[sedative]

Homer, on Jul 6 2002, 12:50 PM, said:

its ok its my falt just instealled it anit downloaded a them its wicked its like glass the windows cool or what.

as u are the only one that can help me how do u bulid them please pm me if ya can cheers

You build themes using Style Builder

You'll need some imaging skills (Photoshop, Paintshop, whatever..). I've never tried, but i'm sure it's not easy.

[Homer]

i got a theme i like un ziped it to there then went to chage theme and its not there????

so i went to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\ and thought i would doulbe click on it ans that didnt work. so what shell i do ?

[Homer]

its weird the way u said i cant do it i found a way to do it so its cool

[sedative]

Themes should be unzipped to their own sub-directory. For example, if your theme is named "Sedative", then it should be unzipped to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Sedative

like this...


the "Windows Visual Style File" is the one you want. You can either double-click on it or change your theme through Display Properties. like this...



I hope this finally clears everything up

[Aaron]

Amen!

[Homer]

it does i think ijust downloaded a crap theme that dont work

[XtremeMaC]

hi
I see lots of spam page here
post #1 babis we've a uxtheme now here on MSFN

old topic?

[netpotato18]

i dont know about you guys but when i double click on the windows visual styles file it just brings be to the display window but makes no change and the theme is not inplace i even extracted it to the windoes/Resources folder and it still dosent work

[affidavit]

is it possible to use the hacked uxtheme via installation disk so the origional uxtheme is never even there... without causeing a problem with windows file protection and without having to disableing it as well?

[Aaron]

affidavit, on Feb 23 2004, 11:29 PM, said:

is it possible to use the hacked uxtheme via installation disk so the origional uxtheme is never even there... without causeing a problem with windows file protection and without having to disableing it as well?

Here you go:

http://www.MSFN.org/...acked_files.htm

Works very well!

[Lunar Leaper]

Aaron, on Feb 23 2004, 06:26 PM, said:

Here you go:

http://www.MSFN.org/...acked_files.htm

Works very well!

Aaron!

I think the page isn't fully updated after it has been updated to Win XP SP2 (?). Pics are missing, and I won't even start telling you about the lay out

Cheers.

[MolTraS]

hi, i need uxtheme for sp2 in spanish

[RBCC]

How do I install my theme created with stylebuilder so it will install on my unattended XP CD? John

[at0mican]

Uxtheme Multi-patcher 3.0

[Seanie's Show]

Hi, if you want to add a new theme to your version of windows without any additional software here's how to do it, I used this methord to install the energy blue MCE 2005 theme (Royale) on XP 64 bit which had a discusting theme:

Create the following folders under the C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes folder: (I just copied Luna and renamed and deleted extra files)

royale
royale\shell
royale\shell\homestead
royale\shell\metallic
royale\shell\normalcolor
royale\shell\royale
royale\wallpaper


Copy the royale.theme file that you extracted into the main C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes folder.

Copy the royale.msstyles file into the \royale subfolder.

Copy the shellstyle.dll file into each of the \shell subfolders (royale\shell\homestead, royale\shell\metallic, royale\shell\normalcolor, royale\shell\royale).

Copy the energybliss.jpg file into the \royale\wallpaper subfolder.

Delete all remaining files, REQUIRED FOR TABLET PC ONLY.

When you select the Display Properties Appearance tab you will see two Windows XP style options listed.

One of the style options includes a Royale color scheme (XP automatically selected this, butr just check); select this scheme then on the theme tab, select the Energy Blue theme.

And there you go!!!

[poppie]

A easy way to insert a theme to your unattnded is:

Lets say you want the Royale theme:

1. Install the theme on a refference PC (and customize it if you like)

2. Then Copy the theme file from C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes (for royale this will be the "Royale.Theme file") to your \$OEM$\$$\Resources folder.

3. Then Copy the theme folder (for royale this will be "C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Royale" to to your \$OEM$\$$\Resources folder

4. Then add the following lines to the "WINNT.SIF" file:

[Shell]
CustomDefaultThemeFile="%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\Royale.Theme"

Works perfect

[RBCC]

After I install my theme can I then use a style that I built with stylebuilder? John

[Innocent Devil]

what are the CLSID of various components like Run,Help & Support,My Pictures etc
so that i can specify the icons for each in the .theme file itselt as like Mycomputer or RecycleBin

[ghassen]

is it silent to use?

[Halo Hacker]

The link where you can dl themes is dead.