windows theme problem

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Recently i replaced the windows theme file with a custom one so that non-microsoft themes work and ive managed to get a nice black theme, but ive noticed a problem today and need help.

On some websites im having a problem with the theme colours effecting websites. Like the open university website has a light coloured background, but now its showing up as dark grey like my new start menu background colour. But not everything is changed, so some websites or areas on website stay their normal colour but text is still black, which is impossible to read on a dark grey background.

I realy dont want to switch back to the default windows theme, as that would mean my opera theme would now longer match and would have to change that back to default as well, and im quite fed up of the default themes so would like to fix this problem without going back to default if possible.
 
That sounds very odd - I've never known a theme to change the way websites look, aside from the difference in drop-down box buttons etc.

Have you tried any other custom themes to see if they exhibit similar problems?
 
I'm a bit confused as to how a Windows theme change has affected how websites render. Sounds to me like you used the UX Theme patcher util. That right?

You could stick your XP cd in and do a repair, that should fix the theme back to normal. And then try the UX Theme patcher again.
 
I just set both my opera and xp theme back to defaul and neither helped the problem (i changed opera theme back incase that was the issue). Yes i did use the UXtheme patcher and custom themes from devientart.

Only other thing i can think that may be the cause as settings windows them to default didnt help, would be the custom css i used to change these forums to a dark grey/black theme, but i have no idea how that would effect other websites as i only set this site to use it, and it only happened around the time i used the custom xp themes.
 
What browser are you using? It is possible that the custom css applies to other sites that use the same forum software as OcUK if the css isn't specifically set for OcUK only.
 
I use opera. On these forums the display settings ive set it to use ocuk.css, if i go to the same settings page on another website, like the OU site, it says its using user.css so it is using a different css file (user.css being the default).
 
Ah OK. Thats a good answer that! I also use Opera and you've set it up right.

So I'm still confused, how a Windows theme can affect browsers. :confused:
 
I just checked the OU website with internet explorer and im having the same problem there too. so its not a opera theme, or css issue, its defenatly to do with windows.
 
Right. Good work Dist! :)

Might I suggest seeing if UX Theme patcher has a restore function? I've used it before but not for ages so I can't remember. :o

If that doesn't work, try repairing XP by using the repair function on your XP cd. That should detect the dll file changed by the UX theme patcher and restore it to the original.

Then see how Windows/browsers look then.
 
if the patcher is run with the custom ux theme file then it will revert that file to the standard XP file. I cant try it right now since it involves a reset, but when i get the chance ill try it and let you know how it turned out.
 
well i finaly had time to do a restart, and it has indeed solved my problems. So im not sure how, but that custom UXtheme.dll Not only adjusted my windows stuff like titlebar, startmenu etc... but it was deffenatly that custom theme file that somehow changed my websites as well.
 
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