Re: Windows XP Themes won't work



Windows XP Themes won't workSteve, check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Select T and scroll to Themes- not working.
"Steve Bragg" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C2AF3365.FD03%steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear All

I have an XP Pro SP2 machine that has suddenly stopped allowing the Luna theme (or any others) to work.

For several days I have been fighting with the machine to allow the Themes service to run and stay running and I found a web site that gave some registry changes that seemed to have got this part at least working.

I can change the theme from Windows Standard to the Luna theme if I manually do it from the desktop and the theme stays as long as the machine is not re-booted or turned off.

When it is re-booted we are back to the same problem that the Windows Standard theme is back and the XP (Luna) theme does run until manually started from the desktop.

It's really frustrating to have this problem.

As I say the Themes service is running and starts automatically so why does the chosen theme not stay??

Does any one have any ideas.

BR's

Steve B

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