The Themes Wont Work ! Im Confused

[edstalker]

So I installed the theme patcher 64bit, restarted, downloaded the a bunch of themes to try out, dropped at Resources/Themes, I get to the point that it loads the theme but all that changes is the background of the skin, nothing els, the icons wont change, the taskbar wont change, what am I doing wrong, help please

 

[Stephanie]

If your installing 3rd party themes UAC needs to be off for the install

 

[edstalker]

Sorry but whats UAC :O?

 

[Stephanie]

User Account Control, please see > http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...hange-notification-settings.html?ltr=U&filter

Its not a good idea to leave UAC off though

 

[edstalker]

Nothing Changed mate, I put it to never notify me, yet still the themes wont work properly

 

[carwiz]

If your installing 3rd party themes UAC needs to be off for the install

Did you delete them and reinstall with UAC off or just turned off UAC?

Here's a similar thread with steps for unsigned themes. I hope you trust the provider.

 

[edstalker]

Problem is I have no such thing as "Unsigned Themes" in "Services"...
I tried UxStyle and still nothing.
Can it be some kind of a file I stopped which causes the problems?
As far as I know the whole theme thing has to be a lot easier.
Again, if I pick a certain theme, I mean the popular ones, its suppose to change the taskbar, start skin and some other right? dont I need any other program to make it change everything?

 

[carwiz]

Themes don't necessarily change anything but the desktop image and maybe colors. It depends on the theme.

Post an image of your theme select page, the name of the theme and where you got it. Also, are you running Aero?

 

[edstalker]

Here's one of the themes
Alternative AE for Windows 7 by oliver182 on deviantART
I assume it has to change the colors to red for example but it but nothing, nothing has change except the background image. Lucid theme has to change the taskbar to be more transparent but obviously, its all the same.
here's a list of few of them, they are from deviantart:
Alternative
Lucid
Lucid for Win 7 by nopd11 on deviantART
Aero
Aero x v2.5

And some others I tried but deleted because they didnt work.
Maybe the thing that causes the problem is a file I stopped, I remember I've done by a tutorial instruction to how to make the computer faster and smoother and I had to stop a few files from lunching at start, maybe its one of them?
As far as I can tell its suppose to be a lot easier, install patcher, restart, add themes to folder and just lunch.
*by the way, each time I download a theme I get a "System Files" folder, any idea what that is?

 

[carwiz]

What's an install patcher? You shouldn't have to do anything except download the file, right click it then choose install. Windows will install the theme then you can right click on the desktop, click on Personalize and choose the theme and colors you want. You shouldn't need any install patch and I would be leery about any file that requires it.

 

[edstalker]

by saying install patcher I mean running the Universal Patcher Theme, then it has three choices, I and patch option the right, I patch all three of them, then restart computer.

 

[carwiz]

If you have to patch a Windows system driver to make a theme work and it doesn't, I suspect there's a problem with the theme or the patch. You may want to take that up with the provider of the theme. I'll put in a request for someone to look in on this. Perhaps they can help.

 

[derekimo]

First, I would start with this,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

Let us know what the outcome was, did it find and fix files.

Since we are dealing with visual themes here, it would help if you posted screenshots of what you get when applying the themes,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

Personally, I'm not a fan of the theme patcher method although it should still work. I use this method,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/34579-enabling-custom-themes-windows-7-a.html

Which only installs a service to allow third party themes.

I'll give those themes you linked a try to see if they work for me.

 

[Stephanie]

Hi

The first link is to a 7-Zip Download (7-Zip requires a special loader) and all the 7-zips I have are full teams not a desktop skin , you dont unzip 7-zip the loader does that for you

Mine





And my theme (Zero G)

 

[derekimo]

I just tried both those themes,



I didn't change explorer for the start button, but it works.

Here's the other one,



I didn't change the other parts but the themes work.

 

[derekimo]

Hi

The first link is to a 7-Zip Download (7-Zip requires a special loader) and all the 7-zips I have are full teams not a desktop skin , you dont unzip 7-zip the loader does that for you

Mine

View attachment 316892

View attachment 316893

And my theme (Zero G)

I don't see a link Stephanie, will that work with the themes the OP posted?

Lucid for Win 7 by nopd11 on deviantART

Alternative AE for Windows 7 by oliver182 on deviantART

 

[Stephanie]

Hi

The first link is to a 7-Zip Download (7-Zip requires a special loader) and all the 7-zips I have are full teams not a desktop skin , you dont unzip 7-zip the loader does that for you

Mine

View attachment 316892

View attachment 316893

And my theme (Zero G)

I don't see a link Stephanie, will that work with the themes the OP posted?

Lucid for Win 7 by nopd11 on deviantART

Alternative AE for Windows 7 by oliver182 on deviantART

I did not post the 7tsp_GUI because its on another forum and have to be logged in to access it but I will send you a PM edstalker