Beta Visual Styles on Different Builds

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Beta Visual Styles on Different Builds

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Windows 7, Vista, and 7's beta builds can load all of 7's beta visual styles to some extent. I would NEVER recommend anyone do this, but here's a small snippet of results I got.

First, I tried to load the 7000, 6801, 6608, 6469, and 6002 visual styles under Windows 7 7601. 7000 loaded perfectly, so I will skip it.

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You can see how they slowly break as I go down in versions. This is mostly due to the Superbar and newer start menu graphics 7 introduced. But what if we tried it under beta versions themselves? (first image is from Splitwirez)

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These also work on other builds of 7, and Vista RTM. Feel free to experiment if you want to find some more cursed goodness.

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Re: Beta Visual Styles on Different Builds

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Yeah.. something just isn't quite right
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Something is definitely wrong, I just can't put my finger on it...
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Re: Beta Visual Styles on Different Builds

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MajorSky17 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:03 am Something is definitely wrong, I just can't put my finger on it...
It might be the desktop icons?

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