Windows 10: Windows Classic Look Theme in Windows 10

Hi!

I just came from Will Windows 9 reintroduce the classic theme? - OS Customization, Tips and Tweaks - Neowin Forums and would really like to use the Classic Theme as well.

Anyone?

 

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Thanks to TETYYS.

 

I have already tried it in Windows 10. Just to be clear, I used this method to enable the classic theme regularly in Windows 8. But since upgrading to Windows 10, I haven't used it for one reason. That reason being right-click menus in Windows Explorer don't work well with the classic theme in Windows 10. Here is a picture of this problem (you'll also notice that the taskbar is kind of messed up, but that's not as big a deal to me):




If anyone can find a solution to this, that would be amazing.

 

Hello Butters,

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.
How about posting here? The participants have come up with some interesting solutions.
Please don't forget to update in this thread. *Smile

Best regards.

 

Please vote here.

 

Have you tried with Old New Explorer?

 

Have started another thread here:

Windows 10 Classic Theme - Super User

 

I guess it's with some sense of nostalgia that I want the classic theme back, similar to how I feel when I see MacOS Classic or SGI Irix.

There's also a wave of calm that sweeps over me when I see a UI that doesn't try too hard to fit in. That doesn't try to please the endless hordes of hipsters and gamers whom, while they certainly love to hate on others, wouldn't know how to design something proper themselves even if their lives depended on it.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm all for properly designed flat interfaces, and I'm sure there are a lot of nice ones in Windows 10 -- but the classic theme is an important part of human history, and users should at least be given the option to try it even if it's just for historical / educational purposes, or simply nostalgia.


Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away. KISS principle - Wikipedia

 

Well you'll find a solution to the right-click menu problem in the ThinkPad Forums thread. Credit goes to IBMPad:

[/quote] Now all we need is a fixed taskbar, and the classic theme will work just as well as it did in Windows 8.

 

Regarding How can I make Windows 8 use the classic theme? - Super User -- which of the 3 methods did you guys use?

I tried the first one and it broke my Windows.

Thanks!

 

Really? That's kind of surprising to hear, because that's the method I use, and I've never had it break my Windows. If you're running Windows 10, try renaming it to ClassicThemeA.exe and see how it works.

 

Those old Mac themes were awesome, IMO. I loved the platinum theme from OS8/OS9.

 

You on Home or Pro? I tried it on Home which I've since come to learn lacks a lot of stuff so...

 

Oh, well I'm on Pro, so maybe that has something to do with it. But that's still kind of surprising to me, given how Windows works the same in both versions. What exactly happened that broke your system?

 

bulldows95, did you also disable DWM? Because that does have potential to break Windows, but I can't imagine how ClassicTheme.exe would.