Tutorial: How to install and use Vista themes and visual styles - Page 3

**Homeboy** · #21 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 05:17 AM

Restart your computer in safe mode, and restore your system to an earlier date.

ohzhian · #22 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 07:43 AM

sorry if i did not use the correct place but admin i need help
i am totally new and i would like to change my theme to another theme
i used window xp and the one i wished to download is also xp
when i pressedthe .msstyles file it came out the display window and i didnot
know what to do can u teach me please ??

thx alot

**Homeboy** · #23 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 08:23 AM

ohzhian, you need to install uxtheme patcher to use themes on XP.

Flaw · #24 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 04:22 AM

I'm really freaked out right now.

I downloaded that Vista Glazz thing and pressed Patch for the themes and now my theme is the crappy classic theme and it won';t give me an option to change it back to aero!!!!

Second, I tried downloading Vista Black for Basic, and it linked me to a deviantart site, I downloaded the file there. But I tried to open it and it was a .rar file. What the heck am I supposed to do now? How do I insert the theme or whatever???

**Homeboy** · #25 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 12:07 PM

Are you using Windows Vista SP1? If so, Vista Glazz is not compatible with Vista SP1. You have to restore to a point when you hadn't installed Vista Glazz.

To extract files from a .rar archive, download and install Winrar.

Hope this helps.

Flaw · #26 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 08:26 PM

I have Home Basic, is that SP1?

**Homeboy** · #27 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 04:59 AM

Home Basic doesn't have Aero! So, Vista Glazz only works on Windows Vista Premium/Business/Ultimate edition.

See their FAQ and system requirements page for more information.

roystreet · #28 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 06:14 PM

Hello,
I am using Vista Business - Without SP1. I am having a problem with the Steel and Glass theme working. I have downloaded & run VistaGlazz with no problem. I then downloaded several themes & I really wanted the one I mentioned above to work. I have copied the extracted files to the Themes folder as directed in the tutorial. The Steel & Glass theme is available in the personalization area, but when I pick it, it just looks like the windows classic. I have tried other themes I've downloaded & they all seem to do the same thing.
...So, when I tried to follow the directions of Kelby01, all of the windows had a clear background & the background was black. I could really see any of the text, nor could I see the toolbar, with the exception of icons. Most of the text was clear & so I basically couldn't do much of anything at all. I was trying to find my way through windows practically blind sense a lot of the text was absolutely transparent.

Now, maybe I'm misunderstood what Kelby01 said to do...
I...
Renamed the original Aero folder to oleAero.
Renamed the Steel and Glass folder to Aero.

When I opened the personalization area, it was of course defaulted on Aero, which now looked very odd...But maybe that's because I just changed it. But help me understand, Kelby01 directs me to not use the Steel and Glass theme file?? I may be wrong, possibly confused? Well, it wasn't working. So, I opened up the Steel and Glass theme file in notepad & updated the lines where the path was \Steel and Glass to \Aero. This would be or in my mind, should be more correct since the Steel and Glass folder was renamed to Aero. Now, is when things started changing. Since the Steel and Glass theme was selected the changes started happening...It's like it partly switched over to the new version of it.

...Anyone have any ideas of how I could make this work? I was eventually able to get things back to how they were, but it was hard because I'm kind of blindly sifting through things. Safe mode would still bring that "Corrupted" theme up.

Thanks,
---roystreet

**Homeboy** · #29 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 06:58 AM

1) Please provide the link to Steel and Glass theme.

2) Have you tried applying other themes to see if anything works at all?

darkstrydar · #30 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 05:22 AM

Hi, i'm new to this modding of the OS and what not and i've got some things working, basically i got all the files replaced that need to be replaced in system 32. I have themes that come as themes working great, but whenever i get some theme that only comes with a .msstyles and a shell folder that has a normal colors folder with shellstyle.dll in it. I've tried several things. I've simply copied the stuff to a folder in the themes menu and double clicked the .msstyles but it didn't show up under the name of the Windows Aero or Windows Basic. I've done what i did before but gone through and changed the ownerships and the permissions and tried again and still nothing. I've also tried adding stuff to the folder so that it basically looks like the original Aero folder in the themes folder, by adding the en-US, the .mui files. All that. still nothing. So i'm at a loss because there seem to be lots of people that are getting this to work and i'm getting frustrated. Any help could be appreciated. Below are two of the themes i'm trying to get to work but failing at it. Let me know if anything can be done, thank you!
Black Mod by ~noTcRime on deviantART
Azenis 2 VS by *yingjunjiu on deviantART