Install and Create Visual Styles for Windows Vista

Vista, Windows June 14th, 2007

You may be getting tired of the default theme in Windows Vista, and luckily for you there is now a uxtheme.dll patch for Vista. Visual styles kept XP alive for me and many others over the years, so I'm looking forward to a new generation of themes. Unfortunately there aren't too many themes for Vista currently, but in time there will be.

Are you tired of Vista's Aero theme?
A patched uxtheme.dll gave you the freedom to use un-signed custom visual style in Windows XP but in Windows Vista you have to replace three dll files to use third party visual styles.
Those three files are uxtheme.dll, shsvcs.dll and themeui.dll
Downloads and detail install instructions can be found at Lis Killer's blog

Download: Windows Vista uxtheme.dll Patch

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2 Comments to “Install and Create Visual Styles for Windows Vista”

  1. Danyell | December 16th, 2007 at 1:39 am

    http://deviantart.com has quite a few visual styles now. also, there’s vistaglazz that will patch those .dll’s for you.

  2. Mick | April 12th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Hi
    you have cool site. good luck!

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