nan | 楠木

To enhance productivity, I’ve been trying many desktop softwares this week. I was formerly quite a user of StyleXP, but this week I decided to try some other softwares.

Yesterday I installed Windowblinds, which instantly made my windows very cool-looking. Problem was, it was only a trial version. And there were some glitches here and there when running on my thinkpad.

I downloaded some vsstyles myself, but apart from Royale, which is a official theme from MS, all the others could not be loaded via Display.

So I snooped around a bit, and found out about uxtheme.dll, which really is the linchpin to the issue.

So I renamed the original uxtheme.dll under windows\system32\, and duefully copied the new uxtheme.dll. Somehow something was wrong. Though I rebooted, still nothing happened when I tried a 3rd party vsstyles.

Hmm, by looking at the file in the system32 folder, it appears that I was unsuccessful in replacing it.

Some more googling.

Then I learnt that there’s something called the dll cache. And you can manually purge this cache:

SFC /purgecache

After this process, I was successful in replacing the dll.

And now, I’ve got some fancy desktops. Not too bad.

BTW, http://www.deviantart.com is a great site for downloading such resources.