20 Awesome Windows XP Themes

After presenting 20 Best Themes for Windows XP, we now showcase 20 Awesome Windows XP Themes which will change the look and feel of your Desktop completely.

Some themes bring in Windows 7, some give a Tiger Mac OS X or a Mint experience. Some others completely transform Windows XP with a different look and feel.

If you are new to installing a Visual Style/Theme on Windows XP, check our article How to install 3rd party visual Style/Theme in Windows XP?

1. Concave VS

This Visual Style comes in 3 variations: Concave Dark , Concave Light and Concave Compound. It contains compact and full start menus. Top shell style, styler toolbar skins and wallpapers are also included.

2. Ashen II

This Windows XP theme pack contains visual style, foobar config, miranda, winamp, launchy, samurize config & styler toolbar. Fonts – Calibri 8, Lucida Grande 7 and Arial 8 are also included.

3. Longhorn Inspirat

Inspired by Longhorn Mac OSX, this theme comes in 3 styles. Y’z Toolbar is included in the Pack.

4. Crystal Systema Suite

This beautiful theme set for Windows XP comes in black, red, and blue color variations. This design combines the flavors of Linux, Vista and Mac operating systems.

5. Thallos VS

This ‘tema para XP’ comes with two start buttons and three fonts: Arial, Tahoma and Verdana.

6. Auriel Visual Style

This amazing theme comes in 3 colors – Blue, Green and Pink and 2 sub styles – Smooth and Opaque.

7. Watercolor Emico

This dark theme for Windows XP comes in Black and a less darker Washed Black versions. It has green color sliders and progress bars.

8. Peppered 3.0.1

This Chocolate colored XP theme comes packed with a visual style, wallpapers, styler toolbar, miranda and 2 substyles.

9. OSX Tiger V

Want to get the Mac experience on your Windows XP? Try this theme which comes with 7 different styles (Tiger, Pinstripe, Smooth Metal + bonus Milk Glass… plus graphite alternatives), and 3 Lucida grande fonts – 8, Bold 8 and Bold 7. It also includes Pixel Perfect Finder, OSX cursors, Tiger wallpaper,
Icemans OSX Sounds, and ObjectDock theme package.

10. Mint 2.0 Visual Style

This Linux based theme includes a Mint skin for Winamp and 3 font options – HaxrCorp+Corbel, Verdana, Tahoma.

11. GuiStyle VS

This bright and colorful Theme comes in 6 Color variations and  3 Fonts:Tahoma, Arial and Segoe UI.

12. Kontrazt VS

Kontrazt comes in 7 color schemes -  Green, Blue, Red, Brown, Yellow, Pink, and Dark.

13. Striped VS

This Visual Style has stylish striped taskbar and titlebars and comes in Green, Blue, and Pink colors.

14. Aurum VS 1.1

If you are a fan of the Aura effects, you will love this theme which comes with a beautiful Abstract wallpaper, a task button with glow effects, normal and compact start menu and 3 font sizes.

15. Delta VS

This slick and stylish theme comes with 2 start buttons, 3 shell styles, full & compact start menus, and 3 font variations.

16. Digital

This futuristic theme comes packed with a visual style, desktop icons, shutdown/logoff dialogs, shellstyle, cursors, system sounds/fonts, a desktop wallpaper and a .theme file.

17. ChromeX2.0

Do you like Google Chrome’s sleek interface? You can now bring the Chrome looks to your computer! ChromeX2.0 transforms your Windows XP into a Chrome OS!

18. Windows 7 Ultimate RTM

Eagerly waiting for Windows 7 to hit the stores? Whether you are planning to buy this latest OS from Microsoft or not, you can get it’s look and feel on your Windows XP PC right away with this Windows 7 theme. The theme package comes in 4 different styles – Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Glass Ultimate, Windows 7 Black Ultimate, and Windows 7 Ultimate RTM. You can experience Windows 7 Superbar and it’s newly designed Log Off and Shut Down buttons.

19. CarboniX

Yet another stylish theme this one comes with a unique taskbar and titlebar design. The theme pack includes Styler toolbar skin, and Nature wallpapers.

20. W. Strata Concept v2

This beautiful XP theme comes with a Windows 7 sidebar, bright colored taskbar and titlebars and will definitely bring some color to your PC.

Enjoy!