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QBasicer
May 28th, 2006, 09:16 PM
I currently edit the Registry to change the theme to the classic, but how do I apply those changes?
Mike Harnad
May 30th, 2006, 08:45 AM
First, a question...Why are you editing the registry to change the theme? Is your code reliant on a specific theme?
QBasicer
May 31st, 2006, 05:11 AM
What happens is the user picks whether they want classic or luna (or some other custom theme if their computer supports it). It saves this to a USB Drive. When they get to the next computer, if it's XP it loads all their colours, backgrounds, themes, etc.
Mike Harnad
June 1st, 2006, 10:24 AM
I think you need to use desk.cpl (http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/control.htm) and control.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;135068) .
QBasicer
June 3rd, 2006, 08:35 PM
That just looks like displaying the promt for the users to input. I'd like to know the commands that the display applet uses to apply the new theme, I assume the write to the registry, and then make some obscure system call that I don't know. Of course, I could be wrong too.