Can't change Windows XP theme

herman2811

santer wrote: »

Maybe run the reg file each morning and if the not up to much tech guy asks why it is showing the XP theme, say you bought your monitor in from home because you prefer the desktop settings

To be honest, I doubt he or anyone would notice whatever I did to my PC, but can you please explain what "run the reg file each morning" means and how to do it?! I'm not a layman, but nowhere near an expert either!

Thanks

santer_2

Click the word here in post 7

Scroll down to number 187 and click restore themes functionality

Save the file, probably best to your own pen drive, if not, then to a seldom used folder on the PC

Right click the file, click merge, confirm you want to add it

Enjoy XP theme for the day

herman2811

santer wrote: »

Click the word here in post 7

Scroll down to number 187 and click restore themes functionality

Save the file, probably best to your own pen drive, if not, then to a seldom used folder on the PC

Right click the file, click merge, confirm you want to add it

Enjoy XP theme for the day

Couldn't get this to work - came up with the message "not all data was successfully written to the registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."

Didn't have anything else open.

herman2811

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

You log in as administrator, go into control panel > users and then change yours from a standard user to an administrator. But it probably won't make any difference to be honest, you'll be in an Organisational Unit that has a group policy assigned that sets the theme, background, screen saver etc and tells the system what you can see. So even if your username is an administrator on the machine, the group policy will over ride it.

Tried this as well, but for some reason I wasn't in the list of users?! Perhaps because I'm a user on the network rather than a user of the PC?

scheming_gypsy

Oops yep sorry.. You'll be a domain user, you'll have a local profile but not a local account

santer_2

Probably worth asking them to change it

scheming_gypsy

it's unlikely they will though.. it'll be company wide so everything looks the same

herman2811

So no other options then?

scheming_gypsy

There is one...

Log in as administrator and create a local account on the machine for you with the same credentials as your network account (so you have localmachine\user and domain\user), give it admin rights and the same password as your network account. If you log onto the local machine with your local account you should bypass the Group Policy and then you can map your network drives manually.

it should work but i'm taking a forced holiday away from support at the minute so i can't remember if it will kick up any problems or not

scheming_gypsy

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

it should work but i'm taking a forced holiday away from support at the minute so i can't remember if it will kick up any problems or not

ok, i'm lying. I've just has a call back from an old employer and they want me to go back for contract number 5