Smoke286
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Here is the siplist way I've found to do it, it worked for me, and I'm pretty simple
UXTheme.dll
UXTheme is a patch from TGTsoft that allows the use of non-digitally-signed themes.
You can get it from http://www.tgtsoft.com/downloads/uxthemepatcher.zip
The instructions that are included are very hard to understand and they made it that way to
encourage you to buy their lame product Styles XP..
Here i will try to explain how to patch it in a friendlier way for the newbies so they can use themes...
1.first of all u open a My computer window then click on Tools then Folder Options, then you click on the >View< tab.
Then u check the circle next to show all files. After you did that, You want to uncheck the check box next to >Hide Protected Operating System Files<
2.After you have done that, you want to extract that file you got from the site i posted above using winzip/winrar.
After that you want to execute the file that comes extracted out of the .zip file. Just say you agree and stuff to all those warnings.
3. Assuming your default Windows folder is c:\\Windows, you go to C:\\Windows\\system32\\dllcache and find the file called uxtheme.dll in there, then right click on it and select rename, then rename it to uxtheme.bak. You will get two warnings from windows file protection..>>Do not worry.. nothing will happen to your system and do not insert ur windows XP cd when it asks u to<< After you have done that lets go back to C:\\Windows\\system32 and find the file called uxtheme.dll and rename it to uxtheme.bak the way u did last time. In this section, lastly, find the file called >>Uxtheme.PAT<< and rename it to UXtheme.dll and then do a full reboot of your system.. Now you should be able to run themes flawlessly..!
This came from another XP Forum, like the guy says, I tried it and it works
UXTheme.dll
UXTheme is a patch from TGTsoft that allows the use of non-digitally-signed themes.
You can get it from http://www.tgtsoft.com/downloads/uxthemepatcher.zip
The instructions that are included are very hard to understand and they made it that way to
encourage you to buy their lame product Styles XP..
Here i will try to explain how to patch it in a friendlier way for the newbies so they can use themes...
1.first of all u open a My computer window then click on Tools then Folder Options, then you click on the >View< tab.
Then u check the circle next to show all files. After you did that, You want to uncheck the check box next to >Hide Protected Operating System Files<
2.After you have done that, you want to extract that file you got from the site i posted above using winzip/winrar.
After that you want to execute the file that comes extracted out of the .zip file. Just say you agree and stuff to all those warnings.
3. Assuming your default Windows folder is c:\\Windows, you go to C:\\Windows\\system32\\dllcache and find the file called uxtheme.dll in there, then right click on it and select rename, then rename it to uxtheme.bak. You will get two warnings from windows file protection..>>Do not worry.. nothing will happen to your system and do not insert ur windows XP cd when it asks u to<< After you have done that lets go back to C:\\Windows\\system32 and find the file called uxtheme.dll and rename it to uxtheme.bak the way u did last time. In this section, lastly, find the file called >>Uxtheme.PAT<< and rename it to UXtheme.dll and then do a full reboot of your system.. Now you should be able to run themes flawlessly..!
This came from another XP Forum, like the guy says, I tried it and it works