johnos

cheers mate allready modded it with nlite so now its time for the harder stuff (and the interesting stuff)

my Winxp soruce folder (that i have nlited) has no $OEM$ folder and the original source doesnt have one either so it wasnt nlite that removed it. should i just right click> create folder and call it $OEM$ and then create the folders i need inside it in the same way or is their some special way i have to do it so windows reconises the folder? sorry if i sound ignorant its just that i want to double check because i dont want to have to redo anything cheers guys

dont worry ive gotten it figured out cheers guys

i patched my system, everything seems to be fine it just that to get the themes that are .msstyles files (all of them except for the orginal Luna and Classic themes) to work i cant just go into display properties and select them from the drop down menu, i have to double click them (i know its so hard to do) i was under the impression that windows would see them as a normal theme file and i could change them around like that also when i opened the Neowin patcher again to see if the backup thing was available (while troubleshooting this problem) it had no backup option, it just had install patch again im kinda confused so any help would be appreciated

sweet thanks alot mate i just had to make sure everything wouldnt go horribly wrong thanks again

allrighty then recently i have been mucking around with winxp alot using installs under VMware Workstation so i dont screw anything up. and whenever ive had a problem i often tend to reinstall/create a new version under nlite and install because i dont have to worry about any problems it might cause. and after doing a bit of mucking around with visual styles recently i have gotten extremely bored with the windows XP look and im thinking about patching the UXTHEME.dll i hate windows blinds, it takes up too many resources and is slow and i want to be able to do everything without going thru a third party app so ive come to the conclusion that i need to patch my UXTHEME.dll ive read thru a few guides and read about what it does except because it would be disasterous if anything happened to the computer i find myself having to ask is there any chance that it will make the computer un-bootable. coz that would suck and i would be in a heap of trouble i know that if i can boot the computer into safe mode all i have to do is delete the patched UXTHEME and put the backup up original back in place and everything (hopefully) will be hooley dooley can i get any insight into this because otherwise i dont think i can afford to take the risk