
The Windows Standard and Windows Classic themes forgo the colorful Windows Vista/Windows 7 interface and replace it with a gray interface that looks more like the Windows 2000 desktop, while the Windows 7 Basic and Windows Vista Basic themes allow you to keep the new colors while disabling the 3D-accelerated enhancements of Aero.

Pretty easy! In Windows Vista, it’s a little more complicated.


Microsoft spruced up the aging Windows XP interface by creating the new 3D-accelerated Aero interface for Windows Vista. “I like the enhanced graphics in Windows 7, but my computer barely meets the system requirements and it feels like it takes longer than it should to do simple things like opening and moving windows.
