Windows 7 Skin Of The Day: “Noir” With 3 Different Theme Styles

When it comes to Windows 7 skins, finding good styles is difficult. This visual style called Noir is one of the best I’ve seen lately. Install it if you don’t have a good one yet!

Head over to http://customize-that-pc.deviantart.com/ to download this shell skin. (Download from our mirror)

This is a very impressive shell skin called “Noir”. It not only has a great name, it also looks extremely elegant and is beautifully crafted:

The Start Menu has a pretty shutdown button and doesn’t have rounded edges

A screenshot of the system tray:

A close-up of the navigation buttons – very pretty:

Quick Look At The Important Theme Shell Files

Now let’s take a quick look at the system files included:

As you can see, this theme includes various Bitmap files. In order to install this theme correctly, you will need a resource editor.

We explained how to get this done here: Installing Explorerframe.dll skins

When you uncollapse the folder “Theme”, “Noir” you see the folders en-US and Shell, here are the important theme files that need to be copied into the the C:/Windows/Resources/Themes folder as outlined here . Follow the instructions precisely or you may not be able to boot Windows 7 – or damage system files. If you are new, make sure to learn how to recover your system by going into the safe mode and using the System file checker!

If you have any specific questions, you can send us a mail or post a comment below

Checklist before installing skins:

• Learn how to use sfc.exe
• Learn how to get into safe mode
• Burn a Live CD e.g. Ubuntu Live CD
• Install Ubuntu or Windows 8 on 2nd partition