Issues with themes after using TDSSKiller

Hello, I am new to these forums just asking for a bit of help here.

I am on Windows 7.

A few months ago, I ran a scan with Kaspersky's anti-rootkit program, TDSSKiller. It worked well, but I think it deleted my themeservice.dll file. As a result of this, I am stuck in Windows classic mode (Not to be confused with Windows basic). When I go to my themes in personalize, everything except the classic ones are blocked.


I've tried scanning, making use of my backup .dll, downloading new themes, yet none of them have worked.

The Desktop Window Manager Session Manager and Themes Services need to be set to Start and Automatic.

You must be have True Color (32 bit) set instead of High Color (16 bit).

The desktop composition and Animate controls and elements inside windows options enabled in Visual Effects.

Still not working?

You could do a repair install

Hope this helps.

John

johnsmith45jock said:

The Desktop Window Manager Session Manager and Themes Services need to be set to Start and Automatic.

You must be have True Color (32 bit) set instead of High Color (16 bit).

The desktop composition and Animate controls and elements inside windows options enabled in Visual Effects.

Still not working?

You could do a repair install

Hope this helps.

John

Thanks for the post.

The theme service doesn't seen to show up in the list when I follow that guide. Visual effects changing doesn't seem to work either.

A repair install might work, but that is kind of the last thing I'd want to do.