Do You Use Microsoft Themes on Windows 7?

Yep, for the wallpapers!

No, I rely completely on my collegues,  The WinCustomize Community 

Never used them....;)

Never saw them before...but I'd use the walls.

Yes I do then, make my own themes with them, I have 33 off theme now

Sometimes only wallpapers. For a quick change only and then usually go back to backgrounds made by people here.

I don't think the Themes are equal to what WindowBlinds can do but sometimes you run across wallpapers that make you pause and take in the scene.  Majority of my wallpapers are from WC but some are from other places. 

I use the walls and sounds from them. (Angry Birds is my favorite) WindowBlinds does the rest.

There are a couple of them that say RSS. If you plug them in and use them a while (hour) you get about 100 choices for wallpaper. One says "BING" on everything, the other not. Move them from the appsdata directory they are downloaded to and you have wonderful choices. I sort them into directories to use with the rotating wallpaper feature of DesktopX  DeskScapes (or use the built-in one for Win 7)

I've downloaded them for the wallpapers. In fact, I'm using one of the wallpapers now because it looks awesome with what I'm working on.

No. Don't use them. Do like the walls tho.

Sorry, but in my opinion these are not themes, they are merely Aero recolored. A true theme is something that is built from the ground up, not merely a recolor with different wallpapers.

One of the first articles I did was how extract the walls from them with zip-7... 

But I can't seem to download them without their applying themselves....so I don't bother.. Too much hassle.

Go to the MS themes page.  Link

R-click on the Dowload link and select Save target as.

Use 7zip and extract the themepack, get the folder called DesktopBackground.

Have a nice day.

Thanks to Doc for the 7-zip tip.

"Right click -> save link as" is too much work, ay?

Trade your PC in for an etch-a-skecth...

Why use 7zip?

Rename the downloaded file to .zip (unless it's a .theme file - not an archive) and open with Windows Exploder.
Much easier.

Just for the wall papers

Use 7-zip otherwise, opening the downloaded folder will install the theme, which you might not be interested in having.

http://drjbhl.joeuser.com/article/403446/Part_II_How_To_Extract_a_Wallpaper_From_A_Windows_7_Themepack

7 zip relates to the .theme as a zip, while renaming doesn't work... the file becomes inaccessible/unopenable.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but if I can do it, so can anyone else.

But hey... What do I care.

It works with iZarc. Just saying.

Island Dog i have one word for you "vikitech" ,you want walls there's more there than you have hdd space ,to get at the walls as they're in some kind of .exe that loads the theme just use a zip extraction program,it's the same as tooth extraction without anesthetic but less painful ,i use the walls on my comp as well as on my original xbox,modded of coarse happy hunting

http://www.vikitech.com/windows-7-themes

edit: once link is clicked stay on the page there's a few themes that are in slide show mode,obviously they look even better coupled with a blind

I've downloaded some purely for the wallpapers, but the rest is irrelevant with Stardock software in use

I use them quite abit for the wallpapers, they are pretty much the only ones i use these days, other than Deskscapes animated ones.  But yes, they dont do much for the UI skinning thing, window blinds is so much better at that. 

I have found that some of the themes do include sound theme packs too, which are cool.  Wish there was more sounds available for people to make sound schemes with.  Hey now thats an idea ! how about a gallery on wincustomize of just sounds files we can download and make our own sound schemes with sound packager.

cheers

GigaByte69