Style XP problem

Oh, you can walk upright, you are far to advanced for this type of thing. But seriously are you running StyleXP or have you hacked your uxtheme.dll?

StyleXP. The styles I installed before all came from Lightstar1.com and were self installing. These do-it-yourself thingamabobs don't like me much.

did you extract the msstyle to a folder of the same name?
ie
C:\\Windows\\Resources\\Themes\\ThisTheme\\ThisTheme.msstyle

you don't need a .theme file, either. those are really more of a hassle anyways

I did what dextro typed. The themes that I can find in my display properties are the ones with the windows theme file though.

You need to either download StyleXP or patch your uxtheme.dll file. The patch can be found here...
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=117692&hl=ux
theme+patch

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I have downloaded stylexp from their site. How do I get the theme to remain applied after restart? Please help...

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The only way themes show up in the theme menu is if they have a .theme file. It is possible that things don't show up in the appearance tab as well, and I think it's because they might not have a shellstyle.dll file. In this case, go to the file through Windows Explorer and double-click the .msstyles file. This should apply the theme, and it should remain in the appearance menu as long as it is applied. This should be easy to handle provided you don't change too frequently.

As far as it not staying applied after a restart, I'm not sure about that. It could be some problem with your StyleXP.

ok, this is what you do...

1) Get the uxtheme.dll patch.
2) After installing, restart your comp.
3) Unzip the *.msstyles file to the directory C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\**ThisTheme**\**ThisTheme**.msst
yles, where **ThisTheme** is the name of the theme. For example, if you're downloading KoL's Milk, the path would be C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Milk\Milk.msstyles.
4) Open up Display Properties, go to the Appearance tab, and select the theme you installed from the drop-down list.

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hmm.. sorry to ressurect a dying topic but: okay, i have an msstyles file and it is in \\windows\\resources\\themes\\thistheme\\ - sure. well it wont show up in the display settings dialog. im guessing i need a theme file. (which the vis style doesnt come with.) what can i do?

By the way, its not in the Appearance tab, nor the Themes tab.

I think it's actually the shellstyle.dll that makes it show up there. It's either that or the .theme file, but either way I'm pretty sure the .msstyles file by itself doesn't do anything. If you double-click the .msstyles file and have it applied, you can save a theme file yourself. This way it should know to use that VS when you apply that theme.

Doubleclicking it will open up the Display Properties dialog, but showing the 'Windows Classic' style.

Yes, I patched my uxtheme. (Using neowin's patcher)

What do i do now?

That happens if you use the wrong patcher, I know, but other than that I'm not sure. Since nobody has asked, make sure that you are using the correct uxtheme.dll. There are different patchers for base XP and XP SP 1. Also, in my experience, the first patcher I used for SP1 didn't work. So you'll have to check.

yeah.. somehow neowin's patcher failed. manually replaced it and its fine now. :)

thanks custo.