http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: (Solved) - cant logon to vista after "trying" to put a vista theme en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:02:35 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-42490 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:09:50 +0000 pipo 42490@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>thanks scott, i think i remember seeing that how-to by the geek, although, i wasn't paying attention (lol). thanks again to everyone. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-42003 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:54:07 +0000 Scott 42003@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-patch-windows-vista-to-enable-custom-themes-visual-styles/'>http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-patch-windows-vista-to-enable-custom-themes-visual-styles/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41971 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:15:37 +0000 pipo 41971@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>thanks for the tip, drifta, i actually don't know how to implement themes in vista. can somebody please point to a site or a link on how to put/install themes on vista (i hear i need vista glazz or something, is that freeware, if not, is there an alternative freeware i can use?).</p> <p>thanks guys. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41735 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:17:49 +0000 drifta 41735@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>pipo just wanted to let u know that u had to rename the files .old only not .old.dll </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41648 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:45:49 +0000 raphoenix 41648@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>pipo,</p> <p>Glad you were able to retrieve your important data.</p> <p>@Scott,</p> <p>You are much too generous in your praise but thanks :) :)</p> <p>Best Regards,<br /> Rick P. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41643 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:30:32 +0000 0zSpitt 41643@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i'm glad i'm not the only one who computer got messed up by those themes </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41610 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:59:43 +0000 Scott 41610@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hey Hey,<br /> great news pipo and kudos to Rick ! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41608 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:57:34 +0000 pipo 41608@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>hi raphoenix,</p> <p>thanks for the reply, but i can't quite understand what you said after booting to command prompt, but your command prompt suggestion gave me an idea. you see, the instructions for the theme i was following told me to rename the *.dll files to something like *.old.dll. so what i did was to boot to command prompt, go the the system32 folder and tried to search for all the .dll files with the extension *.old.*, i tried renaming them, voila, i got back in.</p> <p>i'm sorry i wasn't able to fully understand your suggestion, but thanks a lot for the booting into command prompt idea, that did the trick. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41564 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:48 +0000 raphoenix 41564@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>pipo</p> <p>BOOT COMMAND PROMPT</p> <p>Use ATTRIB with /S /D switches to clear directories and then Copy or Xcopy.</p> <p>See Below.</p> <p>Attrib Displays, sets, or removes the read-only, archive, system, and hidden attributes assigned to files or directories. Used without parameters, attrib displays attributes of all files in the current directory. </p> <p>Syntax<br /> attrib [{+r|-r}] [{+a|-a}] [{+s|-s}] [{+h|-h}] [[Drive:][Path] FileName] [/s[/d]]</p> <p>Parameters<br /> +r<br /> Sets the read-only file attribute.<br /> -r<br /> Clears the read-only file attribute.<br /> +a<br /> Sets the archive file attribute.<br /> -a<br /> Clears the archive file attribute.<br /> +s<br /> Sets the system file attribute.<br /> -s<br /> Clears the system file attribute.<br /> +h<br /> Sets the hidden file attribute.<br /> -h<br /> Clears the hidden file attribute.<br /> [Drive:][Path] FileName<br /> Specifies the location and name of the directory, file, or set of files for which you want to display or change attributes. You can use wildcard characters (that is, ? and *) in the FileName parameter to display or change the attributes for a group of files.<br /> /s<br /> Applies attrib and any command-line options to matching files in the current directory and all of its subdirectories.<br /> /d<br /> Applies attrib and any command-line options to directories.<br /> /?<br /> Displays help at the command prompt.<br /> Remarks<br /> Working with groups of files<br /> You can use wildcard characters (that is, ? and *) with the FileName parameter to display or change the attributes for a group of files. If a file has the system or hidden attribute set, you must clear these attributes before you can change any other attributes for that file.</p> <p>Post Back With Results.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Rick P. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-logon-to-vista-after-trying-to-put-a-vista-theme#post-41553 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:34:33 +0000 pipo 41553@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>ok, i think i really messed up this time, i was trying to implement a vista theme that i saw in lifehacker, i changed some dll files and after rebooting, i can't logon to windows anymore. i badly need help coz i'm in the middle of a very important project and i can't retrieve my files. as of the moment, i can't repair my vista installation coz my vista install cd is missing and i don't want to to do a system recovery coz the project i was doing is saved in the primary partition.</p> <p>i was trying to use ubuntu livecd, but i can't access my windows files. anybody have a quick suggestion on how i can retrieve my files. i even went as far as booting to the command prompt and copying the files to a usb, but the only things that are being copied are the files itself, not the folders and the folder contents.</p> <p>my last resort is installing my windows xp on my other partition. but if anybody has a better solution/suggestion, i would greatly appreciate it. </p>