapers, languages and the personalization gallery now.

A click on themes lists the available lightweight themes for Windows that you can download. Those are further divided into categories such as art, movies, natural wonders or with custom sound.

All themes are free to download, and should work on all versions of Windows starting with Windows 7.

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Four New Windows 7 Themes Released By Microsoft
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Four New Windows 7 Themes Released By Microsoft
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Microsoft has just released four new themes for its Windows operating system. The review looks at the new themes, and how to download them.
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  1. libeco said on December 25, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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    Personally I would rather see a change in the complete system where you can change the color of the basic theme. I need to enable aero just to change the color, which is just weird. Or even better, create a XP-style!

  2. AdvancedNoob said on December 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm
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    thx 4 the upd8…

  3. sandra Jackson said on December 25, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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    All themes are very nice and beautiful.i like mostly first one.its different and look something new.

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