Missing color schemes

[CelticWhisper]

I've been busy customizing my nLited install of XP and have discovered, much to my dismay, that I am not able to alter the color scheme of the "Windows Classic" theme.

I usually set the colors to "Rainy Day" and do a few additional touchups, but the "Color Scheme" and "Font size" drop-down lists are empty, and the box at the top of the "Appearance" tab of the Display Properties dialog is blank with the words "Theme Preview" written across the centre.

Clicking the "Advanced" button also does nothing at all.

I can only conclude I'm stripping out something I shouldn't during my nLite trimming process. Any idea what it could be?

Thanks.

[strotee76]

Remove Components -> Operating System Options -> Color Schemes ??

[CelticWhisper]

That was my first suspicion, but the problem persists even when I leave that box unchecked.

Quite a bizarre problem, this...

[CelticWhisper]

Any other insight into what could be causing this? Clicking "OK" or "Apply" in the dialog results in a "Windows Classic theme not found" error. Possibly the .theme file is missing from the C:\WINDOWS directory?

[albator]

Dont remove things and then complain about their asbence

[nuhi]

"Clicking the "Advanced" button also does nothing at all."

This if I got it right means that your display settings are corrupted, possibly wrong DLL or something through addons.

[CelticWhisper]

Dont remove things and then complain about their asbence

But teacher, the barnacle was my FWIEEEEEND! Thing is, hadn't originally intended to remove the color schemes.

Nuhi-Quite possibly so. I ran a clean copy of XP through nLite with minimal slimming-down and after deleting all my previous saved settings and it looks to have done the trick. I'm going to try to substitute registry tweaks for some of the nLite settings and narrow down what the possibilities could have been.

Thanks for the help, everyone.