![]() You’ll notice you’ll have the 3D classic buttons and context menus, but with the themed titlebar. You can see this become applied partially for some programs by going to your Envirionment Variables, adding a new entry with a variable called _COMPAT_FLAGS and changing its value to DISABLETHEMES (for either your user or the system) and open a program like VLC. ![]() The Classic Theme is technically still there in some cases, like when using the SAM Lock Tool, syskey during startup. There’s a lot of places saying how it’s been ‘removed’ and that apparently having a flat high contrast is the only solution (well, it’s the ONLY stable solution, not a bad alternative to be fair, you don’t risk messing up your system and you don’t need anything else for it), although it actually hasn’t been completely removed. Also, clicking those back/forward buttons don't have that 'pressed' effect like in Windows 7. This is on Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 with a few modifications. Look, that arrow pointing up! The Classic Theme still exists in Windows 8.1 and 10! No high contrast coverups here. But since Windows 8, it is a dependancy for a lot modern-related apps. The DWM basically utilitises the graphics card to ‘draw’ windows on to your display, and in anything past Windows 7, disabling graphics card drivers won’t revert your system to a Windows Basic theme (although it technically still exists) and whatever windows you’ll have open will be rendered by software, or your processor. Unfortunately, for some people who prefer having blocky 3D buttons and menus, this has officially been gone since Windows 8 as the Desktop Window Manager is no longer a service that can be disabled and the modern UI programs are dependant upon it. The Classic Theme, as we know it, seems to be an aesthetically iconic user interface considering you can make a modern system running Windows look like it’s back from 1995! It just looks so simple, right? Simple shapes and buttons that have a 3D block-like effect placed on a plain gray background which happened to be seen in a lot of places, like online videos, actual use in workplaces and industries, public displays exposing the UI and it still is partially featured in today’s versions of Windows. Scroll near the bottom to find the fix that may work or use CTRL/COMMAND + F and search for I got a black screen after installing ClassicTheme.exe. Read everything here first before doing any of the things mentioned. Try it in a virtual machine if you want and see for yourself if you’re really suspicious of how this behaves. This is for those who desperately want to try this out or those who want to fix this without reinstalling, this is the same way I’ve figured it out and I thought others would’ve as well but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Nobody has seemed to write up a guide of how to fix this in the event it actually does blank or black out your screen (most likely due to the antivirus software deleting the ClassicTheme executable while it configured itself to run upon user login). Anything performed here is done for experimental purposes and I do not recommend this for the typical user. It was featured in Windows XP and is no longer an available feature after Windows 7. The following is a series of text, explaning the tools I encountered upon to be able to run the Classic Theme in latest versions of Windows (8.1/10) despite Microsoft removing the Windows Classic Theme that took place in Windows 8. The method I use for manually removing this is also in this post. I decided to write this to reduce the tediousness it took for myself to browse through multiple forums and desperately lurk through search results for new answers and pointlessly watching newly encountered videos that provide pretty much zero critical explanation of any consequences that are incurred and not providing a huge disclaimer that the ClassicTheme.exe utility has the potential to bug out. Windows 8.1 should be able to work fine as is. Quick note: This is out-of-date and was only relevant for previous versions of Windows 10 (1607, 1703).
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