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posted on December 23rd, 2010, 1:49 pm

i still think you should reinstall windows, and try then.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 1:52 pm

I wish i could lol. It's my parents computer so they wouldn't let me do that just so i could play a game.

Anyway i dont have a Windows XP installation disk.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 2:03 pm

if u delete/rename/move the uxtheme.dll file it will replace it with a backup copy, if these backup copies are broken too then they will cause the error.

if you use windows search to search for uxtheme and then rename anything that is uxtheme.dl* (where * is a wildcard and can be any character) then it wont be able to restore the backup.

then you can delete/move the original uxtheme.dll. windows may complain a lot about this, but if you ignore windows asking for the system disk (which you dont have anyway) then it might fix your problem. uxtheme.dll is NOT a critical file, it does purely cosmetic things.

the only downside is that you lose xp themes, and your windows will go back to windows classic (which i use anyway, on my win7 ultimate

i hate xp themes and aero) so it will look like win 98/2000/nt but with all the features of xp.

people may modify uxtheme.dll to get new themes for windows, this may have happened to your install somehow, maybe a program was installed that did this.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 2:07 pm

I did buy the PC from ebay, and there was some software on, your possibly right, i'll look into seeing what i can do, as i said its my parents PC, they don't like me changing anything, and would probably notice if it all changed to Windows 98. Even though Win98 ruled.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 2:36 pm

Theres 3 uxtheme.dll files in my Operating system, theres ones in:

C:/WINDOWS/$ntServicePackUninstall$

C:/WINDOWS/ServicePackFiles/i386

C:/WINDOWS/system32

Are all those required to keep the theme?

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 5:32 pm

Jenraux wrote:Theres 3 uxtheme.dll files in my Operating system, theres ones in:

C:/WINDOWS/$ntServicePackUninstall$

C:/WINDOWS/ServicePackFiles/i386

C:/WINDOWS/system32

Are all those required to keep the theme?

other files may be called uxtheme.dl* where * is another character. do a search for uxtheme rather than uxtheme.dll

i would delete all the ones except C:windowssystem32uxtheme.dll (yes .dll not .dl* - this is the primary file, all the others are backups)

then move the uxtheme.dll to your desktop, doesnt have to be dekstop, could be my documents etc, anywhere you can keep it.

the other guy simply moved the primary file to his desktop, windows would then automatically restore it using one of the backups. for him the backup was the original version. your backup is probably not original.

by deleting all the backups then moving the file windows wont be able to restore it. you will lose themes, but hopefully lose the crash.

if you wanna restore themes (and sadly the crash) you can just move the primary file back to system32.

the only way i know how to safely get the original uxtheme.dll is to reinstall windows.

i suggest buying windows 7, if you turn off aero it will run ok on a machine that runs xp. i turn off all themes and it runs much faster.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 11:00 pm

No matter what i do, uxtheme.dll always remains in the system32 folder, i deleted the other 2 and moved my uxtheme.dll to a folder on my desktop, but instantaneously another uxtheme.dll appeared in the folder.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 11:18 pm

Jenraux wrote:No matter what i do, uxtheme.dll always remains in the system32 folder, i deleted the other 2 and moved my uxtheme.dll to a folder on my desktop, but instantaneously another uxtheme.dll appeared in the folder.

yup there is a backup somewhere else. it may not be called exactly uxtheme.dll. it may be uxtheme.dlx (where x is replaced by another character) are you sure you found all files that are uxtheme.something?

every time you delete the uxtheme.dll in system32 it replaces it with one from another folder somewhere else. you have to delete all the others.

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 11:55 pm

I searched all system folders and hidden folders on drive C and D for anything with 'uxtheme' in it, it mustn't even be called uxtheme if there is a backup.

posted on December 24th, 2010, 11:08 am

hmm, maybe try a uxtheme patcher. i am reticent to attach one, maybe if a dev gives permission to attach it i will.

for now i will give the link of a place to download it:
Download Uxtheme Multi-patcher 7.1 Free - This program will patch your theme engine files so you can use any 3rd party visual style - Softpedia

just run the file, it will patch it for you. run the file again to unpatch the file. it will ask for reboot when you use it.

it may fix the issue.

posted on December 24th, 2010, 2:45 pm

Thanks, I'll try it later tonight.

posted on December 25th, 2010, 2:12 am

Last edited by Jenraux on December 25th, 2010, 2:18 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ok managed to rename uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.bak, so there is no uxtheme anywhere on the HDD, Fleetops works under those conditions, although an error message appears upon every boot up of an application so i won't be able to do that.

Upon replacing a completely original DLL back in, it crashes again. So it appears fleetops just doesn't work on my PC regardless of what uxtheme.dll i have, i have 2 different uxtheme's and both crash it.

(2 versions of UXtheme i tried where the XP SP2 and SP3 versions)

EDIT: Anyway to modify Fleetops so it doesn't search for uxtheme.dll?

posted on December 25th, 2010, 11:39 am

well if u have sp3 you obviously cant put a sp2 uxtheme.dll in. the version must match, thats probably why all the applications give errors at start since the uxtheme.dll was from a different windows version.

maybe you could write a batch file that renames uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.bak, so that you can do that to run fleetops. then when done playing, put the uxtheme.dll back to normal.

posted on December 25th, 2010, 1:00 pm

Hehe, never written a .BAT file so would have no idea how to do that.