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Wednesday, May 28. 2008

Rainy Day Classic Windows XP Theme For Vista Users

Since MS was being stupid and didn't include the classic Rainy Day theme in Vista, I've gone ahead and made a theme file based on the XP version and uploaded it. All you have to do, is download it, double click it, and the theme will load in your system. RainyDay-Classic.Theme

[ Update 9/11/2010:  We now have an updated theme and proper page for this here. ]

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Roger BryantThere are three ways to lose money. Gambling is the quickest. Dating can be the most fun. Upgrading to Vista is definitely the surest.....
#1 Roger Bryant (Homepage) on 2008-06-01 09:04
BrielleWould have been nice if they offered us the option of XP or Vista, but alas, Balmer has hit the crackpipe so much that he thinks Vista is on the level of sliced bread.

I tried installing XP on this laptop - no go. It has the lovely Nvidia Nforce 630m and GForce 7150M - both of which are known to not work correctly in XP even if you have the right drivers.
#1.1 Brielle (Homepage) on 2008-06-01 09:26
Roger BryantBoth my parents got new computers with Vista on then. And yours truly gets maintain 'em. I would rather put Windows ME on my computer than defile it with Vista....
#1.1.1 Roger Bryant (Homepage) on 2008-06-01 23:23
VistaThen your screwed wave bye to XP as all available methods to get it except for the pcs that shouldnt exist lose all means of getting or buying XP.

Meanwhile learn how to upgrade and if you think vista sucks...learn to use a pc.
#1.1.1.1 Vista on 2008-07-25 23:10
krukythanks a lot :) i love Rainy Day theme and i'm using it since win 95 :D
#2 kruky on 2008-07-28 18:26
QuadrudosThank you very much. It sure made Vista a lot nicer and A LOT faster to use. Great work!
#3 Quadrudos on 2008-08-09 05:20
RebootThanks for the Rainy day theme, I've been using that theme since 98. I'm happily running my Windows Server 2008 with this theme. You're a life saver!
#4 Reboot on 2008-08-17 04:53
bruceIs the file missing? All I get at the top of the page where the file should be is "Page not found"

Really would like to get this for vista.

Thanks for your effort.
#5 bruce on 2008-10-30 09:06
BrielleIt's fixed now. There was a problem with the site configuration. :)
#5.1 Brielle (Homepage) on 2008-10-30 10:36
LindaThank you so much for the theme, I love it and been using it for a long time.
#6 Linda on 2008-12-07 13:19
MandrakeP.You are just about my hero of the day. I've been using rainy day since win95 and hated not having it.

I hope the karma fairies put a 20 dollar bill in your pocket or something!

Best,

Mandrake P.
#7 MandrakeP. on 2009-05-09 20:55
bruceAre you considering making this theme for Windows 7? Or will this work with Windows 7? Thanks
#8 bruce on 2009-10-13 07:52
KarinWow thank you so much for recreating the rainy day theme. Been missing it for so long. Finally the order has been restored :D

cheers
#9 Karin on 2010-05-04 16:07
EzmyreldaThank you! I was hoping that somebody liked rainy day as much as I did and made a theme based on it!
#10 Ezmyrelda on 2010-12-08 15:53
AndrewThanks for the rainy day theme, just what I was looking for.
#11 Andrew on 2011-01-04 20:31
bruceHi,

I went to your new page and downloaded the Windows 7 theme pack file which only shows as 1.1 kb. When I double click the file to install, Windows says it doesn't recognize the file type. How do I install it? Thanks for your help. Didn't see a place to leave comments on the other page so I'm leaving it here.
#12 bruce on 2011-03-18 21:41
PeterThanks!
#13 Peter on 2011-04-16 18:19
konradThanks also from me.

I only recently found Rainy Day on my XP, but really enjoy the low contrast.

If I wanted to use the colors together with the "classic" window look on Win7, I would have to copy each color for each design element (title bar, etc.) individually, right?
#14 konrad on 2011-10-21 22:55
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