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Before starting, make sure you have a favourite visual style in use, if you change your theme it is likely you'll have to go through this again, no biggie as we are making a file to run and enter the data into the registry, so anytime you change your theme, just run the file!
Open up the Registry Editor by going to Start -> Run -> and typing regedit followed by enter. Browse to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager
Right click on ThemeManager and choose Export, and then save the reg file anywhere you like, with any name. I called mine ThemingShutdown
Edit your saved registy file in Notepad and edit the following line:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager
so that it says:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager
Save the file, and then execute your registry file. Now shut down and see your work
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I'm not sure if this works on all Operating systems but it worked on my Server 2003 as well as XP (it's home converted to professional).
Thanks for Modding with Jay
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