Hopefully someone has an answer here. I am having this problem with unattended install and themes. The install goes fine. It does load the theme that I chose, however, the style is not active. The taskbar and explorer windows take on the clasic windows style and not the theme's style.. Even if I change it in properties the style does not carry over... Any suggestions...

are you using a patched UXTHEME.DLL? Visual styles will not work without it. Or are you trying to apply Blue, Silver or Homestead which are included with XP ?

I actually got it to work.. I forgot to patch the uxtheme file.. all good now..