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O.P. Windows XP theme not working properly
Some while ago after starting my computer Windows XP theme was broken. Then i switched to Classic one, which worked very well till now. Nowhalf of the screen is black, buttons are hard to see and so on. Take a look at the picture to get an overview.

Any ideas how to solve it?

Theme service is switched on. No theme modifier program is installed (WindowBlinds etc...).

This post was edited on 07-02-2007 at 05:14 PM by rix.
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RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
I see nothing wrong with that picture. Just plain old classic theme :-/
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O.P. RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
Not exactly. Windows Xp Theme is select4ed and apply button is pressed. And look at the Start button also. Classic theme has a slightly different button.
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RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
try restarting the themes service?
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O.P. RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
Nope, still no luck.

Here are the pictures how the XP theme looks like now:
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RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
Slap me with a fish if I missed something, but, I think it's your monitor. Cause if you check the first screenshot on another computer, the black box doesn't appear...

Edit: Also, Disturbed are pretty damned good. :p

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RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
Right Click on My Computer and go Properties > Advanced System Settings > Advanced Tab > Settings ( In Performance ) > Visual Effects.

Are they all unticked..? Just a random guess. And I was following Vista so it could be a little different to yours.

Edit: Oh I never saw all that black shit.. Can you use any other theme..? Try downloading the theme again. It looks like its faulty (as this has happened when I tried to install a theme and half the files were missing)


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O.P. RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
Dunno, what the real cause was. I went for System restore, after what Windows didn't start at all.

So here i am with clean installation of Windows. No problems... yet. :P
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I went for System restore, after what Windows didn't start at all.

TReKiE is an advocate of System Restore. I don't know why, it never works and should never be trusted. :p
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RE: Windows XP theme not working properly
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And look at the Start button also. Classic theme has a slightly different button.

Not in XP it doesn't. Look at Vista's Classic theme. Start button's icon is the Vista logo. Same deal here.
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