Gaming Confusion with Visual Styles

[Ryukouki]

Hiya Temp, Happy Easter first off! I'm confused about running a Visual Style. I have the file but don't know what the hell I have to do. Can anyone lead me to a page that has a tutorial or explain it by posting here? I really wanna try new stuff out and see what I get. Does this require any coding experience at all?

Thanks, and once again, Happy Easter to you and your families.

EDIT: I'm currently running a laptop from HP, it's a DV4 and it has Win 7 Home Prem. if that helps.

 

[Twiffles]

Gotta download and run uxtheme patcher so you can actually use the stuff.

Then after head out to the C:\Windows\Resources\Themes folder then drag and drop/copy/cut/whatever the 'Windows Theme' file and the folder into it.

 

[Ryukouki]

Sorry for asking Twiffles but what do you mean "actually use the stuff?" No coding involved or any registry edit progs?

 

[Ryukouki]

Quick update: Uhhhhh I ran the UXTheme patcher but it says an unsupported OS is detected, but it's genuine windows 7? what;s happening!?

Quik Update 2: Got the Windows 7 version for UXthemes, now what? I have a themeui.dll, a uxtheme.dll and shsvcs.dll...

 

[Twiffles]

Instructions:

1. Download Universal Theme Patcher. Run in it Administrative mode (right-click > "Run as administrator"),

UAC must be turned off.
After patch, restart the computer to take effect.

2. Extract contents (Blahblah.theme & Blahblah folder) into C:\Windows\Resources\Themes
and double-click on Blahblah.theme
Then restart to make sure everything works properly.

 

[Ryukouki]

Thank you Twiffles, I'll try this out in a bit and get back to you. Gotta go do some work for now, I'll PM you if I require further assistance. Thanks for the patience and happy Easter!

 

[Minox]

Another alternative for that'd be VistaGlazz which from personal experience I'd recommend.

 

[Ryukouki]

Highly unsuccessful at Visual Styling, not gonna mess with scary files like that again. Does VistaGlazz work with Win 7?

 

[Twiffles]

What went wrong?

 

[Ryukouki]

Apparently the explorer.exe and some other file that I forgot stopped running on reboot. Maybe it was the theme... I dunno.

 

[Twiffles]

What theme was it? That shouldn't happen at all.

 

[Ryukouki]

EDIT: nvm, fixed!!!!!!

 

[Ryukouki]

Great, that failed too. DWM.exe and explorer exe failed to work with this application was the error, forgot the code. All i know was that I had a black screen for a desktop. Had to use System Restore 4 times today, great. I dunno what I did wrong either...

EDIT: Well, I figured it out. Have no idea what I did but it works sort of, thanks to the members on the temp, mainly Twiffles and Minox_IX for help and recommendations. Happy Easter to you guys!!!!

 

[Twiffles]

You're welcome. We're a community after all, we help each other out.

If you need any(more) help, feel free to ask and such.

 

[Ryukouki]

Hahaha thanks, and Happy Easter Twiffles!