After two days of searching the internet for Windows XP themes, I have been led in circles, directed to download programs that will do dubious things to my system before expiring in 30 days unless I want to buy the full program, and basically frustrated at every turn to find a way to make my desktop look different than the standard Olive Green, Blue, or Silver.

Everything I have found is geared for something called windows blinds, or desktopX, or other names I can't recall off-hand. All I'm looking for is a way to change the color of things like the taskbar, toolbars, and navigation bar of my desktop and applications, without having to learn a new profession. I don't want fancy objects that I see in these previews (I can't even tell what they are other than some strange boxes placed dead center of the screen). I just want some different colors to choose from.

My question is, where can I get the simple, "I don't need to download some kind of theme manager that will expire in 30 days and who knows if I'll get to keep the theme or not when it does?", themes? Or do they even exist? I hope that there is something available for the old, not so "with-it" windows xp desktops out there, and if not, then perhaps someone remembers how they changed the look of windows xp BEFORE people joined the "theme manager programs zomg!" craze?

Thanks