Royale Windows XP theme
When Microsoft was designing the Royale theme for Windows XP Media Center, they were testing a Black theme which was scrapped for the blue one.
I’ve found the original black theme. You can download it by clicking here.
Instructions on Installing this theme:
- Download msroyale.zip file by clicking here.
- Unzip the file, Copy the Royale folder and paste into your themes folder
(e.g. c:\windows\resources\themes) - Double click the luna.msstyles to start the installation of the theme.
Screen Shots:

Tom C said,
January 8, 2007 @ 12:11 am
Very nice find! Using this right now, much better than default!
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Suchy said,
January 15, 2007 @ 3:53 pm
Nice Theme !
Instaled it on all computers at work.
Much better looking then the default windows xp one.
jack hornsby said,
January 16, 2007 @ 6:53 am
I must say, I like it very much.
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nitin said,
January 22, 2007 @ 1:44 am
window o/s bestever in univerce
i like black
Fred said,
January 22, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
Very nice, its great
thank you!
Jordan said,
January 28, 2007 @ 7:16 pm
Yes very nice indeed…..MS did a good job ! I like both themes equally
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Chad said,
February 11, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
Wow, Very nice! I love the noir one more then the blue though.
The blue looks too much like default blue.
Nice though.
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Richard said,
March 3, 2007 @ 8:03 pm
Great looking black browser thank you. I like the rounded look of it. I also like a lot of other people got tired of the ever unpopular windows xp blue line. Thanks once again.