Hey I am working on "pimping out" my relatives computer so I patched the uxtheme dll with PatchXP. I checked to see which patch I should use and since hes using SP1 Ipatched using the XP1 patch. I downloaded a couple themes and they aren't being recognized, etc. like it should be. The weird thing is that I used this patch on both mine and a friends computer with SP1 and it worked perfectly. Anyone know why this is not working?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
That sometimes happens on my pc; some themes don't get recognized or added to the appearance's pane. However, you can still activate the theme by double-clicking the actual theme file in the Win/Resources/Themes directory.
Hope that helps.
some things to check:
1. try a different patcher. ask me if you want some, as i have several.
2. make sure the themes service is set to auto.
3. double-click the file and see if it loads. if it does, then the folder is simply improperly named. the individual theme folder must correspond to the theme name, e.g. gloss.msstyles must be in its folder called "gloss" and it'll appear.
On my comp I just have a folder with all my themes and when I want to change or something I just double click. I tried that first on his computer and it didn't work and thats when I tried moving it to the windows theme folder or whatever and it didn't help. I guess I will try a different patcher. I'll get back to you, thanks.
How do I change the theme thing to Auto?
try this patch: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...117160&hl=patch
never failed me.
to set the service to auto, go to run > services.msc > find themes service and set it to auto.
themes should be placed here: C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes
inside each individual folder.
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