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Leaked Windows 7 Details: Theme Files, Gallery, Packs and Wallpaper Slideshow

8/7/2008 10:10 PM

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Leaked Windows 7 Details: Theme Files, Gallery, Packs and Wallpaper Slideshow

While Windows 7 is still a taboo subject as far as Microsoft is concerned, with the company offering just crumbs from the feast that is Windows Vista's successor, details do manage to slip through, and the Redmond company has nobody to blame for it but itself. In this context, the software giant has revealed via MSDN that Windows 7 will bring the evolution of the .theme file format introduced with Windows 95, and nothing short of a true survivor. The further growth of the .theme file format will be interpretable only by Windows 7, with the previous versions of Windows ignoring new aspects.

The updated Creating and Installing Theme Files documentation containing the references to Windows 7, and uncovered by Long Zheng, has been altered to remove all references to the next iteration of the Windows client. However, thanks to the Google and Live Search cache, users can still access the original resource and get an idea of what Windows 7 will bring to the table. A relevant aspect also worth noting is the fact that Microsoft constantly refers not only to Windows 7, but also to Windows 8.

As far as the Themes are concerned, the software giant indicated that for "Windows 7 and later - the icon to show in the theme gallery, either an embedded resource or a path to an .ico file. Paths are relative to the directory of the .theme file."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leaked-Windows-7-Details-Theme-Files-Gallery-Packs-and-Wallpaper-Slideshow-91541.shtml