i was wondering if there was a way to see if the neowin patch is applied to your computer. And not just by choosing a random theme and seeing if it works because one of my themes that isnt from microsoft works on my computer but the rest dont, and this theme only started to work when i first patched my computer, but now nothing else works

Find out what neowin patch exactly changes and patches, then you can make a program or whatever to see if those specific patches are applied or not.

hmm its a good idea, although i dont noe how to make programs or scripts or anything...

the "neowin patch" changes a DLL on your computer (it is somewhere in the Windows folder).  It won't hurt to use the manual method of replacing the DLL (you can find instructions using google) and the patcher of Neowin's might also work, it depends how they do it, I suggest the manual option however.

If all fails, check that other people can use the themes and that they are for your version of windows as there are more and more for Vista coming out and not just XP ones.

thanks thats also a good idea, right now tho its a bit late for that lol