
"It's been awhile since I've done one of these but this is certainly a
pivotal year in skinning. The term 'skinning' has really expanded in what it means. Today, skinning is loosely used to describe customizing in general. From phones, to PDAs, to computer cases, skinning has become an all purpose term. But for our purposes, we're going to stick with customizing the user experience of personal computers (primarily PC and Macintosh). This article will give a head's up on where I think, in my highly biased way, things stand and where I think they're going."
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2005-11-13
1. Go to Services and disable Themes.

2. Right click on desktop, go to Properties.
3. Select 'Windows Classic' from the Themes dropdown.
4. And you're done! Win32 Classic - best UI ever, and doesn't strain the system resources either
Unfortunately, I don't know how MS managed to screw it up, but the Classic theme looks like ass in Vista