If you ever downloaded windows 7 theme directly from Microsoft, you must be knowing that the theme’s file extension is .themepack. But 3rd party windows 7 themes has the file extension .theme and usually comes with a whole folder of files. For installing 3rd party or unsigned themes windows7 themes you will have to patch three dll files
– uxtheme.dll, themeui.dll and themeservice.dll.
so lets see how you can patch these files.
Its always a good to take a Backup, before editing or modifying any thing. To take backup goto “system32″ folder
(C:\Windows\system32\)and backup the following 3 dll files:
uxtheme.dll
themeui.dll
themeservice.dll
Once you backup all the above files, follow the steps given below:
# 1
Download ‘UXStyle Core‘
and install it. This software will create a new process called “UnsignedThemesSvc.exe” that will be running in the background and will allow you to run 3rd-party themes.
# 2. Download and Install ‘Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package’.
Download for:
Windows x64 | Windows7 x86.
# 3. After Installing both the files, reboot your PC.
# 4. Changing Windows Explorer: You can also change the Start Button, to do so you need to download start button changer.
# 5. Now to install 3rd party themes, you have to copy the complete folder of the theme that you downloaded to
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes.Look This -> Themes For Windows7
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