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. (more…)