windows theme problem

Dist · 8 Sep 2007 at 21:36

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.

Dist · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:29

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.

Dist · 8 Sep 2007 at 23:11

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).

Dist · 8 Sep 2007 at 23:28

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.

Dist · 9 Sep 2007 at 00:04

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.

Dist · 14 Sep 2007 at 22:12

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.