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Force Windows 2003 to look like XP

by Steve Wiseman on August 3, 2007 · 1 comment

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Like I was saying yesterday I now have a Windows 2003 server as a simple router for friends and family at my cabin up north. The trouble is, I don’t really need to have more than one computer up there. There is no reason why I can’t surf and check my email on this server – it is not like I am going to ruin anything if the server dies.

So on that note, I wanted to make my server look and feel like Windows XP – particularly with the XP Theme

Windows XP Start Menu

It was easier than I thought. Simply open the service manager (You can do this by clicking on start, then run, and type services.msc…now click OK). Scroll down to the service called “Themes”

Windows Themes Service

Double click on it. Change the service startup type to “Automatic”, and start the service.

Now you can go into the display settings of the control panel and turn on the standard windows XP theme.

Windows XP Theme

Now my Windows 2003 server looks and feels a lot more like Windows XP.

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1 Ankith M.Jain May 23, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Its really nice to see back xp , on my 2003 server os.

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