remove themes service?

[james]

Is there a way to completely remove the themes service from an image
build? I want to use explorer shell, but it looks like the themes
service is started by user interface core, although I could be wrong.
I'm just looking for a way to make it so that Themes Service is removed
and doesn't show up in the services mmc snap-in. Any ideas?

 

[K S [MS]]

Yes the theme service is part of the User Interface Core component. Is
there a reason why you need to remove this service?

You could try deleting the service dll, namely shsvcs.dll in the runtime or
by disabling this file in the User Interface Core component before the
build. But this might break the Themes feature (and maybe other shell
functionality) in your image.

If you want to remove this service to prevent users from managing/changing
themes for the desktop, the recommended way is to use group policies. There
is a policy specifically to remove the Themes button in the Display
Properties control applet: Start->Run, type gpedit.msc, select User
Configuration->Administrative Templates->Control Panel->Display->Desktop
Themes and set "Remove Theme Option" to Enabled.

KS

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