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Windows 7 - How do I delete a skin pack completely?

 
02-08-2012   #1


Windows 7 Home Premium x64
 
 

How do I delete a skin pack completely?

Ok, my idiotic cousin thought it would be funny to download a christmas skin pack on my laptop. So I tried changing themes because I have to uninstall the Skin Pack first. Thats where I think I went wrong. Because when I uninstalled the Skin pack and rebooted the laptop there were some stuff that were still there from the skin pack which was supposed to be deleted when I uninstalled the skin pack. Like the start orb button didn't go back to normal, the windows logon picture, the sound when I log in and log off or turn off the computer is Santa saying hoho or some other crap. So I want to know how to delete all this stuff off of my laptop for good. Also some files and icons didn't go back to default also. And in explorer.exe theres alot of red thats not supposed to be there.

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02-08-2012   #2


Windows 7 Ultimate x86/Ubuntu
 
 


Go to C:/Windows/Resources/Themes and delete everything except "Aero" and "aero". Then change the theme to Aero using Control Panel/Personalisation

I have included the replacements to explorer.exe, shell32.dll, ExplorerFrame.dll and Aero. Download each one and extract to your Desktop.

Put Aero in C:/Windows/Resources/Themes
Put shell32.dll in C:/Windows/system32
Put ExplorerFrame.dll in C:/Windows/system32
Put explorer.exe in C:/Windows

You may need to Take Ownership Shortcut of each of these files. Right Click and select Take Ownership

Then open Task Manager and click the Processes Tab, Right Click on explorer.exe and select End Process[/b]. Then go back to the Applications Tab and select New Task. Head over to C:/Windows/System32 for example and ExplorerFrame.dll to ExplorerFrame.dll.old and then copy the new ExplorerFrame in. Do this for all files.

Additionally an SFC /SCANNOW may help.
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Last edited by Infinite; 02-09-2012 at 09:26 AM.. Reason: Forgot to include replacement pack.
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02-09-2012   #3


Acer laptop W 7 Pro SP1 64 bit & Dell Desktop W 7 Pro SP1 32 bit
 
 


Do not delete everything in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes
Look in personalization first a look at the Aero Themes do not delete anything with these names.
How do I delete a skin pack completely?-personalization.pngHow do I delete a skin pack completely?-themes.png

Do Options 2 of this tutorial first SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
it will not harm any data or programs you have installed it will try to repair your system files.

Look at this tutorial Sounds - Change you may be able to select the sound theme being used and delete it.
Let us know how it goes for you.
Jerry
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