3rd Party themes not working in latest RS2 build 14931

**dhjohns** · September 22nd, 2016 01:53 AM

First the update failed. I did clean install. Applied customizations with Black Theme Toolkit, and settings app crashes. Can't change themes. Can't even open Themes folder itself. Explorer window closes. Uninstall theme customizations, and all is good. But only default themes are working.

Actually on further examination Uxstlyle screws it all up.

**Shemhamforash** · September 22nd, 2016 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by dhjohns

Actually on further examination Uxstlyle screws it all up.

Have you tried Theme Signature Bypass?

**dhjohns** · September 22nd, 2016 02:35 AM

I also have another version of Windows in which UltraUXstyle is supported. So I copied the files over, and it is working now.

**Shemhamforash** · September 22nd, 2016 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by dhjohns

I also have another version of Windows in which UltraUXstyle is supported. So I copied the files over, and it is working now.

Good to know it's only potentially a UxStyle problem then
Edit: I assume you mean UltraUxThemePatcher and the same build of Windows that you said UxStyle stopped working on ...

**dhjohns** · September 22nd, 2016 03:34 AM

Yes UltraUXThemePatcher. When I tried to install on 14391, it said incompatible, so I installed it on AU, and copied the files to System32 in 14931. I took ownership of the originals, and renamed them with a .bak extension. After that all is good. All themes apply properly. Of course I had to restart, but without those files, the themes do not get applied well at all.

I am going to have to put in an extra section just for this build in the Black Theme Installer. If you can extract those dll files from the exe it would be cool. I was not able to do that with winrar. I had to install, then copy them over. I always try to dual boot so this is not a problem.

**Shemhamforash** · September 22nd, 2016 03:46 AM

Originally Posted by dhjohns

Yes UltraUXThemePatcher. When I tried to install on 14391, it said incompatible, so I installed it on AU, and copied the files to System32 in 14931. I took ownership of the originals, and renamed them with a .bak extension. After that all is good. All themes apply properly. Of course I had to restart, but without those files, the themes do not get applied well at all.

I am going to have to put in an extra section just for this build in the Black Theme Installer. If you can extract those dll files from the exe it would be cool. I was not able to do that with winrar. I had to install, then copy them over. I always try to dual boot so this is not a problem.

So if I understand correctly, those three system files need to be manually replaced to apply custom themes?
If so, it might be a good working solution for you now to be able to replace them, but that could become highly unstable on future builds. Not totally sure if it'd be a safe addition to the installer. You'd probably want to make a *testing* section that's labelled use at your own risk, etc