Change Theme to default Windows 7 Theme

[samwells1234]

Hi All,

 

I need help with changing the theme back to the default windows 7 theme. The issue is that some staff now load up in a windows 95 style theme. The reason why I had a play about was because staff needed a red task bar and students were going to have the default blue task bar so we could see if a student was logged on as a member of staff. I don't know what its done but it won't go back even when I removed the group policy. I'm using server 2008 R2.

 

Please Help

[3s-gtech]

We had to go through a few fun things to force the Windows 7 Aero theme. Once it's set per user, it's a swine to change even with GP. In the end, we found a registry setting that helps to force it (while keeping the GP settings in place).

 

Set this as a GPP Registry setting (User Configuration).

 

Action Update 
Properties
Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER 
Key path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization 
Value name ThemeFile 
Value type REG_SZ 
Value data %systemroot%\Resources\themes\aero.theme 

 

This ensured that Aero (with Glass) was set, even when the graphics driver had bugged out previously and set their user profile to Basic theme.

[samwells1234]

see I cant find the personalization part in the key path section

[samwells1234]

I can go as far as Software\policies\Microsoft\Windows\. There is no personalization part :-/

[3s-gtech]

You can create it though, and if you're administering it from the server remember that the registry paths may be different on clients.