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Friday, December 26, 2008

Windows VistaOSX09 Theme Problems with Windows Vista

Recently I installed the VistaOSX09 theme on my windows vista - business and initially it looked great. all the icons, dialogs were resembling OS X. it even changed my boot logo to Apple. Nice.
But off late i find that the system was not performing good with this in place and hence planned to uninstall this theme. But, i faced a problem with uninstallation. The uninstallation failed to remove the theme and this in-turn corrupted the themeui.dll as it got modified during the vistaOSX theme installation.
I restarted my m/c expecting that everything will be alright as is the case most of the times with windows. Restart and things look better. But, this time it was the opposite. My themeui.dll got messed up and the system was a drab and extremely slow !! I previously saved my theme and tried to load and thats when i got to know that the themes services was hacked by the VistaOSX theme installation.
I get that the theme could not be loaded as the service was not running. I went and tried to start the services in Services.msc. But now I get the standard message:
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Services
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Windows could not start the Themes service on Local Computer.Error 126: The specified module could not be found.
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OK
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when i try to start the service. from my previous windows knowledge while I worked in Microsoft, i knew that I need to repair my system to get the original dlls. So, running "sfc /scannow" and "sfc /verifyfile=\Windows\System32\themeui.dll" solved my problem. After running the above commands, I restarted my m/c and voila the Windows Aero theme and other visual goodies started working :).
Remember that when the sfc detects any files corrupted. In order to repair it I will prompt for the original OS CD to copy files from. Make sure that you have the original ones.

thanks,
-Kiran Mantrala