Shoutbox

does any one have SP2 installed and style XP ???

the problem is that my computer is now broken. when i start my computer its gets to the part where it should say windows home loading (with the bar sliding underneath) and then just restarts.  the same happens over and over again.  and the only thing that i can think i have done lately was reinstall style xp after installling SP 2.

so i was wondering 3 things.
firstly- is anyone running both thing and has the same problem ?
secondly- do u think that the problem is something else ?
thirdly- can anyone thing of a way of fixing this ? or will i have to install xp again

I think you'll have to reinstall your windows... but if you want to use visual styles with SP2 use the SP2 UXTheme DLL Patcher

well i have reinstalled xp on my computer now, but insted of replacing the old files, i installed it again. so have now got 2 os's. so i was wondering could i fix the older XP ?
if not how do i delete it, now that i have got all my files i need from my documents ?

insert the xp installation disk in your disk drive and choose Repair instead of Install

repair didn't work

how do i uninstall the older version ?

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Originally posted by toddy
how do i uninstall the older version ?

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  Have you got a Program like partition Magic?  i assume you wanna delete the older WindowsXP install yeah?  im pretty sure partition Magic or some similiar program will remove the older windowsXP partition

no it doesn't seem to, well i couldn't see anyway to do it

I believe that its caused by the new function in windows... instead of that system file restore thingo.. which used to ask you to insert the windows cd when a core file was changed (uxtheme.dll) it now simply puts the original file back without any prompts or cues... i had problems trying to install the old uxtheme.dll patch because it kept replacing the original.. so i guess the problem is stylexp loads up expecting a hacked uxtheme.dll when it doesn't it crashes the computer and reboots it.... the only thing to do is to replace the uxtheme.dll with a patched one... this should fix the dramas hopefully... rolandos website has the hacked uxtheme.dll if you can't find it