The GUI could be set back to classic Windows quite quickly. There was also the Zune, Royale and Royale Dark (unofficially leaked IIRC) themes that looked nice.

The GUI could be set back to classic Windows quite quickly. There was also the Zune, Royale and Royale Dark (unofficially leaked IIRC) themes that looked nice. XP 64bit (for x64 machines) however was the best Windows OS I've ever used. Fast and super stable. People used to complain about Vista being bad. However that was mainly a problem with 32bit Vista. 64bit Vista was again amazing.