Thursday, July 15, 2010

Put Windows 98 Plus! themes on Windows 7

Do you miss Windows 98?  Well, with this download and a bit of tweaking you can at least put the look of the Plus! themes on your Windows 7 computer.  Download the themes here.  If the link gets broken, the download page with the provided instructions is here.  I'm going to improve them here. 
The download is a .zip file - double click on it to open it.  Right click the Plus! folder and click Copy.  Now open Computer, double click on C: drive, and then double click on Program Files.  Right click somewhere in an empty area of the folder and click Paste.  Now double click on the Plus! folder.  Right click on Themes.exe and click Properties. Click on the Compatibility tab and in Compatibility mode section, check Run this program in compatibility mode.  From the drop down menu, select Windows 98. Click Apply and then OK.

Now double click Themes.exe and from its drop down menu select the theme you want to apply.  You'll find that your wallpaper, cursor, font, etc. all have gone old school.  Blue screens of death originally included with Windows 98 are not included in this download.

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