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Monday, May 19, 2003 at 6:24 pm
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Posted by Stevix (1 messages posted)

Go to Control Panel Administrative Tools, Services, and make sure "Themes are turned on and set this service to Automatic. This will work. Stevix

On Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 7:06 pm, Mike wrote:
>I had the same problem and resolved it by doing the following:
>
>1St) In file explorer, Tools, Folder Options check to make sure of the following:
>
>a) Check the check box for "Show hidden Files".
>b) Uncheck both checkboxes for: Hide Extensions of Known file types and Hide protected
>operating system files.
>
>This will ensure that you will be able to find the file outlined below however, be
>sure to recheck these boxes afterwards to
>
>protect them.
>
>2) Go to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and locate a file: "Luna.theme" and double click
>on it.
>
>The appearance screen will come up showing "Windows XP Style". Click on apply.
>
>Note: I also created a short cut to this file on my desktop just incase this happens
>again.
>I do not know what caused the problem to begin with however, this did fix the problem
>for me.
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Mike: Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 7:06 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Taniniver: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:09 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Kevin P: Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 5:14 pm)

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Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Al: Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 4:33 pm)

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re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Al: Wed, Jan 29, 2003, 11:37 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Bill: Sat, May 11, 2002, 9:26 am)

here is the answer, (Toyjan: Sat, Apr 15, 2006, 5:26 am)

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re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Al: Wed, Jan 29, 2003, 11:36 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Karen: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 6:37 am)

Re: To all the people who still need an answer to this ''Apperance'' (Greg: Sun, Mar 30, 2003, 1:22 am)

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re: Re: To all the people who still need an answer to this ''Apperance'' (Marshall: Mon, Feb 23, 2004, 12:19 am)

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The problem is with theThemes Service (Jetheat: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 6:57 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar is windows classic instead of XP.. (Kurt Wenneman: Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 4:55 pm)

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