I've followed dreams guide to patching etc for mss.styles. I've done everything, but get stuck when I've done everything correct (folder names etc) ... Yet none of them appear in my Windows & Buttons drop-down menu Can anyone help please? (Uxtheme.dll is correctly patched, folder names are correct, "styles/themes".mss are all in correct folder names etc) Anyone?

could you post a screenshot of the msstyle inside the folder, something like this

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also what msstyle is it you are trying to use?

A Vista one.

Here's the print screen you wanted

Try double clicking it

I have, it just brings up the appearance properties box

So when the Appearance properties comes up, you can't apply the theme? Are the buttons greyed out? What are your options?

My options are (under windows & buttons):

"Windows XP Style"
"Windows Classic Style"

And thats it

BUMP?

Did you try it with StyleXP to?

I aint got StyleXP

Try the shareware version.
See if that helps

Looks to me like you haven't patched your msstyle correctly, what method did you use to patch it?

Dreamz guide.

Silly question but after patching the uxtheme did you go and install any windows updates?

If so then the original uxtheme would replace the patched one again and you would have to do it over.

Just a guess...

I don't know exactly, but it looks like you (didn't apply)/(failed to succesfully install) any UXTheme patch or any other MSStyles-based theming program.

I recommend you to download the latest Neowin UXTheme Patcher (it works great!) and after that restart your computer when it asks you to do so.
After that, try to double-click it again and it will load in the list. (since it's placed in the right place by looking at your screenshot)

OK Thankza lot guys