Windows 95 Theme for Windows 10
Requirements:
- Windows 10
- Classic Shell (for that old-school start menu experience)
- A few minutes
Setup
Theme
This will give you the wallpaper, icons and colour scheme.
- Download/clone
- Copy the
Icons
folder to your %USERPROFILE% folder - Put the wallpaper from
Wallpaper
into your %USERPROFILE% folder - Open the theme from
Theme
and install it using the Windows theme manager - You should now have Windows 95 colours, an original Windows 95-inspired wallpaper and Windows 95-inspired icons on your desktop!
Sounds
This will give you the original Windows 95 sounds.
- Copy the
Sounds
folder to your %USERPROFILE% folder - Install
Sounds\Sounds.reg
(or update your Windows sounds manually) - You'll now get the original Windows 95 sounds!
(Credit for these wav files goes to http://winsounds.com/windows-95-sounds/)
Classic Shell
This will update Classic Shell with a Windows 95-inspired start button and configure the start menu to look and feel like Windows 95.
- Install Classic Shell from http://classicshell.net
- Import the settings from
Classic Shell\Menu Settings.xml
- Enjoy.
Notes
With the exception of the wav
files, everything here is new. The icons, wallpaper and all other settings are homage to Windows 95.