Windows XP has a built-in Windows 2000 theme that you can select, which is basically the same theme as Windows Me. (Even better: the mouse cursor will have a nice subtle shadow that is missing in Windows Me.)

Startup and shutdown will be a lot tougher, though. Not sure if there are any patches out there that can mod those.

yes i use that Classic theme... but i love Windows ME theme(even the OS had several problems), that's why 😉

2000/ME are also my favorite icon sets and unique to those two systems. It's difficult to replace all the XP icons with those but trivial to match almost everything else with a custom theme file. My Computer, etc are easy to define in the theme but others like Control Panel are difficult to replace.

to be honest, even WinXP, isn't be MS-DOS(but Command Prompt), i think is much more stable than Windows 98\ME or even 2K... because some MS-DOS games are working better on WinXP than older versions(tested by me... ok the PC is more younger than Windows ME\98) 😉
ok.. with sound emulation 😜

XP's startup is an entirely different VGA mode without a color cycle, so if there's any recreation of the boot screen, it'll never be the same. For icons, this may get into DLL hackery territory and there WAS a special theming program out there that could do that for XP and 7.

i belive theres 1, but i can't find it. and isn't official

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIL0MRmXaZU
finally i download it.. even the Antivirus think that it's a virus..
https://www.deviantart.com/vertigosity/art/In … -0-7-2-27939557

I made a windows 95 theme for Windows 7 once. Had a lot of registry patches. I wonder if I can find it