Guide to changing your Vista theme and more...

[TSGB]

Sorry but im still having issues with this for some reason. I just reinstalled a fresh vista Glazz and did the patches on it. Than i took a theme from my external and droped it into the resource/themes folder double clicked it and it brout up the appeareance setting window and had windowns Aero selected. Any ideas??????

I'm attaching a screen shot with all the involved folders open so that you can see the setting and everything. Hopefully this can help some one point out my mistake. I'm sure it is my mistake and not the program or PC but u never know for sure. Also if u use Glazz shouldnt it change the 3 file names? because i dont see a themui.old just themeui.dll and the same for the other 2 files.

[CeeNote]

Sorry but im still having issues with this for some reason. I just reinstalled a fresh vista Glazz and did the patches on it. Than i took a theme from my external and droped it into the resource/themes folder double clicked it and it brout up the appeareance setting window and had windowns Aero selected. Any ideas??????

Have you applied this Aero theme because every single theme in the appearance window shows up as the regular aero theme. It only changes once you apply it.

EDIT: Everything looks correct in your screen shot. I'd be surprised if it doesn't work now.

[CeeNote]

Also if u use Glazz shouldnt it change the 3 file names? because i dont see a themui.old just themeui.dll and the same for the other 2 files.

It automatically overwrites those old files so don't worry if they still look the same.

[TSGB]

It didn't work. WHen the theme folder pops up it doesnt give the optoin to apply just ok and cancel. So i hit ok and nothing then i click on the theme it has in blue which is aero and then i get the apply but it just applies the aero? This is getting really frustrating.

[CeeNote]

It didn't work. WHen the theme folder pops up it doesnt give the optoin to apply just ok and cancel. So i hit ok and nothing then i click on the theme it has in blue which is aero and then i get the apply but it just applies the aero? This is getting really frustrating.

Don't worry it's really simple. Once you get to the appearance setting window, just click on any other color scheme first. Then click on your aero theme (the new one which you just used to open this window). Then it'll let you apply the theme.

[TSGB]

Still no good. I did what u said. When ever the appearance setting window opend i clicked on high contrast #2 then back on to windows aero and apply and nothing. Still the one i already had going. the only thing i can think of, if everything is set up right like u said. IS that the themes i have dont work for this OS maybe???? even thou one says milkvista. SO i will try a new theme from interfacelift.com That is the only sight i can use right now from work to download the theme. Also i down load them to my thumb drive then zip to desk top finaly drag and drop into theme. That should be ok right?

[niGht kiD]

Sorry but im still having issues with this for some reason. I just reinstalled a fresh vista Glazz and did the patches on it. Than i took a theme from my external and droped it into the resource/themes folder double clicked it and it brout up the appeareance setting window and had windowns Aero selected. Any ideas??????

I'm attaching a screen shot with all the involved folders open so that you can see the setting and everything. Hopefully this can help some one point out my mistake. I'm sure it is my mistake and not the program or PC but u never know for sure. Also if u use Glazz shouldnt it change the 3 file names? because i dont see a themui.old just themeui.dll and the same for the other 2 files.

As far as I know LutetiumGUI is a XP theme, so it can't be used on Vista. And I have problem applying MilkVista too. So let's try to use Satin instead.

Move the Satin_by_Michel8170.rar to other location, eg: desktop. Use 7-Zip to extract it. Open the Satin_by_Michel8170 that is extracted, Copy the folder named Satin to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes. After that, click the Satin visual style file inside that folder to apply the theme. The theme will have the same name as Windows Aero, just find the one you downloaded and click Apply. Good luck

[TSGB]

Unfortinately i dont have 7 zip and cant down load it right now the Gov. computer i'm using blocked it when i tried. It allows some web sites but not others. As for the Satin file that was in the screen shot is not properly downloaded any longer i just deleted it. Is there a theme on interfacelift that u know works well with vista? I will try it if u do.

[niGht kiD]

Get Vista theme here.

[TSGB]

Get Vista theme here.

I can't. I'm deployed so I have to either use the Goverment computer that doesnt block that site from you're link but will not show a single picture so the whole web page is unreadable. I can go to the coffie shop and use the Wi Fi but it took me 30 minutes to download that satin one. When it only took 2 seconds on interfacelift from work. Not sure why it allows me to do it on that site but it does. I will go and eat lunch in a min then head over to the coffie shop and try to download one off deviant art from there.