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By definition each theme has a default color for various types of selected text, change and save theme as a modified version. Ex solarized theme_ white editor or whatever you want to save your personal preferences and import into any project you would like to use that theme variance/modification
After doing all that, when you change the theme from your customized Solarized Dark to Dark Mode, and then change back later to your saved & imported customized Solarized Dark, your settings will be intact.
Having the above in mind, with Windows 8, Microsoft decided you can't turn off Desktop Window Manager (DWM) any more. However, if you stop Themes service, Windows will have to fallback to CPU-based window rendering similar to Classic theme.
A third method is somwhat similar to the first one, but is reported not to work with the taskbar (or the taskbar needs to be restarted).It uses a batch file and the handle utility by sysinternals. As the first method, it keeps DWM running. You have to run them unde admin command prompt.
Use penetwork for metro network ui, use turn system icons on or off to get rid of Windows network icon.Use Windows pe task manager (old style non dwm dependant, can be pulled out of Windows setup using shift f10, notepad, open file, all files. Need en-us\taskbar.exe.mui).Use clearlock instead of locking pc, replace sethc.exe for lock on 5x shift key.Use classic shell for start menu, disable all metro and start screen references.Google how to disable the explorer ribbon ui, do it.Google how to disable Command bar, edit the shellstyle.dll in system32.Use batterybar and disable low battery notifications if using a laptop, also disable icon using turn system icons on or off.Disable lock and switch users.Disable password on wake.Set force auto logon key to automatically log on if you accidentally log off.Google how to disable all hot corners, charms bar & mouse edge ui
Only problem with this..Can't see any startup/shutdown messagesCan't use multiple user accountsInsecure due to clearlockCan't use metro appsCan't use startscreenCan't use ctrl alt del security screenCan't use open with dialogueCan't use network UI dialogueCan't use autoplay dialogueCan't use charms bar
As the other answers have stated, the old, non composited classic theme is gone, and all the other answers do is suggest you tweak the theme. Lets face it - its not a classic theme without a proper start button and menu. On the other hand, if you want all that modern/metro/windowsui/whatevertheycallitthisweek goodness, you need a start screen. You can probably use my solution, in conjunction with either classic, or new shiny windows 8 themes to get something that close enough to a windows XP or 7 system UIwise. It also contains a explorer tweaking tool that brings it closer to a classic windows explorer window
It takes a bit of tweaking to get it just right but you can get something pretty close to what you want with a combination of classic shell and small taskbar buttons set to "never combine" through the regular taskbar settings. You can also tweak to select the explorer style you want
. In this case, I've created a new account (the horrible yellow wallpaper is a default!) and set this up like an XP system. You can also use a 7 style start button, and/or 7 style explorer settings.
You can use the start screen menu as you see here to access the start screen/metro.I do believe you can also pin that in order to get a modern ui/strat screen launcher, and presumably set another shortcut to it.
Unlike a theme hack, this is a standalone application that can be easily installed and uninstalled, without having to resort to ugly things like patching and other hacks. It also uses the DWM (unlike the classic themes), so you're not missing out on the graphically accelerated (and actually faster) UI with aero. You can also uninstall it cleanly if you're not happy with it
Is meant to be for first login only, however I need to be able to do this for all current users. The main goal is to change the colour of the toolbar/window objects to something other than the default.
Since you can execute theme files, you can add the file to run at startup in the registry or also by adding it to the startup folder I think. I have my theme in a read-only folder on the network and added a startup key on the machine. One drawback of using a startup key is that if you look at the startup list in task manager it shows up as "Program" and if there is more than one you can't tell which is which.
The problem with applying a theme to an existing user profile is that the registry key for setting the theme is per user. There is no computer level theme setting as far as I can tell. The user level setting is set with CurrentTheme under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes. Changing the path doesn't seem to change the theme though.
I never found a better solution so I'm using the GPO to apply theme to new user sign-in. For some reason it is not applying all of the settings included in the theme. The slideshow duration is set to 6 hours but new users are set for 30 minutes. I may just add running the theme file to a new user setup script we have and apply it manually for good measure. Another option is a login script you can apply to all users for a time then remove. Or add a logon script to change a system variable when it's applied or check the registry to see if it's applied. There are lots of hacky solutions but nothing provided by Microsoft for existing users unfortunately.
Although they are quite old, here are a couple of different Microsoft hotfixes for issues with this particular group policy setting not applying correctly in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008. Not sure if they apply in your case, but here they are:
There are certainly good reasons for wanting to change the current theme programmatically. E.g. an automated test tool may need to switch between various themes to make sure the application works correctly with all of them.
As a user, you can change the theme by double-clicking a .theme file in Windwos Explorer and then closing the Control Panel applet that pops up. You can easily do the same from code. The steps below work just fine for me. I've only tested on Windows 7.
You'll still end up with the Personalisation window beeing open after using this command so to close it down programatically you'll have to use one of the suggested methods mentioned above... (I personally prefer the Powershell script)
I have been experimenting about changing the windows theme via command line and I learned that by executing the theme file it is being applied by the Windows 10 as well. So in your batch file, you could use one of the following lines:
Please note the path to the theme files might be needed to adjust depending on your system user configuration. I strongly advise saving your themes with names excluding spaces as it makes much easier moving forward. Executing such line leaving you with the Settings window opened. To deal with I considered using VBS script instead. Thanks to Patrick Haugh user1390106 there is a much easier way to close the Settings window.
I believe the best you can do is open your target .msstyles file (in c:\windows\resources\themes), which will pop up the display properties box. At this point you could use window subclassing to programmatically click the right buttons.
In addition of the post of "Jan Goyvaerts":I use SendMessage instead of PostMessage. The difference is that SendMessage waits for the command to be taken in by the window. Meaning that in the SendMessages returns, you know that the theme dialog is closed.
So if you start it with the monstrous (but genious) rundll32.exe method suggested by "Campbell". You should wait a sec before sending WM_CLOSE. Otherwise the theme will not be set and the application closes right away.
The code snippet below extracts a file from resource (a themepack). Then executes the desk.cpl with rundll32.exe, waits 3 sceonds, then sends WM_CLOSE (0x0010), waits for the command to be process (the time it takes for the theme to be set).
For a user that logs in, we simply run ChangeTheme.vbs as the user logs in (e.g. autorun). The script starts desk.cpl and passes the required parameters to it as well as the name of the selected theme.
The dark UI background persists despite any changes made in Options. How do I disable this and prevent LO from following the OS without changing the OS app theme itself? This is visually unusable as-is.
The incomplete implementation of the dark theme? Try ticking Enable experimental features in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Advanced. Possibly, make sure you have selected in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Application Colours the LibreOffice Dark in the drop down field at the top.
Because looking nice is a subjective statement, which of those applications in your screenshot do you think look nice? You appear to have the Ubuntu Software Crentre open (a GTK3 app) and the menu editor (a GTK2 app).
edit: i tried to change the gtk themes through several applications but nothing happened. i suppose it's because i am not using something that specifically is for xfce? (i just installed xfce and before used gnome shell).
1. Settings Manager -> Appearance -> Style tab. This will change all of the GTK elements (buttons, text, colours - everything inside of the frame of the window).
2. Settings Manager -> Window Manager -> Style tab. This will change the window frame, titlebar, minimize/maximize buttons).
this sounds like you have some folder redirect in play and the theme settings from the users workstations are getting set on the RDS session and that particular theme files are not located on the server and triggering that Basic version with bad settings.
If you run an RDS server farm, you can copy these files from a known good server to the corrupted one. Note that that you need to take ownership of the VSCache folder and allow admin to have full access beforehand.
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