I've been trying to get a new theme for windows XP for a long time now. You know, I'm just getting sick of the Luna theme, and Classic is so retro.

But to get on topic, I've done it successfully before, a few months ago, I downloaded from Customize.org and
installed the UXtheme Patcher So I could do it, and
it worked, but then I had to a time later. Now, I've downloaded and installed the SP1-3 and tried it again. I did the same thing with the same theme Vista VG Black and I patched UXtheme.dll but when I tried to apply the theme I got VG black and all it changed was to Classic style with black coloring. Not the Vista Black color like I wanted.

Then I tried it again, but this time with the replacer method, where I manually downloaded the dll from Within Windows and I downloaded the replacer, which I took the patched version of the .dll and replaced it with the default. But it still wont work.

I've got SP3 right now and I was wondering if someone might help me, cause I want this new theme again.

Thanks in Advance

TKI

Yes, i've tried at 1 or two more after I did this. And it still doesn't work.

and apparently you need another version of uxtheme.dll for it to work with SP3 which is the one I downloaded from withinwindows.

Thanks, but that's not what I meant by this thread. What I meant was, does anyone have a solution for what I might be doing wrong in terms of replacing the Uxtheme dll. What I might be doing wrong and alternative sources for download.

I had a similar problem, never found a solution. SP3 screwed up so many of my day to day functions i eventually had to revert to SP2. (for a while it was stuck in 4bit color.)

It was more than just the UI, Xbox360 wont connect to media player network under sp3. I use that address bar feature that was disabled, and a few other grievances that i can't recall. I'm sticking w/ SP3 until i get a machine that would work with W7

the Zune theme worked fine after i updated to sp3.