RetroBar
Pining for simpler times? RetroBar teleports you back in time by replacing your modern Windows taskbar with the classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, or Vista style.
RetroBar is based on the ManagedShell library for great compatibility and performance.
Requirements
Features
- Replaces default Windows taskbar with classic layout
- Native notification area with balloon notification support
- Native task list with UWP app support and drag reordering
- Quick launch toolbar
- Start button opens modern start menu
- Ability to show or hide the clock
- Ability to auto-hide the taskbar
- Locked and unlocked taskbar appearances
- Display taskbar on any side of the screen (even on Windows 11)
- Resizable taskbar with support for multiple rows
- Option to display the taskbar, notification area, and clock on multiple monitors
- Ability to show Vista-style window thumbnails
- Customizable XP-style collapsible notification area
- Custom theme support
Included themes
- System (Classic, XP, and Vista)
- Watercolor
- Windows 95-98
- Windows Me
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP:
- Classic
- Blue
- Olive Green
- Silver
- Royale
- Royale Noir
- Embedded Style
- Zune Style
- Windows Longhorn Aero
- Windows Vista:
Supported languages
- Arabic (العربية)
- Basque (euskara)
- Bulgarian (български)
- Catalan (català)
- Chinese (Simplified) (中文(简体))
- Chinese (Traditional) (中文(繁體))
- Croatian (hrvatski)
- Czech (čeština)
- Dutch (Nederlands)
- English
- English (United Kingdom)
- Finnish (Suomi)
- French (français)
- German (Deutsch)
- Greek (ελληνικά)
- Hebrew (עברית)
- Hungarian (magyar)
- Indonesian (Indonesia)
- Italian (italiano)
- Japanese (日本語)
- Korean (한국어)
- Latvian (latviešu)
- Lithuanian (lietuvių)
- Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch)
- Malay (Melayu)
- Persian (فارسی)
- Polish (polski)
- Portuguese (português)
- Romanian (română)
- Russian (русский)
- Serbian (Cyrillic) (српски)
- Serbian (Latin) (srpski)
- Slovak (slovenčina)
- Spanish (español)
- Swedish (svenska)
- Thai (ไทย)
- Turkish (Türkçe)
- Ukrainian (українська)
- Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
Custom languages and themes
RetroBar supports custom languages and themes. To use custom languages or themes, create a Languages
or a Themes
directory and place valid .xaml
language or theme files there.
Valid locations to create a Languages
or a Themes
directory:
- In the same directory as
RetroBar.exe
- In
%localappdata%\RetroBar
Themes use the XAML ResourceDictionary
format. View the included example themes to get started.