Looking for these 3 DLL's

By Carbon Fiber
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Carbon Fiber

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Hi all

I updated my Windows 8 Pro x64 and it appears this affected some patched files for custom Windows 8 themes I applied using UxStyle.

Could someone be so kind to provide me with these three unpatched files:

  • uxinit.dll
  • uxtheme.dll
  • themeui.dll

which can be found at C ? Windows ? System32

The issue I'm currently facing is a blinking black screen (screen goes off and on, but when it's on it is black) after the Windows 8 boot logo.

I hope replacing these files should work.. any other suggestions are welcome too of course ;)

Thanks a bunch!

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I had this exact situation a week ago, where I ran to sfc /scannow because of some other errors I had at that time, and it also unintentionally replaced the UI .dll files with the original windows ones.

Still worth a shot, Carbon Fiber, maybe you could try it and tell us what you got.

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Alright, I'm trying that first.

Too bad I have to first find a USB key so I can put Windows 8 on it and then run that command .. Or am I missing another option to get to the command prompt?

Thanks for the help so far!

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Solved.

I played around with the BIOS settings so Windows 8 would fail to boot. Then, Windows gave me a troubleshoot screen where I was able to use the command prompt. Unfortunately, SFC wouldn't work as it was 'unavailable'. So I just restored the system to the latest restore point, and everthing seems to work fine.

Thanks all for your help!

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Freelancer1111

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Glad everything is good for you now.

Before another error makes your system unusable, burn a Rescue CD in advance :

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-windows-8-recovery-cd/

The sfc command should be executed with the matching Windows directories/drives (this works for Windows 7, don't know how it does for Windows 8) :

sfc /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows /scannow

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