Windows Fallback Classic Theme Evolution (+ Betas)

Lol I love the music too

Interesting how the fallback themes in Longhorn betas had the colors that were meant to blend in and make the fallback theme look more like the normal theme, and that vista scrapped that idea and all we see is the classic taskbar + start menu with no color change.

Did you use "net stop themes" to get the theme on Windows XP-7?

Once I saw the centered taskbar in Codename "Longhorn" build 4015 and now, in 4029

Super

Centered taskbar button

On Windows 8 and newer. There are 2 fallback themes.


First is the Basic theme seen on Windows vista. It was used when :

On Windows PE

When GPU Crashed

When DWM is disabled


The second one is the classic theme. It was used when :

The themes folder is deleted from the Resources folder and DWM Disabled

2009 videos be like:

Your videos are great, but that mainstream background music is awful and I always have to turn down the sound.

Great!

HEY YOU THIS IS THE ANARCHY RAINBOW BY DEEP CUT FOR SPLATOON 3 MUSIC DO YOU LIKE IT NOW

There are more "fallback" themes than this. For example, in Win9x installation, it shows Windows 3.1's GUI in messages/errors and stuff. Things shown in this video are classic themes in the OS. Fallback theme really means a temporary theme that enables when the normal theme isn't working, for example in Windows Vista/7's recovery mode when it shows classic themes. Windows 8/10/11 do not use the classic theme as a fallback theme at all. They use the Windows Vista/7's Aero Basic theme in/when:
• Your graphics driver crashes
• Windows Installation
• Windows PE
• DWM.exe is disabled

What is different from the classic theme in Windows XP and Windows 7

11th lol

8th

Is there any way to normally enable it on windows 10?

What

I actually liked themes like this

1st, also i think this is used in winRE