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    Vista Visual Master screwed me over

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by DeafWord, Aug 6, 2009.

  1. DeafWord

    DeafWord Newbie

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    I've been trying to figure out how to change my theme on vista for the enitre night now, and I finally got refferenced to Vista Visual Master, which is supposed to make things easy. I understand that I needed to update a file for me to put in a new theme, and I'm pretty sure the program was supposed to do it by it's self. But when I went to the theme section of the program, there was red text at the top that said "Your theme files can't be patched, for it may have been modified by another program." I don't know what came over me, but I felt the need to click around the menu 'till I figured it out. So I clicked on the check box for the option "Transparentize titlebar when maximise windows". A little window popped up which said "Do you want to edit the current theme?" to which I clicked yes. Another window popped up, which said "You can resume to patch theme, but it will not take effect until the system is patched." to which I also clicked yes. This was the part where I realized I had made a dire mistake. My taskbar and just about everything else got changed to this ( http://pic.piccdrop.com/i/2/1249539752.jpg). It is of the essence that I learn how to undo my extremely stupid act ASAP. Any help, AT ALL, would be greatly appreciated.
     
  2. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    have you tried system restore yet?
    Picture doesn't load for me, takes forever and page never loads.
     
  3. Sahugani

    Sahugani Notebook Consultant

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    the first thing to do is system restore to before this mess and then grab vista glazz and use it to patch the files and apply themes to your leisure.
     
  4. DeafWord

    DeafWord Newbie

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    I've looked up vista glazz, and if I understand correctly, you need Vista Aero, which is only one premium, buisness, and ultimate. I have basic, so no aero for me, which I think means I can't use this program.

    Also, tried system restore twice, one from the 29th, the other from the 31st, and they both didn't work (it said something about an undiscernable reason for not working on a little pop-up window when I rebooted)
     
  5. DeafWord

    DeafWord Newbie

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    Nevermind, this fix was so easy, I'm really embarrassed to say what the solution was ._. All I had to do was go into my control panel, then to customization and appearence, and mess with my color scheme a bit to get it back to what it was -_-'. Sorry about all the trouble guys, but thanks for the help anyway!