[CB123]

OK, here's my situation... this morning when i turned my computer on it cames up in windows classic. I went to the appearance tab in the display folder and the Windows XP style option was not avaiable, the only options was Windows Classic. Then, I thought to myself that if I used system restore I could restore it to a previous time where I had the Windows XP style. Well, when I tried to use system restore I got the message "System Restore is not able to protect your computer. Please restart your computer, and then run system restore again." I did what the message said and I got the same message again when I tried running system restore again. So now my system restore doesn't work, and i'm stuck in windows classic appearance, can anyone help me? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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Right Click on the Desktop, hit properties.

Change the Theme to XP

[Phoenix_Divine]

Right Click on the Desktop, hit properties.

Change the Theme to XP

[CB123]

I went to themes and these were my only choices: Modified Theme, My Current Theme, Windows Classic, More Themes Online..., Browse...

[Phoenix_Divine]

No XP Theme? ... Hmm Try selecting Classic Theme and applying it. Hit ok, then load the themes and see if the XP option is there.

[CB123]

Didn't work

[Phoenix_Divine]

Oh I figured it out. This should work if you didn't delete it...

Right click and hit properties.

Under Theme hit Browse

Find C Windows Resources Themes Luna.Theme

That should be it.

Edited by Phoenix_Divine, 02 August 2005 - 10:57 PM.

[Phoenix_Divine]

Let me know if it worked...

[CB123]

OK, i found it, clicked it, and this came up: "The theme cannot be loaded because the theme sevice is not running. You can turn the servie on in the Computer Management Administrative Tool in the Conrtol Panel."

[Phoenix_Divine]

Do what it says

Open C

Then Control Panel

Open Computer Management Administrative Tool

Then find Services

Find the Theme Service

Double Click it

Change Startup type to Automatic

Under Service Type hit Start

[CB123]

Ok, I did what you said and then I went to the themes bar and Windows XP was there. I clicked it and then the same error message popped up about the theme service not running. I went back to the administrative tools, did it over again started the theme service, and when I clicked XP it happened again.

[Phoenix_Divine]

Keep me updated and let me know if it works.

[CB123]

You stumped?

[Phoenix_Divine]

Oh. So now you can click the theme but it says it's not started?

Did you hit start service? and it said it was running?

Edited by Phoenix_Divine, 03 August 2005 - 12:03 AM.

[CB123]

I did and what happened was that Windows XP was now a choice in the drop down bar for themes but when i selected it the error message went up again. I went back to the theme services again to make sure it was still under started, it was not. I started it again and then went back to themes selected Windows XP again and the same error message appeared again. I checked theme services and it was now stopped again, it seemed like when I selected Windows XP theme it stopped the theme service.

[Phoenix_Divine]

hmm

Make sure it's on automatic

Then start it

Then restart the computer

Then try to put the theme on XP

and post here