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Windows XP visual styles

Windows XP visual styles are a set of visual customizations of the graphical user interface for Windows XP. They are designed by Microsoft and are compatible with all Windows XP editions except for the Starter edition. Since Windows XP, themes also includes the choice of visual styles as well.[1]

Compared to Desktop Themes in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, the new visual styles of Windows XP have a greater emphasis on the graphical appeal of the operating system, using saturated colors[2] and bitmaps[3] throughout the interface, with rounded corners for windows.[4][5]

By default, "Luna" is preinstalled on Windows XP Home Edition and Professional, while "Royale" is preinstalled on Windows XP Media Center Edition and "Embedded" is preinstalled on Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. In addition to the preinstalled visual styles, Microsoft has released additional ones for download, such as "Zune". Third parties have also released their own visual styles, however these require modification of core Windows components to work, a practice that Microsoft does not officially endorse. "Luna", "Royale", "Zune", and "Embedded" in particular are codenames of the official visual styles made by Microsoft for Windows XP.[6]

There are also some visual styles that were developed by Microsoft as placeholders before unveiling the official visual styles, and are usually used in beta versions of Windows. These include visual styles such as "Watercolor", "Mallard", "Plex", "Slate" and "Jade". "Watercolor" and "Mallard" are included by default in pre-release Windows XP builds prior to the release of Beta 2, while "Plex", "Slate" and "Jade" are included with various builds of Windows Longhorn (the predecessor to Windows Vista during its development) prior to its development reset in 2004.

The visual styles API was substantially expanded in Windows Vista and later. Nevertheless, the API remained heavily under-documented.[7]

  1. ^ "Visual Styles Overview (Windows)". MSDN. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
  2. ^ Kumar, Anil (2010-12-27). Scudder, Rebecca (ed.). "Windows 7 Themes for XP from Deviant Art". Bright Hub. Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  3. ^ Sinchak, Steve (2010-05-21). "Customizing the Appearance of the Windows Interface". Windows 8 Tweaks. John Wiley & Sons. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-118-26459-1.
  4. ^ Mendelson, Edward (2001-10-30). "Interface - The New Windows - Great XPectations". PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  5. ^ Nadeau, David Robert (2010-05-09). "Java tip: SystemColors for Windows XP user interface themes". Nadeau Software Consulting. Archived from the original on 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  6. ^ US patent 7752631, Dorn, Karlheinz; Plendl, Mario; Scharf, Christian; von Stockhausen, Hans-Martin, "Device and method for a graphical user interface", issued 2010-07-06, assigned to Siemens 
  7. ^ "Custom Controls in Win32 API: Visual Styles". 21 July 2013.
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