Support for custom themes can also be added by patching system files, which is not endorsed by Microsoft. Third-party apps such as WindowBlinds, TuneUp Utilities and Desktop Architect enhance theme capabilities.
This feature was carried over to Windows Vista which added Windows Aero, but was removed with Windows 8. Windows XP expanded Windows theming support by adding visual styles and allowing each theme to specify one. These operating systems, as well as its successor, Windows Me, came with themes that customized desktop backgrounds, icons, user interface colors, Windows sounds and mouse cursors. Themes were later supported in Windows 98 and was built-in there. Themed systems Operating systems Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows first supported themes in Windows 95 as a separate application package called Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95. One method for dealing with this is to allow the user to select which parts of the theme they want to load for example in Windows 98, users could load the background and screensaver from a theme, but leave the icons and sounds untouched. For example, users might want the window-borders from a particular theme, but installing it would also alter the desktop background. Themes are often used to change the look and feel of a wide range of things at once, which makes them much less granular than allowing the user to set each option individually.
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