Xbox 360: Change the Default Dashboard Theme

By Brian Burgess on December 24, 2011 in How-To

To get a fresh view of your Windows 7 system, change the Aero Theme. The Xbox 360 lets you change its Dashboard theme too.

Here I’m using the latest Xbox dashboard update. Select Social then your Xbox Live avatar.

Xbox 360 Dashboard

On the next screen select Change Theme.

Highlight the Theme you want to use. The theme is displayed as you highlight each one.

Select Xbox 360 Theme

Here I’m selecting The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Theme that I purchased from the Xbox Marketplace.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Theme

That’s it. It’s cool to change your Xbox dashboard theme once in a while to for a fresh view.

Skyrim Theme Xbox Dashboard

Cal January 5, 2012 at 12:49 am #

Thanks. I don’t know why MS made that setting so hard to find in the update.

Max Limitz January 10, 2012 at 3:54 am #

Yeah, this one was hard to find. I looked everywhere: System Settings, Guide button, Profile, Account, etc.

amy February 17, 2012 at 12:36 pm #

hi,
i just bought xbox360 slim and it downloaded latest dashboard which i don’t like at all!
do u know how can i change it to the original dashboard…just as it was when i first time used it?

- Brian Burgess February 20, 2012 at 7:51 pm #
  
  @amy: That is a great question. I don’t know if you can…at least not without hacking it in some way? Maybe someone else has an answer.
  
  But I agree. The layout of the UI is odd indeed. It’s not very intuitive.