Windows 7 users enjoy a different look and feel of the Aero theme and its effects. Even though, Windows 7 is based on Vista, but still there is a lot of difference in its window colours and appearance options.

How To Get Windows 7 Colours and Appearance in Vista

If you would like to get Windows 7 appearance style in Windows Vista, follow the steps below.

1. Download the following ZIP file which contains Windows 7 “themecpl.dll” & “themecpl.dll.mui” files.
   Download Windows 7 “Color and Appearance” Tab for Vista
2. Now go to your “C:\Windows\System32” folder and locate “themecpl.dll”.
3. Then take ownership of each of themecpl.dll file (How to? Read: How To Take Ownership)
4. Rename “themecpl.mui” to “themecpl_old.mui”.
5. And now extract and copy themecpl.dll from the downloaded ZIP file and paste to your “C:\Windows\System32” folder.
6. Now go to “C:\Windows\System32\en-US” and locate themecpl.dll.mui
7. Take ownership of that file and rename to “themecpl_old.dll.mui”
8. Now copy themecpl.dll.mui from downloaded zip file and past to “C:\Windows\System32\en-US” folder.
9. At last, run the install.reg file present in downloaded ZIP archive.
10. Reboot for changes to take effect.