A couple of days back I’d reviewed the ultra cool Royale Blue and Royale Noir Black themes for Windows XP. Both the themes came as part of a single theme file called msroyale. Along with that I’d also provided a link to the Zune theme, which is almost similar to Royal Noir, except for a touch of orange here and there.
Seems like recently there was an update in the theme pack and now all three themes (Royale, Royale Noir & Royale Zune) are available as part of a single theme installer pack named Royale Remixed. While you had to manually unzip the previous version in the Windows themes folder, this one comes in the form of an executable installer that does the whole installation part for you.
Here are a couple of screen-shots for you…
Royale (Blue)
Royale Noir (Black)
Royale Zune (Black & Orange)
I couldn’t find any official download location for this theme pack. However, they’d been put up for download on a couple of free file-hosting services, which surprisingly stopped working after a while. However, do not be disappointed 
I’ve uploaded them on alternate locations and here’s the list …
Note: The installer is kind of buggy and along with Royale, it installed a theme called Windows Media Center Edition (with all new icons), which I simply couldn’t get to work. If it works for you, do leave a comment.
P.S. I managed to find the original artist’s site for this theme-pack.
Vyoma said:
I am just in love with the Royal Noir theme.
Dhanesh said:
Niceee ! Me too am in love with this theme. Simple yet cool ! will shurely d’load this version. Thankx for the heads up
Dhanesh said:
Are the comments moderated ?
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Yup
They ARE… to reduce spam from the elite spammers like you 
Dhanesh said:
Lol, 1337 alright
but spammer ?
Neways, i kinda installed this, but its too buggy than you mentioned. I mediacenter alone if selected can give u the icons, but you dont get the choice to select zune,noir or royale in appearance. Either ways when i double click the old theme file i had the 3 appreances show up .. but the windows and buttons drop down goes blank.
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Yup I just couldn’t get the Media Center Theme to work - but all three of the Royale Themes turned up individually for me… didn’t face any problem using them.
Anybody else with bug reports?
E.J. said:
Check out the faq here: Royale Noir Forum.
You have to patch UXtheme.dll.
Good luck.
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
E.J.: Thanks for that bit of really necessary info. Will come up with an addendum to this article pointing readers at the right direction
Cheers,
m^e
Zam478 said:
I got the Media Thing to work. I don’t know how, though. You might have to make sure that your copy is genuine or something. I don’t know.
Dll Files Dude said:
Nice nice nice… thanks for this post.
Mike
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Zam478: Dunno where the problem is - but I’d grabbed the pack from the maker’s website - so it should be the original one.
Dll Files Dude: Glad you found it useful
Cheers,
m^e
debasish mishra said:
so after so many comments how will be i able to waste any time to download all this ,,,, so hurry up
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
debasish: I hope you enjoyed the downlaod…
Entreview.com said:
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Grab the cool Royale Noir Theme pack for Windows XP…