Classic Skin Won't Work

[ClericX]

Hey guys,

I have a problem, as it says in the title. For some reason, my windows classic skin will not work at all when I try to switch to it.

I'll go into Personalization, select Windows Classic, and then after my screen greying for a little while, the taskbar kind of changes to classic, and then windows like screws up and it goes to back to aero in some light blue-ish color.

This is really annoying as sometimes I like to use the classic skin and now I cant.

I'm running Windows 7 RC 1 Build 7100 atm, and if it helps I did an upgrade from Windows 7 Beta Build 7000.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Brink]

Hello ClericX,

It may be from some upgrade issue. You might see if doing a clean install instead may work better for you.

Sorry,
Shawn

 

[ClericX]

I understand what you're saying, but a clean install means I lose all my data and that's pretty annoying to do, do you think a system repair might fix it?

 

[Dragor1]

Nope! MS even recommended a clean install for the RC.

Sorry, you cant get this solved without a clean install!

It would be hellishly painful to solve a problem that's related to upgrading I guess!

 

[ClericX]

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Well, that sucks. I guess I'll just live with it then.

Thanks guys.

 

[Brink]

Cleric,

You can give a Repair install a try to see if it may fix it without losing anything, but most likely it will take a clean install.

Hope it works for you.

 

[ClericX]

Thanks for the advice. Right now it's not bothering me to the point that I'm ready to wait out another 1 ~ 2 hour upgrade and lose some settings, but if it gets to that point it's nice to know there's something I can do.

 

[ClericX]

Wow...

Well, it finally bothered me enough that I tried a repair...

And guess what... It didn't work >.< I still can't use classic. The best I can do is disable the themes service when I want classic, and that classic doesn't even look exactly like the themed classic... I guess I'll wait for a new build to come out.

 

[Brink]

Sorry to hear that ClericX. It looks like you may need a clean install instead to fix it.

 

[ClericX]

For now, I'll have to live with disabling the themes service when I want a classic skin, until a new build comes out or something and that build may fix the problem.

 

[Brink]

Well, the Windows 7 7127 build is now out on torrents. Google is your friend.

 

[xJason]

No, dude, what you need to do is this:

My Computer (properties)>Advanced System Settings>Advanced Tab>Performance>settings. Then select best performance.

 

[ClericX]

Thanks, but I don't download those leaked builds, there are leaks like weekly, I'm not wasting all my bandwidth downloading win 7 20 times over with a few builds higher each time.

@xJason - Uh, I don't think you got my problem. That wouldn't solve it.

 

[xJason]

@ClericX - What do you mean? are you trying to change it to classic? If so, yes, thats the best way.

 

[ClericX]

I'm not trying to change the effects to classic, I'm trying to change the visual style to classic.... Which doesn't seem to work, it just reverts to aero.. ><

 

[Lee]

ClericX - xJason is giving you the easy to do what you want. I hadn't thought about doing this way until he indicated the easy way of changing to the classic mode. Just did it and it worked fine; although not sure why you want to be in classic mode (forget had awful it looked...sorry).

 

[ClericX]

OMG WOOOOOOT!

Thx so much xJason x3!

I actually tried it and i made my skin classic, perfect!

I'm not sure why I can't just click classic skin in the theme changing interface, but this will do until I can fix it somehow.

Thanks guys.