setting the themes and wallpapers

[maxamoto]

do i need to rename the applytheme.exe to applytheme royal.exe or what??

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Without Quotes, run this from a cmd prompt or a batch file:

"ApplyTheme.exe Royale"

Edited July 19, 2005 by maxamoto

[raduking]

tested doesn't work either

it's even worse:

if I apply the visual style by hand everything is fine

but when I try to apply it with ApplyTheme it reverts it back

to the wrong way of showing the theme (from my first post in this thread)

[maniaq]

tested doesn't work either

it's even worse:

if I apply the visual style by hand everything is fine

but when I try to apply it with ApplyTheme it reverts it back

to the wrong way of showing the theme (from my first post in this thread)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

the same thing happened to me, yu need to install the theme before using applytheme, use this reg:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]
"LoadedBefore"="1"
"LMVersion"="103"
"LMOverRide"="1"
"ThemeActive"="1"
"DllName"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
  74,00,25,00,5c,00,52,00,65,00,73,00,6f,00,75,00,72,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,5c,\
  00,74,00,68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,4c,00,75,00,6e,00,61,00,5c,00,\
  4c,00,75,00,6e,00,61,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,73,00,74,00,79,00,6c,00,65,00,73,\
  00,00,00

this is for royale theme, yu could manualy get the reg from your own windows.....

as for applytheme.exe ...i can put and run it from where ever i want, right?

Edited July 20, 2005 by maniaq

[raduking]

I tried this also...

doesn't work

as a matter of fact this was the way I was doing it in the first place before asking here

[oioldman]

Why not apply your theme via the winnt.sif file during your install?

I and many do it this with create success, if you search for RoyaleTheme you'll get many results but is the correct one.

Can't add more as at work and can't remember it all of top of head.

[maniaq]

hey guys, great news, i have found the problem on my first post, it was the theme_name.theme file fault

here take a look of mine royal.theme file

; Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1995-2004

[Theme]
DisplayName=Energy Blue

; My Computer
[CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
DefaultValue=%windir%explorer.exe,0

; My Documents
[CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon]
DefaultValue=%windir%SYSTEM32\mydocs.dll,0

; My Network Places
[CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
DefaultValue=%windir%SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,17

; Recycle Bin
[CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]
full=%windir%SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,32
empty=%windir%SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,31


[Control Panel\Cursors]
Arrow=
Help=
AppStarting=
Wait=
NWPen=
No=
SizeNS=
SizeWE=
Crosshair=
IBeam=
SizeNWSE=
SizeNESW=
SizeAll=
UpArrow=
DefaultValue=Windows default
Link=

[Control Panel\Desktop]
Wallpaper=%WinDir%Resources\Themes\Royalmod\maniaq.jpg
TileWallpaper=0
WallpaperStyle=2
Pattern=
ScreenSaveActive=0

[boot]
SCRNSAVE.EXE=


[MasterThemeSelector]
MTSM=DABJDKT
ThemeColorBPP=4


[VisualStyles]
Path=%WinDir%resources\Themes\RoyalMod\RoyalMod.msstyles
ColorStyle=Midnight
Size=NormalSize

just reenter: wallpaper,the path, color style and size, nothing more is needed then it works fine and save it as your_theme_name.theme file and run it when ever yu want and from where ever yu want...havent tested it fully but it is working

going to test it over winnt.sif.....

[maxamoto]

I tried this also...

doesn't work

as a matter of fact this was the way I was doing it in the first place before asking here

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Strange that ApplyTheme.exe does not work for you. I use it in my install.bat (called from winnt.sif), and that's the only thing I use. I've never had to resort to a reghack or any other method...

Edited July 21, 2005 by maxamoto

[maniaq]

I tried this also...

doesn't work

as a matter of fact this was the way I was doing it in the first place before asking here

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Strange that ApplyTheme.exe does not work for you. I use it in my install.bat (called from winnt.sif), and that's the only thing I use. I've never had to resort to a reghack or any other method...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

it worked but the problem was in my royal.theme file

[raduking]

I mean it works but it doesn't apply the theme correctly...

same as I explained in my beginning post... the menus nly look right if I reapply the visual style manually

[maniaq]

I mean it works but it doesn't apply the theme correctly...

same as I explained in my beginning post... the menus nly look right if I reapply the visual style manually

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hmmm, it applies the theme fully for me.....this time.....

[raduking]

i figured out what was the problem:

if you specify:

[Metrics]
IconMetrics=76 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 245 255 255 255 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 84 97 104 111 109 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  
NonclientMetrics=84 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 245 255 255 255 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 188 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 84 97 104 111 109 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 245 255 255 255 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 188 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 84 97 104 111 109 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 245 255 255 255 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 84 97 104 111 109 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 245 255 255 255 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 84 97 104 111 109 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 245 255 255 255 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 84 97 104 111 109 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

in your theme file the theme won't be applied correctly...

what I did is I modified the theme and then saved that .theme file for my unattended install because I like the scrollbar to be the size of 13 not 17 as default...

it looks like it doesn't work well...