I ran into obscure problem. I am preparing an image and I want Aero to be enabled, but when I boot into audit mode in VM, Aero is not functional and I can't customize the theme, because the virtual graphic card is some sort of generic crap. What shall I do? Basically I want full Aero, but with no sounds and solid desktop background.

Aero is disabled in Audit Mode even if you have video drivers installed. You can enable it and create a theme, however this theme will be saved into the Administrator account and you won't see it after sysprep. To use your theme elsewhere, look into creating a ThemePack or even a Theme from scratch:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-to-Make-Your-Own-Theme-Pack-for-Windows-7

Even with copyprofile setting?

Even with copyprofile setting?

I've never used that setting. I'm not sure how you can disable sounds, but you could specify a desktop background image that is a solid color square. Windows should stretch it.

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Even with copyprofile setting?

The VMWARE graphic card driver is hidden in windows.iso which is located in "H:\VMware Workstation\Windows.ISO". If you are able to extract it some how [it is possible ! I did it !] then integrate the driver into windows 7 offline image. Use this "Theme_Load.vbs"

=============== Theme_Load.VBS ===========================================================================================

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set WinDir = objFileSystem.GetSpecialFolder(WindowsFolder)

currentDIR = Shell.CurrentDirectory

objFileSystem.FileExists(WinDIR & "\System32\oobe\info\THEME.theme") then

Shell.Run "rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /File:""%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\Vagia's G.THEME"""

Wscript.Sleep 1600

Shell.Sendkeys "%{F4}"

===========================================================================================================================

===================== Theme_Load.REG =======================================

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes]

"Drop Shadow"="FALSE"

"Flat Menus"="FALSE"

"SetupVersion"="10"

"InstallTheme"="C:\\Windows\\resources\\Themes\\Vagia's G.theme"

"InstallVisualStyle"="%ResourceDir%\\themes\\Vagia's G\\Vagia's G.msstyles"

===========================================================================

================ OOBE.CMD ===================================

CSCRIPT //NOLOGO %SYSTEMROOT%\SETUP\SCRIPTS\Theme_Load.vbs

REGEDIT /S "%SYSTEMROOT%\SETUP\SCRIPTS\Theme_Load.REG"

==============================================================

Hopefully it should work just like how it work for me !

AND DO NOT FORGET TO REPLACE PATCHED UXTHEME FILES WITH ORIGINAL FILES ! ELSE YOU ARE JUST GONNA MESS UP ! AND REPLACE Vagia's G with the theme name, Since i use this script for vista i used Vagia's G

Edited January 15, 20215 yr by Tripredacus