yes it was, it called desktop theme, but actually you can't do customization with that,it's only use to select desktop theme (more like theme manager, it actually from win98 plus), xp did this too, has msstyle without the style builder like what you said 24-bit is fine little btw have you ever heard that human eyes can only see 60fps (frame per second)? so what's different if you seen a movie use 120 fps? it'svery hard to explain but fly eyes can catch more speed and color than human and 32-bit is not actually 32, it just 24-bit image with 8-bit transparency /shadow now enough with that discussion, lets go with Litestep, anyone have a good XP like theme available there? i found one but it didn't fit well, post the linkand maybe we will get royale theme from that thing