Original Windows XP skins are GONE!? WB5

April 26, 2006 12:38 PM from

I just realized that I'm missing the original windows xp skins (the blue, silver, olive + the "electric blue" media center xp skin as well).

Does anyone know how I can go about checking if these have been deleted and (hopefully) restoring them? Does anyone know how to prevent this or why this happened?

I don't want to reinstall Windows just to gain these back. I am pretty sure that Windowblinds 5 had something to do with this. I've been using WB for years now and never had this problem!

The skins won't appear on my Apperance tab in Display Properties. And the option to restore WinXP skins appears on the Windowblinds Menu screen but when I choose to apply it I get the classic windows skin (not the XP skin).

THANKS!

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Reply #1 April 26, 2006 1:19 PM from

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In the WB config, on the far left of the skins list, you don't see them?

Or in advanced, sorted by installed date, in the upper left corner?

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Reply #2 April 26, 2006 3:56 PM from

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Did you at one time or another turn off the XP themes service via MSconfig?

Reply #3 April 27, 2006 1:06 PM from

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thanks for your replies. that fixed the problem night train. i had disabled it thru (the services manager not msconfig) i feel so stupid but --whew!

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