Style xp problem.

[Strider Hiryu]

I've been using style xp to load themes for my computer. I finally found the theme Ive been looking for, 2advanced, but I've run into a problem.

Before, it skinned everything nicely, even had small graphics in my windows explorer backgrounds, because of the shellstyel.dll I'm guessing. But lately, style xp has been acting up and I'm able to skin everything but those explorer windows. I really missed how it looked, and am trying to get it back that way.

I've also noticed something weird happens when I reboot my system. If I have a theme loaded and restart, it goes back to windows classic. This applies to all themes other than the default Windows XP one. But since I've been using the "load visual style" option in Style XP, it doesn't do that anymore.

Does anyone know how to make the awesome 2advanced theme work the way it did again? T_T

 

[madmatt]

need more info. what version of Windows XP (SP1?) and what version of StyleXP?

 

[cptmorgan]

i had the same prob....

i had that problem too and it had to do with windows xp and correcting its system files. i had to do a clean install of windows xp with sp1 and patch the uxtheme.dll myself

 

[madmatt]

XP with SP1..

Try PatchXP.exe available from this site, written by andyp.

official thread: http://www.xp-erience.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20491
news headline: http://www.xp-erience.org/comments.php?id=327&catid=2

If you have an OEM version of XP. Follow the following steps:
Do a searh for any file named uxtheme.dl_ and rename it/them to uxtheme.bak,
then run PatchXP again (remeber to search for hidden files and folders too).