Quote Originally Posted by Shemhamforash View Post
I can confirm that it does work following the same steps Mr GRiM provides in his thread for allowing custom themes in TH2. Second, it has in fact fixed an issue I was experiencing in my VM that was caused by UxStyle.

You need to reference Mr GRiM's thread to make sure you're following all the steps correctly. It looks right in your screenshot, but what about the .theme files? Are they pointing to the correct location of the .msstyles?

Next, it looks to me like you have dhjohns all-in-one still installed. The reason I say this is because of that icon for your hard drive, I recognize the Windows logo from his installer. That patching method replaces system files with patched RTM build files. You may need to run sfc/scannow to remove those first.

Third, revisit Dark Knight's post here:



Dude ..... it's not that hard, here it is laymen's terms as simply as I can put it .......

Download DLL tool to bypass UXTheme signature verification (UxTheme Signature Bypass) here: https://www.glass8.eu/download.html - you will see the download link towards the bottom of the page (2 links from the bottom)

1.)Copy both dll's from the UxTheme Signature Bypass rar file to your C:\AeroGlass folder

2.) Open start menu, click "Run" , type "regedit" (without quotes) and hit enter

3.) in regedit on the left side tree open the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows

4.) With the last key (Windows) Highlighted make sure all keys on the right read as so, if not, edit or insert them (WITHOUT QUOTES) :
"LoadAppInit_DLLs"=dword:00000001
"RequireSignedAppInit_DLLs"=dword:00000000
"AppInit_DLLs"="C:\\AeroGlass\\DWMGlass.dll,C:\\AeroGlass\\ModernFrame.dll,C:\\AeroGlass\\UxThemeSignatureBypass64.dll"

Make sure all the above is correct before closing registry editor.

5.) Copy the text below, paste to notepad and save the file to the desktop as AG-RegSetup.bat, run it by double clicking on the AG-RegSetup.bat file on your desktop then reboot. After reboot you will be able to run 3rd party themes.

I know the script below says Windows 10 but it works on both 10 and 8.1.

For Windows 8.1 or 10:




It's that easy.

Edit : BTW , I take no credit whatsoever for the information above, all credit goes to Big Muscle For the UxTheme Signature Bypass dlls and injection code And DosProbie for the registry and bat file info to pull this all together so it works , all of it can be found over at MSFN, I just condensed a 3 page forum thread is all I did.

With the above info you can say goodbye to any UxTheme patcher you may be pulling your hair out with and not have to worry anymore about uninstalling it and switching to the default Windows theme when new Windows Updates come out, Windows updates will not affect what is above, just set it and forget it.

All I did to install Big Muscle's UxTheme Signature Bypass was I uninstalled UxStyle, rebooted, downloaded the two .dlls from his website, dropped those in AeroGlass folder and then created the .bat file with the script that Dark Knight copied and executed it.

EDIT: I see you solved your problem on your own.
Actually the method i found also failed. Same with sfc/scannow. Here's a screenshot of all sfc/scannow got to.