display themes

[Guest]

For the past two years I have had the windows classic display theme on my
Gateway 700gr running windows XP service pack 2 without any problems. I
recently installed a new video card (ASUS EAX1600Pro). Now my computer
starts with Windows XP theme display. I've gone to the control panel clicked
on the display Icon and choose ‘classic’ (I specify the Desert color scheme
also). I've hit the ‘apply’ and ‘OK’ buttons. However, at boot up, my
“classic dessert†theme might only come up a few times but after a day or two
I'll turn on the computer and the Windows XP theme is displayed. The XP
theme will be displayed each time I boot until I manually change it back to
my classic theme. I’ve started running the "display" selection program at
start up so I can easily change my display back to Classic/desert (I have the
particular settings saved as "My Desert") whenever I see the display come up
in the XP theme. This however is becoming tiresome. How can I make my
classic theme ‘stick’?

 

[Andrew Bailey]

For the past two years I have had the windows classic display theme on my
Gateway 700gr running windows XP service pack 2 without any problems. I
recently installed a new video card (ASUS EAX1600Pro). Now my computer
starts with Windows XP theme display. I've gone to the control panel
clicked
on the display Icon and choose 'classic' (I specify the Desert color
scheme
also). I've hit the 'apply' and 'OK' buttons. However, at boot up, my
"classic dessert" theme might only come up a few times but after a day or
two
I'll turn on the computer and the Windows XP theme is displayed. The XP
theme will be displayed each time I boot until I manually change it back
to
my classic theme. I've started running the "display" selection program
at
start up so I can easily change my display back to Classic/desert (I have
the
particular settings saved as "My Desert") whenever I see the display come
up
in the XP theme. This however is becoming tiresome. How can I make my
classic theme 'stick'?

Hi George,

Probably NOT the best way to do it, but I would simply disable the "Themes"
service.

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

Scroll down to the service called "Themes" and double-click it to open its
panel, then you can select "Disabled" from the Startup type drop-down list
and click OK.

Hope this helps and a Happy New Year

Andy

 

[Andrew Bailey]

Andy

So far your solution has worked fine. However you wrote that this was
"Probably NOT the best way to do it." Is there any down side to your
suggestion?

Thanks

George

Hi George,

The only downside is that if ever you want to use XP style themes you have
to remember to enable the themes service.

Glad it worked for you

Andy

 

[Opinicus]

I would simply disable the "Themes" service.
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
Scroll down to the service called "Themes" and double-click it to open its
panel, then you can select "Disabled" from the Startup type drop-down list
and click OK.

Thanks for that tip. I too use the "Classic" display and suffer from the
problem of it reverting to the WinXP theme at odd moments, though not as
frequently as the OP says happens.

Does anyone know what *causes* this relapse?

My solution BTW is to create a "MyTheme" file of settings (right-click
anywhere on the desktop > Properties > Themes > Save as) that I keep in the
"My Documents" file. Any time Windows decides to revert to the WinXP theme,
I just double-click on MyTheme.Theme and put everything back the way it
was--or rather, the way I want it to be.