UxTheme.dll Unlocked... step by step

[Ishmael]

I got tired of all the lame people asking for cracks or serials to TGTsoft's StylesXP. StylesXP was originally a modified dll, and a dll you can make yourself. I even provided that dll to people so they could use any msstyle they want, however these same people insisted on being lame and wanting to warez stylesxp even after I provided the legal unlocked dll. I was even accused of working for TGTsoft after I stated that you can do this yourself and provided the dll. Those lame people just don't get it, maybe I should have named this thread "Make your own warez."

Satire aside, here is how you all can make your own UxTheme.dll that allows you to use any .msstyle theme without StylesXP. This just removes the MS requirement for digital signing on the dll. I was not the original genious who figured out where in the dll the digital signing resided.

1) Backup UxTheme.dll to UxTheme.000

2) Don't blame me if you screw this up, these directions are as is in their somewhat correctness and I am not responsible for the government raid that will happen if you conduct this change. I have tested this and it works for me and the 500 other folks who have used this method. Do not put tinfoil in the microwave.

This is very simple to do and amuonts to changes to 17 values and takes less than five minutes to do. This also assumes you don't have StylesXP installed on your system and that you are working with the original UxTheme.dll

3) Open UxTheme.000 in a hex editor, not resource hacker.

4) Replace the following 4 sections in the hex code with the values I provide. You will need to use the

search function in the editor to find the exact address within the file to perform each edit

Adress: 0x00009C27

Original: 02

New Value: 00

Address: 0x0000B624 --> 0x0000B629

Original: 0F 8C 80 00 00 00

New Value: 90 90 90 90 90 90

Adress: 0x0000B6BB --> 0x0000B6C2

Original: 81 EC 80 00 00 00 56 57

New Value: 33 F6 8B C6 C9 C2 08 00

Address: 0x0000B71E --> 0x0000B71F

Original: 7C 38

New Value: 90 90

5) Check your changes, make sure you did not use the letter O in place of zero. SAVE

6) Reboot to safe mode, rename UxTheme.dll to UxTheme.bak ... and rename UxTheme.000 to UxTheme.dll

7) Let me know if it works, I just made this up so I am curious to see what happens.

[mmaacckkoo]

I'm not an ideot, but I do not know how to boot into Safe Mode in XP. Can anyone help?

Ishmael, I love you man!! That's a huge help.

also... I have UxTheme.dll and UXtheme.dll.tgtback which should I use?

[mmaacckkoo]

Also, what hex editor should I use?

[Darrian]

when your computer first boots up, and the white bar starts to scroll across your screen (before the boot logo pops up), jam on the F8 key. A menu should come up, just select Safe Mode and press [Enter] and that should do it.

[sanctified Veteran]

or better, just unistall styles xp, the themes are still working, at least they?re working in my machine

[h71y6]

Originally posted by mmaacckkoo

I'm not an ideot, but I do not know how to boot into Safe Mode in XP. Can anyone help?

Ishmael, I love you man!! That's a huge help.

also... I have UxTheme.dll and UXtheme.dll.tgtback which should I use?

Use the one without tgtback. Erm... that would mean you won't have to edit the dll file yourself.. cos that one is already modified.

[Eyecannon]

hehe, nice tutorial. I just used that one that was posted in the other thread and it worked.

[WolfmanNCSU]

@ Ishmael: Nice work!

@ mmaacckkoo Edit the one without the tgtsoft, also the hex editor I like to use is hackman v6.01

[Ishmael]

Yeah I don't know which UxTheme.dll to use if you have many copies left over after uninstalling StylesXP. The reason being that over the versions of StylesXP, once they moved to version 4 they stopped patching the dll. Over the various versions if you just kept installing them I imagine it did different replacements each time. I do not know if they replaced the previously patched dll with the original though.

The test is: if you uninstall StylesXP and can still use all your themes, it did not replace the patched dll with the original. You therefore do not need to do my hack.

I used Hex Workshop to compare my revisions to the original dll and make this guide. It is a fine hes editor. I also use XV132, which is a great hex editor.

Ishmael

[Boeing 787]

also... I have UxTheme.dll and UXtheme.dll.tgtback which should I use?

Uxtheme.dll.tgtback is the orignal dll file which is backed up during the install of Styles XP, when you uninstall styles XP it puts the orginal back.

For Hex editor go to download.com and download any freeware hex editor that you like.

) Let me know if it works, I just made this up so I am curious to see what happens.

So this whole thread is BS is what your saying.....

[Boeing 787]

I am not responsible for the government raid that will happen if you conduct this change. I have tested this and it works for me and the 500 other folks who have used this method. Do not put tinfoil in the microwave.

HAAAAAHHHAAA funny sh*t....put your hands up and come out with the illegal uxtheme.dll

A friend put a pop tart in the microwave in the wrapper didn't know there was tinfoil in it and it fried the microwave......pretty cool light show though!

[jgallen]

can somebody post the "hacked" dll or send it over AIM or MSN?

AIM: JGAllen23

MSN: [email protected]

Thanks

Greg

[Vinh]

check the the thread 'style xp expired'

you can get it there, if you still cant find it, contact me by a message client in my sig and i will send it to ya

[plastic]

Thanks. this brings it back to what it really is. A tweak/hack, usually believed to be public property.

[Arcane]

UxTheme.dll...where is it located?

[Vinh]

Arcane: its located in /Windows/system32/ dude :D

[Arcane]

thanks man just asking because I tried to replace it but windows wouldn't let me. It said it was being used by another process and could not be replaced or deleted...(in safe mode and normal boot up)

[Lakitu7]

I had to bootdisk to DOS to replace the file, myself.

[Arcane]

bootdisk to DOS?

I can't because I have a ntfs file system, not FAT32

[CHAOSKane]

For those of you that were scared to try it, yes it does work, perfectly, if not better than Style XP, all you have to do is follow the instructions word for word and it will be ok.

[Faction]

Originally posted by mmaacckkoo

I'm not an ideot, but I do not know how to boot into Safe Mode in XP. Can anyone help?

.... reboot.. tap f8 like hell on mobo screen [compaq- etc].. then boot safe mode with cmd prompt

[Steven P. Administrators]

I've had reports from some visitors that this is a warez post.. IMHO its not so long no-one posts a hacked dll on this forum. Im not sure how Microsoft responds to tutorials on hacking a dll in Windows but will leave it for now until told otherwise.

This was a F.Y.I only so don't take it the wrong way. Its a means to show that I did not ignore the emails that were sent in.

[isochar]

Does the hacked DLL work with Windowblinds installed?

[Vinh]

ok, for anyone that dont like hexing or dont have the time.

just contact me and i will send the fixed UxTheme.Dll to you, it works 100%.

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Edited:

Got a loads of emails requesting it, just download from here

FIXED UXTHEME.DLL

[CHAOSKane]

Could you tell me why you would use Windowblinds and Style XP at the same time anyway? wouldn't that just contradict each other?