Royale Noir Themes for Windows XP

The Royale Noir and Royale Zune themes are two similar themes by Microsoft that appear to be based on the Energy Blue theme. Both look like darkened versions of Energy Blue. The Zune theme was the first to include a different colour start button other than the green XP one or the original grey one from the Classic theme. As Royale Noir was leaked and was not finalized by Microsoft a few weeks later it was officially released as a new desktop theme to accompany the release of its new Zune media player. Each theme has a slightly different colour scheme. For example, Noir has a black start button and Zune has an orange start button.

The initial release of the Zune theme had a problem with file allocation in its shell theme which resulted in a false colouring in the task pane on the left hand side of Windows Explorer. Royale Noir doesn't suffer from this problem. This issue has apparently been resolved in later distributions of the theme.


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