UxStyle " your theme subsystem has been tampered with"

[Gutso]

Hello all.
I am on a fresh installation of windows 7 ultimate x64 and for some reason I cannot get this to install.
it gives me the above error when I run it "your theme subsystem has been tampered with", I am using the correct version for windows 7 "UxStyle_Core_jul13_bits.zip"



I have done some searching and reading around and the widely accepted fix for this is to run sfc/scannow as admin.
But when I do that, the scan completes and says "Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations"



and the same goes for scanning the files individually with scf /scanfile for
uxtheme.dll
themeservice.dll
themeui.dll


says no problems were found

 

[failsandwich]

Having a similar problem, except my install isn't really "fresh" (I did install UltraUXThemePatcher, but it caused some issues with switching accounts so I uninstalled it). I did SFC /SCANNOW, SFC /VERIFYFILE and SFC /SCANFILE for each of the files in question, and rebooted several times, but nope. Nothing worked. I don't want to have to use something that modifies my system files because I kinda have to use other accounts sometimes. Please, someone help!

 

[elevenseven]

Hi! To fix "your theme subsystem has been tampered with", you need:

- unpack UxStyle_Core_Jul13_x64.msi manually
to unpack, you can run command

msiexec /a [B]d:\UxStyle_Core_Jul13_x64.msi[/B] /qb TARGETDIR=[B]d:\UxStyle[/B]

- copy file uxpatch.sys to C:\Windows\System32\drivers (or C:\Windows\sysnative\drivers)
- copy file UnsignedThemesSvc.exe to c:\Windows
- apply this reg file
to apply this reg file, you need to run it as RUN AS SYSTEM, not the run as Administrator
please search in google "How to Run a Program as SYSTEM"

- reboot

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\UnsignedThemes]
"DependOnService"=hex(7):54,00,68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,73,00,00,00,00,00
"Group"="ProfSvc_Group"
"Type"=dword:00000010
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,\
  5c,00,55,00,6e,00,73,00,69,00,67,00,6e,00,65,00,64,00,54,00,68,00,65,00,6d,\
  00,65,00,73,00,53,00,76,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Unsigned Themes"
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"Description"="Enables the use of unsigned themes."

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\UnsignedThemes]
@="Service"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\UnsignedThemes]
@="Service"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\uxpatch]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):5c,00,3f,00,3f,00,5c,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,\
  64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,\
  00,5c,00,64,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,75,00,78,00,70,00,\
  61,00,74,00,63,00,68,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"Group"="File System"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\uxpatch\Parameters]
"EnableLogging"=dword:00000000
"LogFile"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\uxpatch\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_UXPATCH\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_UXPATCH]
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_UXPATCH\0000]
"Service"="uxpatch"
"Legacy"=dword:00000001
"ConfigFlags"=dword:00000000
"Class"="LegacyDriver"
"ClassGUID"="{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1}"
"DeviceDesc"="uxpatch"
"Capabilities"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_UXPATCH\0000\Control]
"ActiveService"="uxpatch"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{76F9ABD8-2CB5-4D55-B2DD-1082752E0D32}]
"Class"="uxpatch"
"NoDisplayClass"="1"
"NoUseClass"="1"

 

[file3456]

To run regedit the easy way via a system level user, I use the now apparently defunct program runassystem. There's another at Sourceforge from I think Microsoft, but that adds a right click menu option to run something as system.

Just direct runassystem to regedit.exe in the system32 or sysWOW64 folder. Launch and now regedit is running with system level permissions.