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Problem maintaining a desktop theme after reboot
Win XP Home. Second hand refurbished Dell desktop machine, just bought
for a second family machine, with a new DELL OEM XP Home installation. I have been setting it up with some basic apps for the other members of the family. Two other users and me with an administrator account (in addition to the default administrator) I am setting up things via the Administrator account, and have run into a problem with trying to set up a desktop/Theme using the Windows XP appearance and a customised wallpaper. The theme survives logoff and logon but if I do a cold reboot, then it reverts to the old Windows "classic theme" with grey menu bars etc. which I don't want. I have tried saving my theme as a named theme but that doesn't prevent it disappearing on reboot. If I turn off Themes in Services, then I get Windows Classic anyway which I don't want. How can I make my desired XP theme stick past a reboot please? I want to be able to have the XP appearance and a customised wallpaper, different wallpaper for each user. I've been using XP for a while on my main machine which I use for work, and never seen this problem. All help appreciated, thanks in advance. -- Robert |
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Problem maintaining a desktop theme after reboot
Is themes set to automatic in services?
"Robert M Jones" wrote in message ... Win XP Home. Second hand refurbished Dell desktop machine, just bought for a second family machine, with a new DELL OEM XP Home installation. I have been setting it up with some basic apps for the other members of the family. Two other users and me with an administrator account (in addition to the default administrator) I am setting up things via the Administrator account, and have run into a problem with trying to set up a desktop/Theme using the Windows XP appearance and a customised wallpaper. The theme survives logoff and logon but if I do a cold reboot, then it reverts to the old Windows "classic theme" with grey menu bars etc. which I don't want. I have tried saving my theme as a named theme but that doesn't prevent it disappearing on reboot. If I turn off Themes in Services, then I get Windows Classic anyway which I don't want. How can I make my desired XP theme stick past a reboot please? I want to be able to have the XP appearance and a customised wallpaper, different wallpaper for each user. I've been using XP for a while on my main machine which I use for work, and never seen this problem. All help appreciated, thanks in advance. -- Robert |
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Problem maintaining a desktop theme after reboot
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Is themes set to automatic in services? "Robert M Jones" wrote in message ... Win XP Home. Second hand refurbished Dell desktop machine, just bought for a second family machine, with a new DELL OEM XP Home installation. I have been setting it up with some basic apps for the other members of the family. Two other users and me with an administrator account (in addition to the default administrator) I am setting up things via the Administrator account, and have run into a problem with trying to set up a desktop/Theme using the Windows XP appearance and a customised wallpaper. The theme survives logoff and logon but if I do a cold reboot, then it reverts to the old Windows "classic theme" with grey menu bars etc. which I don't want. I have tried saving my theme as a named theme but that doesn't prevent it disappearing on reboot. If I turn off Themes in Services, then I get Windows Classic anyway which I don't want. How can I make my desired XP theme stick past a reboot please? I want to be able to have the XP appearance and a customised wallpaper, different wallpaper for each user. I've been using XP for a while on my main machine which I use for work, and never seen this problem. All help appreciated, thanks in advance. -- Robert Thanks for the reply. yes - it is set to automatic. I have tried changing that to manual and going through the process again. Doesn't seem to make any difference - I still get the Classic theme on a reboot, and when I try to change it back it then tells me the themes service is off, and I have to start it again. So I start it, select the theme I want and reboot, and then classic returns. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dataprofiling/ http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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Problem maintaining a desktop theme after reboot
Robert M Jones wrote:
Unknown wrote: Is themes set to automatic in services? "Robert M Jones" wrote in message ... Win XP Home. Second hand refurbished Dell desktop machine, just bought for a second family machine, with a new DELL OEM XP Home installation. I have been setting it up with some basic apps for the other members of the family. Two other users and me with an administrator account (in addition to the default administrator) I am setting up things via the Administrator account, and have run into a problem with trying to set up a desktop/Theme using the Windows XP appearance and a customised wallpaper. The theme survives logoff and logon but if I do a cold reboot, then it reverts to the old Windows "classic theme" with grey menu bars etc. which I don't want. I have tried saving my theme as a named theme but that doesn't prevent it disappearing on reboot. If I turn off Themes in Services, then I get Windows Classic anyway which I don't want. How can I make my desired XP theme stick past a reboot please? I want to be able to have the XP appearance and a customised wallpaper, different wallpaper for each user. I've been using XP for a while on my main machine which I use for work, and never seen this problem. All help appreciated, thanks in advance. -- Robert Thanks for the reply. yes - it is set to automatic. I have tried changing that to manual and going through the process again. Doesn't seem to make any difference - I still get the Classic theme on a reboot, and when I try to change it back it then tells me the themes service is off, and I have to start it again. So I start it, select the theme I want and reboot, and then classic returns. I think I may have cracked it - I have changed the video display settings to 32 bit and rebooted with NO reversion to classic theme. I saw reference to video cards on some other forums about this, and remembered I had changed the video display to 16 bit to get a little bit of extra zip out of the machine. So I changed it back to 32 and hey presto - problem solved. I then reset themes to automatic, saved my desired theme and applied it, and rebooted - all seems fine now. Thank you for pointing me to "services" which I didn't know existed! I will eventually beat this machine into submission and get it the way I want it. Many thanks for the pointers. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dataprofiling/ http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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Problem maintaining a desktop theme after reboot
You're more than welcome!
"Robert M Jones" wrote in message ... Robert M Jones wrote: Unknown wrote: Is themes set to automatic in services? "Robert M Jones" wrote in message ... Win XP Home. Second hand refurbished Dell desktop machine, just bought for a second family machine, with a new DELL OEM XP Home installation. I have been setting it up with some basic apps for the other members of the family. Two other users and me with an administrator account (in addition to the default administrator) I am setting up things via the Administrator account, and have run into a problem with trying to set up a desktop/Theme using the Windows XP appearance and a customised wallpaper. The theme survives logoff and logon but if I do a cold reboot, then it reverts to the old Windows "classic theme" with grey menu bars etc. which I don't want. I have tried saving my theme as a named theme but that doesn't prevent it disappearing on reboot. If I turn off Themes in Services, then I get Windows Classic anyway which I don't want. How can I make my desired XP theme stick past a reboot please? I want to be able to have the XP appearance and a customised wallpaper, different wallpaper for each user. I've been using XP for a while on my main machine which I use for work, and never seen this problem. All help appreciated, thanks in advance. -- Robert Thanks for the reply. yes - it is set to automatic. I have tried changing that to manual and going through the process again. Doesn't seem to make any difference - I still get the Classic theme on a reboot, and when I try to change it back it then tells me the themes service is off, and I have to start it again. So I start it, select the theme I want and reboot, and then classic returns. I think I may have cracked it - I have changed the video display settings to 32 bit and rebooted with NO reversion to classic theme. I saw reference to video cards on some other forums about this, and remembered I had changed the video display to 16 bit to get a little bit of extra zip out of the machine. So I changed it back to 32 and hey presto - problem solved. I then reset themes to automatic, saved my desired theme and applied it, and rebooted - all seems fine now. Thank you for pointing me to "services" which I didn't know existed! I will eventually beat this machine into submission and get it the way I want it. Many thanks for the pointers. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dataprofiling/ http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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