Re: Luna Visual Style

From: J. S. Pack (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:45:27 +0700

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:16:01 -0700, "CountryBoy"
<CountryBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Testy,
>
>The strange thing about the Themes service is that when I go to check on it, the system shows that it is set to automatic and running. But when I double click on Luna to run it tells me the service is not running. If I click on the classic theme it will run without any error...only the luna theme gives me this message. I have reinstalled the luna theme from DVD and then from Kelly's site thinking maybe it was corrupt...this didn't solve.
>
>This is a very aggrevating thing. I know people reading these posts think that I have no computer skills or knowledge...but I have worked in the computer technical field for many years...seem many strange things, but nothing like this....I have rebuilt users systems to fix problems at work, but I really don't want to do that at home if I can help it. Mainly because I don't understand what caused it or how serious it is...
>
>I also feel this board tends to give people simple and quick responses...probably good most of the time, but in this case it has not been helpful. Almost like no one has ever dealth with this problem before.
>
>Regards.
>
>
>"Testy" wrote:
>
>> Go to Admin Tools run Services and make sure Themes Service is set to auto.
>>
>> Testy
>>
>> "CountryBoy" <CountryBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6885E55F-7775-44C6-88AD-50073893DD32@microsoft.com...
>> > Kelly,
>> >
>> > I went back to play with this little problem this evening. I decided to
>> try your tool and your website again to see if I could finally solve this
>> problem. Well, instead of solving anything it seems to have gotten worse.
>> >
>> > Now I am in classic 100% of the time after running your solutions #187,
>> #164, and #117. I had run some of these a while back but thought I would
>> give them another try. The windows and buttons tab under display does not
>> show any options, not even the classic one that is greyed out now...never
>> had that problem before.
>> >
>> > I guess this is a fairly serious bug with XP because no one really
>> responds to many of the messages on the board here.
>> >
>> > Still searching for answers to the XP Luna bug.
>>
>>
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Very weird problem. The reinstall should have taken care of any corrupt
file, so must be something deep in the registry hence difficult to find.
You can try the SFC scan once anyway as one poster suggested.

It's another long shot, but download and install
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/9/13-9-100.shtml

then download some other visual styles, click on them in the
windows\resource folder to see if they take (since problems w/ the windows
desktop dialog).

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