I'm sure this was some interior decorator's idea of a good idea. Example: Try to change the color of the button faces in WIN98 and you've ALSO changed dozens of other colors. PLUS you could change ONE thing without effecting the colors of virtually everything else. Remember way back when Windows 3.1 was "state of the Art"? back then there was an icon in the control panel called "colors" and it allowed one to set anything on the desktop to any color one wanted. I'm a whining cry-baby who should be deliriously happy that the IMPORTANT things in Windows 98 work and stop whining about the way the desktop looks. All but a couple of them worked fine this way.Yes, I know.
I've always applied the older themes with XP's and Vista's normal Theme drop downs. Milos M., you mean you run the 9x Themes.exe in Vista?!? That thing works? Heck, I never even copy that over because I've thought it was useless. Kind of like WindowBlinds on 98, but without the resource drag. I get that Beryl transparency and effects with a Windows 98 look. It's just as interesting to apply the Redmond themes on KDE in Linux. I don't run them for long, as they are kind of boring compared to new stuff like Aero Glass. You don't need to apply Windows Classic first as Vista will do that automatically. When applying the themes, you can just run them like any Vista theme.
Then I can activate the Wildlife screensaver and bam! There's that silly old Underwater screensaver. I got the Kid's Plus! Demo package and I just extract the 2 Underwater files and the 2 Wildlife files to the System32 folder. The Underwater screensaver can work, but not with those files. All those folders include all the stuff from XP, Windows Me, and 98. Just about all the stuff looks like an original 98 install, but in Vista! I also copy the Windows/Media and the Web/Wallpaper folder over, as well as the few Plus!98 cartoon screensavers that work in XP and Vista.
It was really something to see my Original Desktop Theme that I use to make before changing anything in 98. I do the same, being copying the Plus! Themes folder and the Lose Your Marbles game to XP, and now Vista. Yeah, I have fun with looking back that way.
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