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Restore orinigal windows theme

February 15, 2012 10:38:52 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I found myself spending too much time customizing my computer so I removed windowblinds which caused the loss of almost all of my icons. I reinstalled windowblinds and they're back. SO... How do I restore the original default Windows theme before removing windowblinds? Windows 7 x64.

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Reply #1 February 15, 2012 10:44:46 AM
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Open the WindowBlinds config, and apply the theme 'Windows classic'.
That will 'unload' WindowBlinds.

WindowBlinds doesnt affect your icons, in any way. Must be something else 'interferring'.

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Reply #2 February 15, 2012 10:46:30 AM
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Apply one of these options (the Aero one, most likely):

This will get you back to your defaults.

Also, when you say you lost your icons, do you mean the images were blank?  Or were the files themselves not there?  Was this just on the Desktop?  I'm asking because this is very odd behavior to have connected with WindowBlinds.  IconPackager I could understand, but WindowBlinds...?

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Reply #3 February 15, 2012 10:48:26 AM
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WindowBlinds doesn't affect icons.  Did you use MyColors or IconPackager?

Testing something unrealasted

 

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Reply #4 February 15, 2012 10:52:26 AM
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From the elevated command prompt, you can run  sfc /scannow (right click on cmd and 'run as administrator')... might help if msstyles type software is involved.

Also, the advice re: Icon restoration is good, and works.

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Reply #5 February 15, 2012 11:28:55 AM
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I did have iconpackager installed, and I see it's installed now, even though I didn't knowingly install it. So, how do I deal with iconpackager? Yeah, the icons are just blank. Pure heii on the quick launch.

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Reply #6 February 15, 2012 11:44:39 AM
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If all the icons are blank in IconPackager, then I suggest you go to cmd (type it in your start menu) andd then right click on it. Then choose 'run as administrator and type in  sfc /scannow

Allow that to run. Then try IconPackager again as in the screenie above.

If that doesn't help, please reply and we can try something else.

You can, if that doesn't work download W7 icons free here:  http://www.windows7icons.com/

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Reply #7 February 15, 2012 11:52:19 AM
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Using Internet Explorer (other browsers won't handle the download correctly), download the appropriate file for your computer:

32-bit: http://sd.stardock.com/Rosco/fixes/blank_icons32.bat
64-bit: http://sd.stardock.com/Rosco/fixes/blank_icons64.bat

Save to your desktop, then right click on the file and select 'Run as Administrator' if you're on Vista/7, or just run it if you're on XP.  There may be some 'module could not be found' errors, which is normal.  Then reboot your computer.

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Reply #8 February 15, 2012 1:39:59 PM
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You rock Doc! Applying the default windows icons in iconpackager did the trick!

 

THANKS!

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Reply #9 February 15, 2012 2:28:46 PM
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Welcome badamsiyns... Thanks to Rosco_P and Zubaz, as well. I just got lucky. They know what they're doing.

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Reply #10 February 15, 2012 2:35:21 PM
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Quoting DrJBHL,
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They know what they're doing.

Yes.  We totally know what we're doing.  That fire was totally not our fault.  Eyebrows grow back, right?

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Reply #11 February 15, 2012 2:52:13 PM
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Quoting Rosco_P,
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Yes. We totally know what we're doing. That fire was totally not our fault. Eyebrows grow back, right?
And by "not our fault" we mean that we may have had some interaction with fire at some point.

 

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