Visual Styles are a set of graphics, measurements, and other properties which modify the Microsoft Windows user interface. Early versions of Windows, such as Windows 3.1, provided basic options for window customization. Windows XP is the first version of Windows to use a theming engine and graphics for portions of its interface. Visual styles undergo several changes throughout their development, because of this, many variations of them exist.
Due to the inclusion of a desktop compositor, the behaviour and effects of visual styles changed significantly in the Windows "Longhorn" and Windows Vista operating systems.
All Visual Styles
Name | Appears in | Finalized? |
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Windows Classic | Windows 95 to Windows 7 | Yes |
Watercolor | Early builds of Whistler | No |
Experimental Whistler Themes | Whistler 2410-2419 | No |
Luna | Windows XP | Yes |
Royale | Windows XP Media Center Edition | Yes |
Embedded | Windows Embedded 2009 | Yes |
Plex | Longhorn M3-M6 | No |
Slate | Windows Longhorn M7 | No |
Jade | Windows Longhorn M7 | No |
Windows Basic | Windows Vista - Windows 7 | Yes |
Aero | Longhorn M6 - present | Yes |
Aero Lite | Windows 8 - present | Yes |
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