Many people send me emails how to install visual styles so I decided to write instruction for all of you. Visual styles can be installed only in WindowsXP!

First step

If you haven’t done already, download and apply Uxtheme Multi-patcher. Please, be careful and read all instructions of installer. If you can’t download from that site, try with to find it on Google.

Second step

Find and download visual style you like. Visual style is in 99% situations packed in .zip or .rar format. You can extract files with WindowsXP extraction tool or with WinZip or WinRAR. So, after download is finished, you need to unzip files from archive to your Windows/Resources/Themes folder. Important step is to create new folder with name of visual style and extract there archive. Then your new visual style can be selected through Control Panel>Display Properties>Appearance tab.

So, we will go step by step. Go here and download Cadoo Visual Style for example.

Step 1

Go to Windows/Resources/Themes and create there Cadoo folder (because main style file in archive is named Cadoo.msstyles).

Step 1 - Installing custom themes on Windows XP

Step 2

Extract in Cadoo folder all files from archive.

Step 2 - Installing custom themes on Windows XP

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Step 3

If you done all correctly you will have in Control Panel>Display Properties>Appearance tab under Windows and buttons drop list, new theme called Cadoo.

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That’s it. Congratulations! Now you’re ready to browse Visual styles category and spice your desktop!