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How do you remove a theme?

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by pattownsend 1 view

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I downloaded and installed a theme from the www to my Windows 2000 PC. I've tried themes.exe but I can't get my desktop back to no theme.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

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by phiw

If there isn't a Windows default theme listed, you'll probably have to change the settings manually. Most of the theme settings are shortcuts to preferences in the Display, Mouse, and Sounds/Multimedia control panels, and most of these can be set to Windows Default settings in their respective control panels (especially Display->Appearance, Mouse->Pointers, and Sounds/Multimedia->Sounds). Once you get these changed back, you may want to save the settings as a new theme from themes.exe and call it "Windows Standard" or something similar if you want to contine to use themes.exe in the future. Hope this helps!

by mike (from canada)

I do. You can reset any user setting. All you do is enter the registry and double click hkey_current_user. Now you can see what you can reset. you see things like "Display", "Mouse", etc. so if u wanted to reset the display settings, erase the "Display" key. If you want to reset a particular setting double click the key and then delete that setting. To erase ALL your settings, delete everything under hkey_current_user.

by pattownsend

This answer helped me understand how the settings look in the registry. And may help me in a future emergency. However, I found it more difficult than the previous answer and the previous gave me a method I can use to easily handle themes in the future.

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