Best way to undo everything?

**JaxBug** · March 7th, 2017 06:24 AM

Okay so I got the dark theme installed and it was all wonderful and great, and then the Anniversary update came. My computer has been stuck in an endless failing update loop and it's been driving me nuts for months, since it turns itself on every night now just to fail the same updates again and again. I really would prefer not to do a fresh install if it can be helped, so maybe if I can just follow a guide somewhere on how to revert all the changes I can install this stupid update and not have this issue anymore.

The Microsoft support forums were (of course) completely useless up until earlier today when someone suggested this:

open C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\aero and revert any renaming you did to aerolite.msstyles file - after this correction update should install perfectly

I'm having some trouble renaming the files even though I gave myself ownership to them.

So yeah I'm a little lost and would just like some help with this. I probably should've asked for help here first instead of going to Microsoft, that would've been...smarter.

**2635599** · March 7th, 2017 11:17 AM

JaxBug if your system has been like this for months then i strongly recommend you rerun 10. once that is done use dhjohns all-in-in installer to install everything you need. fyi in the future if you know a major update to 10 is coming like in your case 1511 to 1607(cumulative updates can be ignored)uninstall everything you used to allow you to use custom themes before doing or allowing the update. once the 10 update is installed then and only then can you re-setup your system to use custom themes. mr grim has a fantastic tutorial on how to apply custom themes for 1607 aka 14393.???.

**Agelyk** · March 7th, 2017 03:44 PM

I think there's no better way to restore Windows than by formatting it and installing it from 0 because backups never restore the system to 100% without failures.

**2635599** · March 7th, 2017 04:48 PM

angel960 while you opinion is very much appreciated i know for a fact that there are backup programs for 10 that work perfectly every time. on that note though with how quick it is today to get back to where you were i would recommend doing a fresh install. way too many problems take far longer to sort than just reinstalling the os, installing your apps, and tweaking it to your liking does.

**dhjohns** · March 7th, 2017 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by 2635599

angel960 while you opinion is very much appreciated i know for a fact that there are backup programs for 10 that work perfectly every time. on that note though with how quick it is today to get back to where you were i would recommend doing a fresh install. way too many problems take far longer to sort than just reinstalling the os, installing your apps, and tweaking it to your liking does.

Yea the initial install only takes a few minutes. Then I have a bat file which installs all my tweaks, and programs! Life is good!

**Agelyk** · March 7th, 2017 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by 2635599

angel960 while you opinion is very much appreciated i know for a fact that there are backup programs for 10 that work perfectly every time. on that note though with how quick it is today to get back to where you were i would recommend doing a fresh install. way too many problems take far longer to sort than just reinstalling the os, installing your apps, and tweaking it to your liking does.

mmm...tell me some that worked for you 100% so that I can prove it