If you have been using Windows since Windows 95 or Windows 98, you might remember Microsoft Plus! and the wonderful extra themes which were available as part of the Plus! pack. Today, you can get those themes in modern Windows versions like Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7. You can get genuine wallpapers, cursors, sounds, icons - everything except screensavers from those themes.
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Various versions of the Plus! pack were released for different versions of Windows 9x. The first version was released for Windows 95. Besides themes and wallpapers, it included the Space Cadet Pinball game, an Internet Jumpstart Kit with IE 1.0, and DriveSpace 3 and Compression Agent software. It also brought some extended shell features.Later, Windows 98 included all of the enhancements included in Plus! for Windows 95. Its own extension pack came with eighteen desktop themes and nice screensavers and a bunch of software including free games and promotional versions of paid software. However, the themes included in the Plus! packs were always were colorful and entertaining.
The themes from Plus! which you can download below have been converted into the modern Windows themepack format. They work great on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. They were created using genuine resources from the appropriate Plus! packs.
All of the themes include sounds, cursors, background images, icons, and even color schemes. Double click the *.themepack files that you wish to install or all of them. You can switch between the themes from Personalization Control Panel:
Although the desktop backgrounds have a low-resolution, they can be stretched to fit the screen. They have been processed so they scale to fit on modern displays.
Download Plus! themes for Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7
Also, you might want to get the classic appearance color schemes from Windows XP back in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.
Here is how it looks:
You can find all of the color schemes like Spruce, Rainy Day and Brick here:
That's it.
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This guide is part of the Windows Desktop Theme Customization Series. If you want to learn how to install Themes in your version of Windows or want to locate some new themes, head here. If you’d like to keep up with this series and other articles from this site, subscribe here.
Here is a collection of themes compatible with Windows XP. Learn how to install theme here. Many themes only work on a specific operating system, architeture, and service pack. i.e. Vista SP2 x86. Please read the instructions for each theme very carefully.
Chromes for XP
Incolore Composizione XP
openSUSE Final
NeoGeniX
Royal Inspirat special Edition
Royale Vista II Final
SlanXP 2.0
SlanXP
SlanXP Edition 3
New XP LiveBlack
Curve visual style
Smooth Alternative :VS
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Clearlooks 0.6 Black
Luna Element 5.0.5
Concave VS
Islander VS
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Haru the Suite
Windows 7 Update
SevenXP 3.0
TangoBL
Ashen II
Thallos VS
areao4.2
Tiger 2 VS
Pristine OS 1.2
Crystal.Systema Suite
Visty V2.0a
SevenVG Black Mod 1
Shiftie Striped Update
Milk 2.0
Greenius.VS for GAIA 1.1
XPMC RC3
Black Mesa
Hydrangea Visual Style
GAIA VS
EX2008 Visual Style
Dream LH 1.0
VistaPerfection X4 Msstyles
Leopard X
OSX Tiger V visual style
animus
Cadoo Visual Style 1.0
Clearlooks Gummy – Colors
DUO
Delta VS
Windows 8 Themes For Xp
Kupo XP 2.0
Ubuntu XP
Aurum VS 1.1
Watercolor Arrow
This guide is part of the Windows Desktop Theme Customization Series. If you want to learn how to install Themes in your version of Windows or want to locate some new themes, head here. If you’d like to keep up with this series and other articles from this site, subscribe here.
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