This advice also helps with the disappearing Aero problem. I will show you how to Personalize the color scheme for your Vista Aero graphics. The classic theme is caused by winlogon.exe crashing.How to Personalize Vista’s Windows AERO Graphics The basic theme in that video is caused by dwm.exe crashing. If you want a working explorer then use 8.1 with the classic theme. Windows 10’s explorer will break under the classic theme. If you want explorer in the classic theme restart it. Also, do NOT restart explorer.exe.įor the classic theme, simply kill any themesection handles in winlogon.exe and then newly launched apps will have the classic theme. WARNING: THIS BREAKS A LOT OF STUFF INCLUDING THE UI. Just kill all modern apps, suspend sihost.exe, kill explorer.exe, suspend winlogon.exe, and then kill dwm.exe using your preferred task manager. LeonardoIannelliRETRIEVES wrote:As you can see in this video by TechnologicalByte (at 10:53), Windows 10 can switch to Windows Vista/7's Windows Basic theme if certain system files are deleted. If one of you finds out how to get the Windows Basic and Windows Classic themes in Windows 10 (preferrably version 1909 or 2004), be sure to tell me about it in this thread. Being able to customize the appearance like that would be awesome.

were to be ported over from Windows Vista/7.

I think it would be really cool if the theme customization control panel, which let you change various aspects of themes like the desktop background color, title bar size, etc. I know of a tweak that allows you to get the Windows Classic theme on Windows 10, but that appears to be adding new functionalities rather than modifying existing ones. Using a similar technique you might be able to unlock a Windows Classic theme as well, since the video I mentioned above also shows Windows Vista/7's fallback theme on Windows 10, which is a derivative of the Windows Classic theme as far as I can tell. This would only change things like window borders, since the taskbar's appearance (apart from color) isn't changed with themes like in Windows 7. I don't mean using a custom theme installed by patching uxtheme.dll and stuff, I mean actually unlocking the hidden Basic theme. I'm wondering if it would be possible to force Windows 10 to use the Basic theme without breaking the OS like that. As you can see in this video by TechnologicalByte (at 10:53), Windows 10 can switch to Windows Vista/7's Windows Basic theme if certain system files are deleted.

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