I have Enabling Themes but not jet instal any themes i wound like to no what is the best way to get the best Performance with themes Manual Installation or Automatic Installation ?

Edited June 19, 200521 yr by the-matrix

Pl someone tell me how to enable themes services in win2003 in unattended mode. it is disabled by default. i added a theme in my unatttended winnt.sif, but its not showing coz themes service is disabled. ive to manually turn it to automatic and select the installed theme. pl tell me otherthan nlite method coz i already have a fully packed unattended source and Im worried abt the driverpacks and otherthings get spoiled.

You need to patch the dll of the theme. If you use the search button you can find the guide to it.

Patching is for installing unsigned themes. but i wanted the themes service itself to start automatically during unattended install.

Gyah, I'm completely new to the terminoligy. I just followed the directions in the guide and everything works.

Patching is for installing unsigned themes. but i wanted the themes service itself to start automatically during unattended install.

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You can put the following in your cmdlines.txt:

"net start Themes"

thank u gamehead200 for this new way of starting themes. i was only thinking of using the registry. i would try this today.