Select Change desktop icons from the left sidebar: Select Sounds from the bottom options & select the Windows Default scheme. Select Change mouse pointers from the left sidebar & select the Windows Aero (system scheme) If however you find that the cursors or the sound scheme is too noobish then you can choose the default schemes from the respective control panels:Ĭontrol Panel –> Appearance and Personalization –> Personalization will bring this screen:

UPDATE: Free beer for Madata© for creating install packages for the rest of the themes! Mirror links: Baseball, Jungle, Mystery, Travel

To install just double click on the file. Here are 4 ready made packages & resources for all 16 themes that were bundled with Windows 98. So I thought why not bring back those good ‘ol themes of Windows 98 on 7. After a long time Microsoft allows us to package Sounds, Icons, Wallpapers & Colors with ease & share them around. Life’s much simple now, Vista made it so, Windows 7 takes it further, which brings me to themes in Windows 7.

Anyhoo … I got it done & listening to the welcome sound of Windows 98 brought back old memories, rebooting after installing every driver reminded me of what all we used to do back in the days. It wasn’t exactly as easy as I thought, creating a bootable CD of Windows 98 on Windows 7 on a machine with no floppy drive was pretty geeky. After making your Vista into Windows 7 & XP into Vista, I had a little moment of nostalgia when I decided to install Windows 98 on Windows 7 via Virtual PC.

Windows xp theme for windows 98