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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...
Officially titled "Windows Classic style", this is the built-in look and feel of Windows that was used in previous versions of Windows prior to Windows XP. It is used when the theme service is disabled and in certain other scenarios, such as Win32 console windows or booting the system in Safe mode .
Image editors can be assigned to edit or replace bitmaps or png files that are contained within a theme’s *.msstyle file. Later versions of the application have added functionality to allow editing of the shellstyle.dll file which skins the popular tasks sections seen on the left side of explorer windows, as well as some control panel applets.
Windows Aero incorporated the following features in Windows Vista. Windows Aero theme: The main component of Aero, it is the successor of Windows XP's "Luna" and changes the look and feel of graphical control elements, including but not limited to buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, progress bars and default Windows icons. Even message ...
The Office Assistant was an intelligent user interfacefor Microsoft Office. It assisted users by way of an interactive animated characterthat interfacedwith the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Office for Windows(versions 97 to 2003), in Microsoft Publisherand Microsoft Project(versions 98 to 2003), Microsoft FrontPage(versions ...
With Windows XP, the Start button has been updated to support Fitts's law.To help the user access a wider range of common destinations more easily from a single location, the Start menu was expanded to two columns; the left column focuses on the user's installed applications, while the right column provides access to the user's documents, and system links which were previously located on the ...
MSSTYLES is a Microsoft file format, that contains the bitmaps and metadata for the Windows XP skinning engine, first introduced in Windows Whistler Build 2250. [2] The engine, in its unmodified state, only fully applies .msstyles files that have been digitally signed by Microsoft, such as Luna or the Zune theme.
Charles O'Rear (born November 26, 1941) [1] is an American photographer. His image Bliss is the default desktop wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. O'Rear started his career with the daily newspapers Emporia Gazette, The Kansas City Star, and Los Angeles Times; worked for National Geographic magazine; and was part of the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project.