Comments on: Themes

By: Phillip H. Blanton

Phillip H. Blanton — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:53:19 +0000

Getting Aero transparency to work in Windows Server 2008 R2 in VMWare.

By default, 3d acceleration is disabled in VMWare. For some reason this doesn’t adversely affect Windows 2008 Server or Windows 7; just Windows Server 2008 R2. The fix is to force VMWare to enable 3d acceleration. TO do so, add the following lines to the VMX file for the virtual machine…

mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 67108864

I put them at the very bottom. It doesn’t matter, because VMWare will rearrange the file to its liking.

Save the file and restart your VM. When it comes up, you should have Aero Glass transparency.

Enjoy!

By: PJLee

PJLee — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:45:00 +0000

I have same problem with Anup. Why? Arris: You probably have to force Windows to use Aero. You can use the following article to do that: MDL: Force Enable Windows Aero Glass.

By: Anup

Anup — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:38:32 +0000

Step 8 does not work for me. Step 1 to 7 went through exactly as your snapshots. Basically in the Themes Control Panel App it keeps the Aero Themes disabled and does not allow me to change to that theme. Also tried downloading one of the themes from Microsoft but same thing, it gets installed but is disabled. Any idea whats missing? Maybe video card settings or something.

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By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:53:26 +0000

First, thank you so much for taking the time to write and post this. It is a great help. When I go to personalize my desktop and I select a theme, my screen background turns to black. I can successfully change back to the boring default 2008 theme. I tried another reboot to no avail. Arris: Having a black background could occur when Windows detects you are running an unlicensed or pirated version. Make sure you don't use any cracks and activation hacks. If that's not the case, please ask your question at the forum.

By: hacki

hacki — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:51:49 +0000

i have the same problem as ryan, does anyone know a solution to this?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:03:34 +0000

When I attempt to run the theme or the sidebar script I receive the error message bellow. My user account is a member of the Administrators group. If I right click on the script and select run as administrator then the CMD window will open and close a split second after but I receive no error even though the script didn’t actually run. Thanks for your help.

ERROR: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on the file (or folder).
Access is denied.

By: Reng Kwan

Reng Kwan — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:21 +0000

ooh sorry. after i restore 3 files that is patched by uxtheme. its alright now. great thanks!

Arris: I’m glad you fixed it Thanks for reporting back!

By: Reng Kwan

Reng Kwan — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:51:28 +0000

can anyone post the uitheme.dll for windows server 2008 r2 sp1?

i restored the uxtheme.dll.backup to uxtheme.dll. apparently it still have the problem of ‘loading’ of everything..

By: Skie

Skie — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:08:21 +0000

Ah. The reason was that the uxtheme.dll patcher failed and the .dlls it changed to were corrupted somehow.
There should be .backup files there.
In safe mode, rename the uxtheme.dll, and others that have .backup extension copies in Windows\System32, to something else, and change the .backup ones to use.