A deviation from my previous works, this style is based on a palette void of colors.
A combination of Black, White & Grey tones, thintaskbars & thin captionbars. Designed for everyday use.
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*Rest of previews & Wallpapers links (credits to the authors) here



Glossy & Smooth versions;
NiteXP = dark captionbars + dark taskbar
NiteLiteXP = light captionbars + dark taskbar
LiteXP = light captionbars + light taskbar
Font choices: (Included-please install first)
1. a) Calibri+Calibri Caps, b) Arial +Arial Caps, c) Tahoma
2. a) Swis721 Cn BT D-Type + Corbel, b) HaxrCorp 4088 + HaxrCorp 4088 Caps, c) Segoe UI
Animated caption buttons
Funky new full & compact startmenu's
includes matching gehrunnerjunge skin.



UPDATE: MODPACK included!
-Release of NiteLiteXP Modpack-
Includes 5x3 (15) new VS mods + extra resources for your own customization.

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Is there a way to get this for Vista?

I believe if you use Windowblinds & Skinstudio by Stardock you can import .msstyles from XP. But I hear it generally does a muck job. You might want to try it out though.

This should be listed as a mod of Nion 2 by lassekongo83. Look at the Start button.... and pretty much everything else.

Looks nice.

No offense to lasse, but I don't think he invented dark caption bars & taskbars, & the square winflag has been around since Hmm XP which is at least 4 years old.
How about trying it out & looking a little deeper before offering such a critical opinion. By the way everything is 100 percent from scratch, a trained eye will see the differences are obvious.

I tried this VS out for a bit and didn't think it was based off of Nion at all, and I am a HUGE lassekongo fan. If you would look through all of the various minimal visual styles on devinatART and Customize, you will find dozens of visual styles that are similar to each other that come from the same lines of thought: milky, simple black and white lines, smooth gradients, Luna, Apple, Clearlooks, Vista, and the list goes on.

Some themes are better than others. That is to say, that their creators took more time and care, and put more thought into their theme, than someone else might have who made somthing that looked similar. Just because something appears similar, or has the same aesthetic values, doesn't mean it's a mod or a rip.

If you say so.

The start button looks identical, but it's such a simple design that you can't really prove anything one way or the other.

Sure you can open them up with either resedit or stylebuilder if you are that curious. The only thing it will prove is my point.

Id just like to say this should not be listed as a mod!!!! I used SlanXP2 and Nion by lasse which are both great styles, but if u use it a lot u will realise these are quite different. Start button is a windows sign, dont see how thats copying lasse, in fact the buttons are different in the way they interact with mouse over and clicks. Thanks for what is imho the best vs made yet!

Well thanks for that comment, glad to see someone who can appreciate the work I've put into this.

Very cool, thanks for the effort and thanks for sharing.

Nice job

Nah, I don't care enough to do that. It's a very nice theme.

It looks very nice. If only people would start making themes like this for vista! I'm craving minimalist.

I think I found a bug....or something
after running your new theme (which by the way looks great) I couldn't run the program Rhinoceros 4 anymore....this never happened to me before although I'm switching themes pretty often... only after I reset the theme to the previously one I used I could run the program again....
I it is of any interest for you I could try to find out more info and post it.

Check out this thread and see if this relates to you. Hope this helps. If not maybe more info is needed. Leave me a p.m. -thanks.

so i really like this theme and would like to know how to go about installing it since theres no .msstyles file or anything...

does reshacker provide tools to install themes?

The msstyles are there, just look in the folder VS Original or VS Mods, and there are subfolders and then just move those to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes.

haha thanks... apparently i didnt look hard enough!

Hmm, for some reason the font on my Opera got way bigger.

when I swapped back to default XP skin they went small again.

Any ideas?

I think it has to do with the font that is set with theme, try changing it around and see what that does. I remember dealing with that quite a while ago but I don't remember what my fix was exactly.