Taskbar won't change.. even with styles, or resetting to default XP

[premierplayer]

I have been trying to get msstyles working. When I load one up everything works except the start bar is not changed. In fact is just the old windows version and won't even change back to the default xp. Anyone know what the deal is with this?

[vascorama]

go to start menu/run and type services.msc

press enter, scroll down and look for a service called themes, see if its activated and automatic mode.

Regards

[premierplayer]

go to start menu/run and type services.msc

press enter, scroll down and look for a service called themes, see if its activated and automatic mode.

Regards

started..automatic.

so thats ok.

[SakuraKira]

Here's a lame question... have you rebooted since you patched your UXtheme.dll? I know some people hardly ever shut down their Windows.

[premierplayer]

Here's a lame question... have you rebooted since you patched your UXtheme.dll? I know some people hardly ever shut down their Windows.

yes of course!

Anyways I just did a fresh install of WINXP with SP3. Using Nlite I cleaned out a lot of the clutter XP brings with it. So I am going to add my programs and see if I can get these darn styles to work. I figured the problem was somewhere in when I patched xp with SP3 and all my old styles stopped working I never got around to messing with them. So somewhere along the way some rogue file was messed up

[dreamz Veteran]

that problem is usually caused by having too many uxtheme.dll files floating around in the wrong places. do a search for uxtheme.dll and delete all instances NOT in system32. that should clear it up.

[premierplayer]

that problem is usually caused by having too many uxtheme.dll files floating around in the wrong places. do a search for uxtheme.dll and delete all instances NOT in system32. that should clear it up.

A clean install works too ..

Thanks

[Jamushroom Veteran]

But now you know what to do when it happens again ;) So I a complete reinstall isn't necessary to fix the Uxtheme problem.