[ShamusHand]

Michael over at AeroXP forums posted the solution to your Vista visual style woes! Tired of browsing endlessly through Visual Styles and applying them until you find the one you want? Well fret no longer!

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DeskHack for Windows Vista - Version 1.0

This run-time hack fixes the hardcoded strings of
Vista's Desktop Settings Control Panel (desk.cpl)
for all Visual Styles (but not Aero.msstyles *g*).
So you can rename your Styles by hacking the
name.

If a .msstyles is not properly hacked, the file's
basename is used instead of the style description.


Install

RMB "DeskHack_Install.cmd" "Run as Administrator".

Changes in 1.1:
Whenever the resources (like .msstlyes.mui) where
broken, the name would not have been shown, now
in 1.1 it simply takes the filename then.

Download:
Here
Here Thanks to TaeX
Here
Here Thanks to timbertide

[timbertide]

Guests can't download the file from there so I've uploaded it here:
Download Link: VistaDeskHack_1.1.zip

[punkrockerz]

Thank you for the link and info

[SharmanNet]

It works! Thanks a lot

[ShamusHand]

timbertide, on Jun 18 2007, 05:23 PM, said:

Guests can't download the file from there so I've uploaded it here:
Download Link: VistaDeskHack_1.1.zip

Thanks, I forgot about that

[cmkumar2k]

thankU

[butch123]

Thank you for the link...

[M.Sudoku]

Interesting, thanks for the link.

[ThunderROM]

Really nice and useful! I'll give it a try.

[Seventh Surfer]

Really nice program, thanks for sharing.

[Razor VinT]

Very useful hack, thanks a lot.

[Ultimate John]

Really useful for Vista users! Thanks Michael for the hack.

[Freka]

Thank you very much!

[Massy]

awesome!!!!

[Dr. Doom]

nice, but I'm using TuneUp to apply them... the point is that TuneUp is naming them automatic, not like:
Vista Aero
Vista Basic
Vista Aero
Vista Basic

It's naming them like this:
Vista Aero
Media Center
Aero Clear
VistaXT

It doesn't show the useless Basic Themes, but gives real names to other styles so it's not a problem to find a style.

Anyway... thanks for the link, it's very usefull for people that are living without TuneUp Utilities 2007.