Solved Desktop, Taskbar, and Start button change mysteriously?

[Kuuhaku]

Usually when I click on my installed themes it's not in Window Classic theme but now it's like this

 

[bigmck]

Go into Control Panel under Personalization. Make sure you do not have "Windows Classic" checked. You can change your themes to anything you want from there.

 

[Kuuhaku]

Go into Control Panel under Personalization. Make sure you do not have "Windows Classic" checked. You can change your themes to anything you want from there.

What do you mean? Do you mean I go to Control Panel first and then click Personalization? If so, I don't see any
thing that can be checked or unchecked. It just bring up stuffs like My Themes, Aero Themes, Installed Themes, and Basic and High Contrast Themes.

 

[bigmck]

Go into Control Panel under Personalization. Make sure you do not have "Windows Classic" checked. You can change your themes to anything you want from there.

What do you mean? Do you mean I go to Control Panel first and then click Personalization? If so, I don't see any
thing that can be checked or unchecked. It just bring up stuffs like My Themes, Aero Themes, Installed Themes, and Basic and High Contrast Themes.

That is correct. That is where you change your themes. If you have "Windows Classic" marked as your theme, it will look just as yours does.

 

[andrew129260]

Choose windows 7 under aero themes. Then pick what color you want, screensaver etc. Then adjust your visual settings under control panel-system- performance information and tools-adjust visual effects. There you can decide what visual items you want to see.

The following are required to be enabled for aero:

-Desktop composition
-Use visual styles on windows and buttons
-Enable aero peek

 

[Kuuhaku]

Go into Control Panel under Personalization. Make sure you do not have "Windows Classic" checked. You can change your themes to anything you want from there.

What do you mean? Do you mean I go to Control Panel first and then click Personalization? If so, I don't see any
thing that can be checked or unchecked. It just bring up stuffs like My Themes, Aero Themes, Installed Themes, and Basic and High Contrast Themes.

That is correct. That is where you change your themes. If you have "Windows Classic" marked as your theme, it will look just as yours does.

That's not what I meant. My installed themes is usually in Windows Basic but now every time I click on my installed themes, it makes a new theme in My Themes area that's in Windows Classic or High Contrast.

 

[bigmck]

Are you saying that if you change your Theme to Windows Basic and shut off your PC that next time you boot the Theme will be in Windows Classic?

 

[Kuuhaku]

Are you saying that if you change your Theme to Windows Basic and shut off your PC that next time you boot the Theme will be in Windows Classic?

No. If I change it to Windows Basic then it stays at Windows Basic but if I click any of my Installed Themes, it automatically make a new theme under My Themes area that's in Window Classic

 

[andrew129260]

Are you using supported windows 7 themes? Some themes found online only work in vista or 8 which is why aero would not work.

Also, please look at post 5.

And if you choose windows 7 aero theme and reboot does it stay with that?

 

[Kuuhaku]

Are you using supported windows 7 themes? Some themes found online only work in vista or 8 which is why aero would not work.

Also, please look at post 5.

And if you choose windows 7 aero theme and reboot does it stay with that?

The theme i installed worked for all window 7. You mean I have to reboot after I pick Window Aero 7 theme?
Because even if I don't reboot my computer if i change the theme to Aero 7 theme it stays at Aero 7 theme but I don't like Aero 7 theme and want to use my installed theme.

 

[Kuuhaku]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVpfCMu55i4

It's in that video that I made if my explaining wasn't clear

 

[bigmck]

Are you saying that if you change your Theme to Windows Basic and shut off your PC that next time you boot the Theme will be in Windows Classic?

No. If I change it to Windows Basic then it stays at Windows Basic but if I click any of my Installed Themes, it automatically make a new theme under My Themes area that's in Window Classic

Has it always done this or is it something that just recently started?

 

[Slartybart]

I'm not sure I follow - it sounds as though Themes is working normally.

Any time you have a Theme installed / chosen and make a change, a new theme is created. You can save that theme or just run with it as a current theme. The only time it should save it is if you tell it to save the theme.

That's the whole idea behind themes - set it the way you want it, save for later, make changes and save it if you like the new one better.

You can if you choose, select a saved theme, switch back to the previous theme (top area of themes), right click and delete the saved theme that was loaded when you selected the saved theme. You cannot delete the active theme, so you have to switch.

If I'm not reading the issue correctly, you might want to look at
Personalize > Change Desktop icons
and untick the Allow themes to change desktop icons

But I think your question is about more just desktop icons.

 

[Kuuhaku]

Are you saying that if you change your Theme to Windows Basic and shut off your PC that next time you boot the Theme will be in Windows Classic?

No. If I change it to Windows Basic then it stays at Windows Basic but if I click any of my Installed Themes, it automatically make a new theme under My Themes area that's in Window Classic

Has it always done this or is it something that just recently started?

It just recently started. I'm sorry to reply so late because I have something to do

 

[Ranger4]

I'm not sure I follow - it sounds as though Themes is working normally.

Any time you have a Theme installed / chosen and make a change, a new theme is created. You can save that theme or just run with it as a current theme. The only time it should save it is if you tell it to save the theme.

That's the whole idea behind themes - set it the way you want it, save for later, make changes and save it if you like the new one better.

You can if you choose, select a saved theme, switch back to the previous theme (top area of themes), right click and delete the saved theme that was loaded when you selected the saved theme. You cannot delete the active theme, so you have to switch.

If I'm not reading the issue correctly, you might want to look at
Personalize > Change Desktop icons
and untick the Allow themes to change desktop icons

But I think your question is about more just desktop icons.

This is exactly what mine does. If you want to change themes then you need to select the theme you want & save it with a name. If you want to go back to an old saved theme you can. All your saved themes need to be in "My Themes".

 

[bigmck]

Has it always done this or is it something that just recently started?

It just recently started. I'm sorry to reply so late because I have something to do

You need to try a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html This will put your computer as it was. Do a Restore to a date before you had the problem and you will be good.

 

[Kuuhaku]

Has it always done this or is it something that just recently started?

It just recently started. I'm sorry to reply so late because I have something to do

You need to try a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html This will put your computer as it was. Do a Restore to a date before you had the problem and you will be good.

When I go to system restore nothing comes up except for the date 2 days ago and the problem starts at June 10

 

[bigmck]

The System Restore can't help this time, but in the future manually made a Restore Point once a week and you will always have one. == Read Message #15.

 

[Kuuhaku]

I'll just mark this as solved