Windows 98 style flat icons in Windows XP

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Published on 2010-01-18T09:52:25Z Indexed on 2012/07/04 21:19 UTC
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I am using Windows XP. I am tired of looking at the folder icons in Windows XP. I changed the color depth to 256 colors and the folder icons in Windows Explorer changed to the flat - windows 95/98 style icons. I loved them!

is there a way to tell windows explorer to show those flat old style icons for folders? without going to 8-bit?

Note: I am okay with going down from 32-bit, but 8 is way too low to work with.

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