changing vista theme

[iMav]

i downnloaded a theme it has a shellstyle.dll file i patched my 3 iles in vista and replaced shellstyle restarted explorer.exe no change and no option to select the theme

*bump*

[Vishal Gupta]

"shellstyle.dll" file will replace only the "Details Pane" and "new Toolbar" in explorer. Are u sure that this file contains different look for them?

And the theme will appear only when u'll add a msstyles file in "Themes" folder.

[iMav]

well i downloaded a pack ... it contains:

2 folders:

1. en-US which contains aero.msstyles.mui
2. shell which contains NormalColor folder in which there is shellstyle.dll and another en-US folder which again has aero.msstyles.mui

and in the root there is aeroclear.msstyles


iv copied the .mui file in en-US under shell32
iv copied the shellstyles file in system32 (replaced)
and the msstyles file is in resources/themes

par kuch nahi ho raha ....

[Vishal Gupta]

Buddy u hv to place all files in "%windir%\Resources\Themes" folder.

Suppose u downloaded a folder named "Aero Clear", then copy the full folder to "Themes" folder. Thats it.

[iMav]

i did that and nothing happend ... and then i copied the files

vishal ... i downloaded another theme this time it had a .theme file ... i copied it to the themes folders but in my personalisation option under theme there is another entry of windows vista with same settings as that of the default vista theme

finally got the bloody thing to work .. i just replaced the aero (default) folder with the theme i wanted ... renaming files

[Vishal Gupta]

Yeah whenever u copy another theme, u'll get double entries for "Aero" and "basic" in Personalization.
But one entry will be for Default theme and one entry for 3rd party theme.