How to patch Windows for custom themes.

If you’re bored with the way windows looks with the aero themes or even with the basic windows xp look then why not give it a new look.

The easiest way to customize the look of your windows system would be to download something like Stardock’s WindowBlinds and download themes from Wincustomize and then apply them with just a few clicks.

That’s one way of doing it but there is another way you can do it and get access to even more themes for windows, all you have to do is patch a few files in windows and thanks to a program called Vistaglazz, it’s very easy to patch the needed files.

When you’ve downloaded the program and want to use it, make sure you right click on it and click on run as administrator as just double clicking it won’t make it work. You’ll see four buttons on the main window but the only one you’ll need is the first one. Go ahead and click on that icon (the computer icon) and it will tell you if your files have been patched or if they need to be patched for you to be able to use other themes.

All you need to do now is just click on the patch files button and it will do it all for you, once it’s done, just restart your computer and you’re finished! If you want to know if it has worked or not then just open up Vistaglazz again, click on the first icon and see if it tells you if your files have been patched or not.

Once this has been done, you can now download and install visual styles for windows, just do a Google search for visual styles and you should find some right away. One of the sites I usually look at for styles is Deviantart.com as it has a pretty good selection.

When downloading styles, make sure they work on your system, you don’t want to download a windows xp style when you’re running windows vista or windows 7 as it won’t work. You can search Google for various tutorials on how to apply these themes and get them up and running but I may post one myself at some point.

Hope this helped!