Accidentally disabled standard theme?

[mas0212]

I just completed my first unattended WinXP Pro installation. Windows boots into the Classic theme, and when I try to switch to the WinXP standard Luna theme in the Display Properties dialog, nothing happens. I've checked the Services manager and the Themes service is running. I've also tried browsing directly to the Luna.theme file in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and that doesn't work either.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[bonestonne]

while you created the unattended install, did you remove the theme? or disable changing it or anything like that? thats the only thing i can think of that would cause that...i stopped using the luna theme a long time ago because after a while i just stopped liking its looks, so i'd remove it while creating the unattended install, so thats the only thing that i can see causing it.

[mas0212]

I don't think so -- at least, I didn't mean to. What settings do you change to remove the theme or disable changing themes?

[bonestonne]

you'd have to remove or disable linking to the luna desktop theme file...not entirely sure how to do it by hand though. i don't think you'd have to reinstall it, i mean, if you had a lot of free time, you could try finding the luna theme on the install CD, replacing the one on your computer, restarting, and then seeing if it worked, but you'd have to be using the original CD, not the slipstreamed one. on top of that, the chances of that actually working are slim, because it could be a change in how it links not if it can link at all..

[mas0212]

Figured it out -- somehow the luna.msstyles file got renamed to luna.mst. I looked in luna.theme and discovered it was looking for a luna.msstyles file, renamed luna.mst to luna.msstyles, and everything worked.