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noooo my vista theme changed, halppp! x___x

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Kyrdua:
what? >_> then in that case, either get that skin thingy from stardock or patch your uxtheme.dll
i've never heard or any way to glitch windows in to using unsigned themes.

x5ga:
one of the updates from Windows Update probably replaced the theme DLLs. Those are usually located in the \Windows\System32 and \Windows\SysWOW64 folders (for 64bit OS). The most common ones are:
- ExplorerFrame.dll
- ieframe.dll
- OobeFldr.dll
- shell32.dll

If you have a custom theme, always backup those 4 (or 8, on a 64bit OS) files before updating windows. Not all updates overwrite these files, but better be safe than sorry. You might need to take ownership of the files before being able to replace them.

Tiffanys:
Well, I did a system restore to 2 hours ago and it's back now. Is there any way to confirm what it is and to make sure I save it?

rathoriel:
why are you using vista?

Tiffanys:
(click to show/hide)...because when I built this pc w7 was too new and unstable (Rule of thumb: Wait 6+ months, especially with Microsoft) and by the time it became reliable enough, I'd already gotten used to and customized this one enough (especially having come from XP, and the transition was utter hell), that I really didn't want to have to fix everything I have all over again, and there's nothing wrong with Vista anyways. The only reason I ended up going with Vista Ultimate x64 was because I heard XP 64-bit is horrible, and I needed a 64-bit OS since I was doing a build with more than 4gb of RAM and more than 2 TB hdd space (or was it 5? I forget...).

Anyways, that's why. I'd just gotten done transitioning everything and to put myself through that hell again would be unreasonable and foolish, just to be on the bleeding edge. Also, most programs and games still had massive problems with W7 at that point and it would have basically been subjecting myself to unreasonable trouble for no good reason.

W7 was released: 10/22/2009
I built my pc: 6/14/2009
Anywho, here... if anyone wants it (I think?): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZMDFKMA8

I went to personalize > themes and then saved the one it had selected, which was "Modified Theme", soo... it should be what I have. But... it just looks like a normal Aero theme in the theme window. I dunno if it'll be right or not. I'm tellin ya... I could swear I was trying to change my theme or something and something or other happened, like I did a video card update or some sort of something update and had to restart my computer and things were all wonky and somehow I had this theme instead of the normal Aero... it happened years ago and I still have no idea how. But, I'm 99.99% sure that I didn't download any custom theme file or anything.

I mean, I dunno... it's possible... I did try my damnedest to get a decent looking theme after my initial transition from XP, since I was used to a really slim taskbar and a start button without a protruding orb. I remember that much... I could swear I had some sort of glitchy update or some wonkiness happened when I tried to change something and ended up with it though...

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