windows themes

spaceman5

i recently downloaded a nile theme for my windows xp, decided i did not like it, so i deleted it off my pc, except the recycle bin still comes up like a picture of a pharoah, does anybody know how to get rid, i have done a search of the pc, but there is nothing on it that resembles anything to do with this nile theme, thanks in advance dave

-TangleFoot-

Right-click the desktop, select Properties and hit the button labelled 'Customize Desktop' under the Desktop tab. You should be able to restore the default icons from there.

ronben

I like the Zune theme its a Microsoft Theme.

http://www.download.com/Microsoft-Zune-Theme/3000-2420_4-10818187.html

-TangleFoot-

ronben wrote: »

http://www.download.com/Microsoft-Zune-Theme/3000-2420_4-10818187.html

Technically, it's a visual style rather than a theme. Still, it's better looking than Luna! For anyone who's interested, here's more of the same:

Microsoft Visual Styles

• Energy Blue (Wikipedia article)
  • Royale/Media Center style
    
  • Zune

Mac lookalike

• FlyakiteOSX

Useful stuff from the Neowin Forums

• FAQ: WindowBlinds vs. Style XP vs. UXTheme
• FAQ: Using msstyles for Windows XP
• Universal UXTheme Patcher v2.1
• Completed Visual Styles

ronben

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Technically, it's a visual style rather than a theme. Still, it's better looking than Luna!

Click the link it says theme

Click this link http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=zune+desktop+theme&meta= top search entry and even MS classify it as a theme.(will open installer)

ZuneDesktopTheme.msi

-TangleFoot-

ronben wrote: »

it says theme

Traditionally, a full desktop theme - in Windows '98 at least - comprised a colour scheme, sounds, icons, mouse pointers, wallpaper and screensaver. The Zune Desktop Theme is just a visual style and wallpaper. That's barely enough to qualify!

ronben

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Traditionally, a full desktop theme - in Windows '98 at least - comprised a colour scheme, sounds, icons, mouse pointers, wallpaper and screensaver. The Zune Desktop Theme is just a visual style and wallpaper. That's barely enough to qualify!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

You had best tell the developers of every MS OS they got it wrong.

And everyone knows wikipedia is full of misinformation.

-TangleFoot-

ronben wrote: »

...everyone knows wikipedia is full of misinformation.

About as much as the Encyclopedia Britannica, supposedly. By and large, though, the information therein is, for the most part, almost entirely accurate.

Brings to mind something mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Traal is home to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast, and because of its inclusion in the Guide, [the subject of] an infamous court case about the literal interpretation of the entry (it said "beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists" rather than "beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists") and a place where protection can be sought by wrapping a towel around the eyes (but only from the aforementioned beast, which is "so mind-[bogglingly] stupid it believes that if you can't see it, it can't see you".

-TangleFoot-

Do you absolutely have to have the last word?