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Posted 8/1/2003 9:52 AM


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I have style xp for my windows desktop theme.


After setting up all of it, and get my theme done, but suddently after restart, everything change to normal althought the style xp is enable. Whats seem to be the problem?



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One solution may be to right clik My Computer > properties > advanced tab > under performance, click settings.



On the list that shows up, the bottom box should say "use visual styles on windows and buttons". If this is unchecked, then windows might be ignoring whatever theme/VS you have selected.



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chaf3d...


well it is checked.. and still my style xp not working. how come?



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- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -

Fujitsu LifeBook C2210

P.4/1.8Ghz

Microsoft Windows XP Home

ATI RADEON™ IGP340M

256MB DDR266

30GB

14.1" XGA TFT

CD-R/RW

SD/MS Slot

IrDA1.1
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This same problem used to happen to me on my laptop back when I used StyleXP. I never did find a solution to fix it, but luckily that was around the time that the "uxtheme patch" started circulating around the net. My advice to you would be to get rid of StyleXP and download the patch. Here's a link to one of the patches:



uxtheme patch



Follow the instructions when running it (pay close attention to instruction #6). What this patch does, is replace the uxtheme.dll system file with an altered one. That way you can install and use all themes and styles that you'd use with StyleXP (without actually having to use StyleXP).


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It is better to use the patch especially if you have Perfect Disk. I cannot do an offline defrag with StyleXP installed. I tried everything. Uninstall StyleXP and it works "Perfect", lol.

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Style XP might have expired...


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Is the "Style XP Service" enabled?






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It should  start on start-up , check  msconfig if its there
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