Cannot change themes in Windows XP

[Ctrianjali]

I can not change themes in my XP. This is likely because "Themes" does not exist as a service. I wonder why "Themes" is not under Services in administration. Is it possible to add this again?

[Isaac1]

Windows is by default a barrier against other themes than they produced and approved by microsoft, which is more than a few of them in addition to 2, which comes with XP. To get around this, you need to freeze the so-called UXtheme-patch. You can find the link below!
http://winprj.net/board/viewtopic.ph...84ab888c#p1849

Edit:
For the windows will not eliminate the patch so it must be closed for "Windows file protection" temporary, while starting on the bottle, after driving patch!

[Jimmy24]

Strange. Themes to be available as a service.

Test windows update.

Do not know how to add a new service, but the properties is the path to it. C: \ WINDOWS \ System32 \ Svchost.exe

The theme is sound, wallpaper, icons, the visual, etc. And just Visuals are appearance of all windows, taskbar and stuff. As we got to get with fx uxpatchen

[Gusgr8]

Come on another idea

Browse to C: \ Windows \ resources \ themes

Click Luna.theme

[need Tos]

Tested clicking Luna.theme

Got the following error message:
The theme could not be loaded because the theme service is not running. You can start the service in the Administration Tool Computer Management in Control Panel.

[FlashX]

A thing you can test!

Start a command prompt as administrator (type "cmd" in the Run, and press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Enter]). In the command window, type or paste "sc config themes start = auto", and press [Enter]. Close command prompt and reboot the box, then you can check on Themes if started.

Edit:
Pay attention to what you get for answers, in the command window when you run the command .... it should be kind "[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESSFUL" If it does not, then please write down what it says instead!

[Ctrianjali]

I tried to enter sc config themes ... in the command window, but must answer the following message:
Stated service is not installed.

So the problem persists, the service is not even as options under the list of services in administraions.

Thank you anyway for your responses and please continue and help me!

Am very tired of Windows classic theme ..........

[Jimmy24]

Are you quite sure that Themes are not in service?

You could test with a new account otherwise.

[XDRoX]

Run this:

regsvr32 "% System Root% \ System32 \ shsvcs.dll"

and restart.

Hope this will work for you

[Ctrianjali]

Run this:

and restart.

Hope this will work for you

Thank you very much for your help!!
Your trick succeeded and now it works great!

[zarq]

Run this:

and restart.

Hope this will work for you

i hve this error

[Enriquee]

If you want this issue to get fixed i would advice you to re-register the files that are mentioned below once again on your system.

• Softpub.dll
• Wintrust.dll
• Initpki.dll
• Dssenh.dll
• Rsaenh.dll
• Gpkcsp.dll
• Sccbase.dll
• Slbcsp.dll
• Mssip32.dll
• Cryptdlg.dll

To re-register the .dll files. Follow the below mentioned steps.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK.
3. At the command prompt, typeregsvr32 x, (Replace x by the dll files listed above) and then press ENTER after each line
4. Type exit.

[justinepeter]

To resolve this problem, start the Themes service. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK.
2. In the list of services, right-click Themes, and then click Properties.
3. On the General tab, click Automatic in the Startup type list.
4. On the General tab, click Start under Service status, and then click OK.
5. Exit Services.