Royale (not with cheese) - and Energy Blue
In my demos in Belfast and Dublin, I was running Windows XP on my laptop, but I decked XP out with a Theme that made it look a lot like a Media Centre PC.
The theme is called Royale, and our friends at Microsoft New Zealand released it officially a few months back. At one point I downloaded it from Microsoft.com, but I can't find it there now. This is where it used to live.
[Update: Even nicer than Royale (and very similar) is a theme called Energy Blue. It is designed for the Tablet PC, and found in this Tablet PC Experience Pack. The Experience Pack (at that link) only installs onto a Tablet PC. However, I used the instructions on this page to successfully install Energy Blue onto regular Windows XP. Thanks to Marcus Barton for the link!
Meanwhile, the link to Royale.zip on this page, which redirects to microsoft.com, definitely seems broken.]
Comments
- Anonymous
April 12, 2006
Here you go
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP.shtml
Adrian - Anonymous
April 12, 2006
Thanks Adrian! The second (Romanian) download link seems to work. I wonder why it's no longer on the Microsoft download pages. - Anonymous
April 12, 2006
It's now called "Energy Blue" and it's available for example here, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b5ba4f3-c8e1-405f-be61-8a48ba11ca41&DisplayLang=en
Name got changed before MCE2005 went RTM, "Royale" was the name in beta builds. - Anonymous
April 12, 2006
If you want the comfort of downloading it from a microsoft.com url then see this download...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=15373C73-D5F6-4AF0-B583-D633CB021612&displaylang=en
Cheers,
Martin. - Anonymous
April 12, 2006
Martin: Can you find it at that link? I can't... - Anonymous
April 12, 2006
It was at that link earlier as i downloaded it yesterday its strange that it is gone are my eyes decieving me :( - Anonymous
April 13, 2006
No, you are right - it has gone now. But it definately was there.
Even the instructions are still there "For the 'Royale' theme, open the .zip file and extract the file. Then go to your desktop, right click and select 'Properties'. Go to the 'Themes' tab and select 'Royale' from the dropdown list. Choose 'ok'."
I wonder if the files shouldn't have been posted by the NZ team?
Very odd. - Anonymous
April 23, 2006
It's still floating around elsewhere though, including Softpedia.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/Royale-Theme-for-WinXP.shtml