Allow Custom 3rd party Themes in Windows

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  1. Posts : 321
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
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    Allow Custom 3rd party Themes in Windows 7, Vista & XP


    We always like to customize our Windows to make it pretty. There are hundreds of themes available to spice up Windows.

    "UxStyle" is a very small utility created by well-known "Rafael" @ Withinwindows.

    As you all know, Windows doesn’t all you install third-party themes by default. To install a third-party theme in Windows, you need to patch Windows system files. Of course, there are many patches available, but many novice users find this as a tedious task.
    Here is a great application for Windows, named UxStyle Core that lets you patch Windows in a few seconds easily without playing with system files. It works fine for XP, Vista and Windows 7. So, just download and install the UxStyle Core to start playing with new themes.
       Note
    UxStyle is a light-weight system service named Unsigned Themes, complimentary to the Themes service, and a kernel driver, sizing in at ~500k and ~17kb respectfully (beta builds). The service handles the enabling/disabling of custom theme support and the kernel driver handles patching. For 64-bit platforms, the kernel driver is signed with a digital certificate, as required by Microsoft.
    Simply download and install the tool and get ready to enjoy 3rd party themes. It works in Windows XP, Vista and 7.
    Note that it doesn't have any UI. It'll run as a service in background and will allow you to use 3rd party themes.

    UxStyle - Enjoy 3rd party Themes.zip

    In builds 72xx you may need to run an elevated command prompt and copy paste exactly what the code shows below to make it work.

    Code:
    sc config uxpatch group= "File System"
    sc config UnsignedThemes group= UIGroup
    Last edited by edrik; 06 Jul 2009 at 08:49.
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  2. Posts : 918
    Windows 7 Professional, Windows Longhorn 4074
       #2

    I had UxPatcher on XP and Vista, and it was great! Thanks for posting!
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  3.    #3

    A lot is owed to Rafael and his work , If it wasn't for him we would all still be using the default themes Microsoft supply.

    Thanks for the Links
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  4. Posts : 918
    Windows 7 Professional, Windows Longhorn 4074
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    Does anyone know where I can get new themes? Struggling to find some...
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  5. Posts : 910
    Win 7
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    ikilledkenny said:
    Does anyone know where I can get new themes? Struggling to find some...
    At the moment things keep changing from build to build, here are some i was checking out for build 7100. I am sure you could find some more there
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  6. Posts : 575
    7600 x86
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    hmm this is interesting, i wasn't expecting it out so soon. i just bought (€3) AveStyler which is similar. but AveStyler has a GUI with a theme picker, and builds live previews of the styles that are in your themes folder so you know what you're getting. it's a nice little app!

    AveStyler
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  7. Posts : 309
    Windows 7 Ultimate retail // Windows 7 build 7264 x64, Vista Home Premium SP2 x64
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    Anyone know where to put the theme files and whatnot to get themes working?
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  8. Posts : 575
    7600 x86
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    grouchpunk08 said:
    Anyone know where to put the theme files and whatnot to get themes working?
    the theme file needs to be in /windows/resources/themes

    look in that folder at Aero.theme (you can view it in notepad) and inside the Aero folder where the Aero.msstyles file and other files are located to see how things are set up.
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  9. Posts : 2
    windows 7
       #9

    Thanks for this one. :)
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  10. Posts : 371
    Windows 7
       #10

    edrik said:
    We always like to customize our Windows to make it pretty. There are hundreds of themes available to spice up Windows.

    "UxStyle" is a very small utility created by well-known "Rafael" @ Withinwindows.

    As you all know, Windows doesn’t all you install third-party themes by default. To install a third-party theme in Windows, you need to patch Windows system files. Of course, there are many patches available, but many novice users find this as a tedious task.
    Here is a great application for Windows, named UxStyle Core that lets you patch Windows in a few seconds easily without playing with system files. It works fine for XP, Vista and Windows 7. So, just download and install the UxStyle Core to start playing with new themes.
       Note
    UxStyle is a light-weight system service named Unsigned Themes, complimentary to the Themes service, and a kernel driver, sizing in at ~500k and ~17kb respectfully (beta builds). The service handles the enabling/disabling of custom theme support and the kernel driver handles patching. For 64-bit platforms, the kernel driver is signed with a digital certificate, as required by Microsoft.
    Simply download and install the tool and get ready to enjoy 3rd party themes. It works in Windows XP, Vista and 7.
    Note that it doesn't have any UI. It'll run as a service in background and will allow you to use 3rd party themes.

    UxStyle - Enjoy 3rd party Themes.zip


    Thank s for this ..but how can i use ??
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