
To choose a theme, just click it in the WindowBlinds window and then click “Apply style to desktop”. WindowBlinds also includes some polished custom Windows themes. It does cost $10, but that $10 will save you a lot of trouble. It’s still fully supported on Windows 10, and doesn’t require hacking with system files. If you want to theme your Windows 10 desktop, we recommend you install Stardock’s WindowBlinds software. And, because this is so hard to do, most user-created themes likely won’t be properly supported on the latest builds of Windows 10.īut there’s still a solution. While you can directly modify the uxtheme.dll file, this change will be reverted whenever Windows 10 updates itself. UxStyle, the tool we recommend for Windows 7, no longer functions on modern versions of Windows 10. You can still do this the old-fashioned way on Windows 7 (see our instructions in the next section for that), but it’s not so easy to do on Windows 10. They modify the appearance of window title bars, buttons, and other visual elements.


These aren’t your standard Windows themes. By default, Windows only loads Microsoft-signed themes-but you can get around this limitation. Windows has had support for themes, also known as “visual styles”, since Windows XP.
